COM 314 Digital Journalism in a Global Context
Recent developments in media technologies from Big Data to Artificial Intelligence, corporate structure such as the rise of journalists' networks and consortia, and the organization of public life have hugely impacted the practice of journalism in the "global village." This course explores the shifting landscape of journalism, with an eye toward how these developments affect journalism’s role in society. The course will also introduce the students to the techniques of journalism in digital media and offer them conceptual and practical tools with which to navigate the Infosphere. By the end of the course, students should have a clear sense of the various ways journalists have taken up digital media and a broad understanding of the ways in which recent social and economic developments have changed both the practice of journalists and the nature of a public nowadays contended between "globalization" and "glocalization."