The era of mass media is giving way to one of personal and participatory media. This survey course will examine these changes and their likely long-term effects on both media companies and on society at large.
Coursework provides an overview of the burgeoning new fields of mobile media, social media, web publishing, blogging, animation, graphics and gaming. Lectures and class discussions cover basic media production, design, development, and marketing and include a survey of all the best web sites and technologies in this field. This course is the logical first step on the path to more study in the many fields of multimedia.
Course Outline
TOPIC #1 - Introdcution to multimedia
TOPIC #2 - Text Media and BLogs
TOPIC #3 - Security
TOPIC #4 - Search and Copyright
TOPIC #5 - Browsers
TOPIC #6 - Social Media
TOPIC #7 - Digital Audio, Video, & Animation
TOPIC #8 - Mobile Media