Hosted by / Sponsored by: UC Berkeley

Course of Study: Media Studies

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Description: Watch and listen to over 25 webcast lectures from University of Berkeley, which explore New Media in American Cyber-Culture. Integral to the course is how different ethnicities access information and the impact on people’s pursuit of happiness and sense of success.

The course theorizes changes in media over the past 500 years, from early print to current technologies. Many issues are examined in relation to the  modern speed of producing information, how it is accessed, utilized and made available. Some topics include networking, GPS, social media, copyrighting and much more.

Hosted by / Sponsored by: MIT OpenCourseWare

Course of Study: Arts and Humanities

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Course Description: The theme of this intensive undergraduate/graduate course is literacy and new media. The “myth of literacy” is examined in the many complex contexts of media—from ancient Greek oral and written media to modern interactive technical media. Through theoretical readings and numerous media applications, students question assumptions about language, texts and contradictory definitions of literacy within social systems.

The course directly engages students in a long list of modalities and concepts—including online social networking, fan communities, video gaming, blogging, appropriation and remixing, multitasking, digital photography, animation and podcasting, transmedia navigation, performance, distributed cognition and collective intelligence.

The 25-lecture course includes notes and a comprehensive reading list, including many direct links to resources. Readings include Plato, Goody and Watt, Scribner and Cole, Graff, Brandt, Heath, Lemke, Gee, Alvermann, Jenkins, Hobbs, Pratt, Leander, Dyson, Levy, Kress, and Lankshear and Knobel.

Hosted by / Sponsored by: News University (NewsU.org)

Course of Study: Journalism / Media Studies

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Description: News University offers several free and low-cost online courses and seminars for journalists. This Multimedia Reporting course is free for registered users of the site.

This course takes one to two hours, and can be accessed on your own time with the ability to stop and later resume the module. Its aim is to help news organizations better implement multimedia reporting technologies in breaking news, by evaluating case studies of how six large news organizations used these tools during chaotic news situations such as coverage post-Hurricane Katrina.