COMM 370 - World Wide Web as Mass Medium

Units: 3

Examines the development of the World Wide Web and multimedia computing, as textual, graphic, video, and audio mass media. Students examine the personal, commercial, educational, and entertainment uses of the World Wide Web. They also examine the social and cultural contexts of the World Wide Web-particularly how the information it distributes reflects social, economic, and political power related to gender, race, social class, ethnicity, education, and other social groupings. Students will have the opportunity to develop their own web pages and to create audio and video segments for those pages. (MC)