I teach various core courses in the communication and media program at njit. current work in social media and ubiquitous computing provides the pedagogical framework for graduate level study in the masters program for professional and technical writing.
media technologies and the literary arts
critical study of communication and media technologies begins by recognising them together as constituting one of the more important legacies of industrial society’s ongoing social, economic and political investment in both scientific and cultural knowledge. the courses I have developed and taught in the communication and media program acknowledge first and foremost the important epistemological issues that continue to link the earliest alphabetic scripts to today’s vast array of electronic media formats. full course descriptions and outlines can be downloaded at this site when hosted by njit.
- our program begins formally with an introduction to mass media and its historical development over the last two centuries as an economic, cultural and political framework of knowledge - communication theory: COM302.
- a special video narrative course introduces students to different video-based, multimedia environments in order to develop new strategies for both reading and writing within our increasingly screen-oriented culture. - video narrative: COM303.
- one of the most valuable elements of the com/media program is its capacity to interpret and analyze media from a literary-centred discipline, while providing critical perspectives on electronic/programmable forms of writing. this course challenges us to engage with these technologies both creatively and critically as individual producers: where the poets meet perl - Electronic Writing Workshop: COM390.
- our new graduate course investigates electronic media as a new social environment, building upon the online participation of students at both collective and individual levels of practice. with the help of such popular web formats, as blogs, wikis, chat, Twitter and virtual worlds, the course engages with primary scholarship on the relationship between mediated communication and human community - Social Media, Theory and Practice: MSPTC629
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