COMM 7006 - New and Emerging Media

3 cr

As an ongoing response to the rapidly advancing field of Communications Media, New and Emerging Media integrates the study, production, and practice of using emergent media that is changing our increasingly immersive media environment and necessitates a new lens for our shifting cultural landscape. Taking a hands-on approach, students explore and discover pioneering media en route to conceptualizing, producing and then using innovative prototypes of their own. This progressive course utilizes a variety of methods, including seminar discussion, reading and applying communication theory, kinesthetic use of devices, research and analysis of new and emerging kinds of media, the use of novel communication technologies, and the development of a capstone project.