[Air-L] Understanding Social Media

[Glassman, Michael]

I wonder if people have thought about throwing out written materials and treating social media not only as the topic but as the means of the course?  Provide students with interesting links about social media.  Forward them interesting discussion from this and other interesting lists.  Have them follow interesting scholars through Twitter or an SNS and have them bring links back to the class (and yes I have taught a course like this, but not on Social Media).  Most of the best stuff I have read recently I have found through links not through books.

A new type of education for a new age.

Michael
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From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Kelly Quinn [kquinn8 at uic.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 1:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] Understanding Social Media

Hi Kayla,

I teach a course in social media and, like Marj, find that it is really
difficult to cover all of the related topics. I organize the course around
four 'themes': privacy, copyright, digital inclusion and political
participation.

Last semester, I used Mandiberg's Social Media Reader as a source of
foundational material--good material for a grad student course. But I also
have found it neccessary to supplement quite a bit with additional
readings. I am happy to share my syllabus off-list if it would be helpful.

Kindest regards,

Kelly Quinn

--
Kelly Quinn, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Illinois at Chicago



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