[Air-L] Shared Resource - Social Media Research Theory Class

[Matei, Sorin Adam]

From Mass to Social Media: Contemporary Theories of Media Research



I created this course a number of years ago and I would like to take it “public.” Feel free to use for your own classes or to suggest ways to improve it…

https://matei.org/ithink/category/social-media-course-education/



Is old media dying? Will social media replace it? How does the social media revolution impact mass media research, both concerning theoretical and methodological approaches? What kinds of theories and methods can be used to explain the media landscape the emerges around us?



These are some of the issues that will be explored in this course.

The course is rooted in mass communication research, with side trips to sociological and social-psychological research. The goal is to offer a survey of the literature and to help the student acquire specific theoretical and practical toolkits for understanding and researching emerging forms of media and mediated communication.    A secondary goal is to demonstrate that media processes and institutions can also be surprisingly resilient.



Sorin Adam Matei
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