VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES & SOCIAL MEDIA

PREREQUISITE: ENGL1012 OR ENGL1012H
This course will assist the student in examining virtual communities from the perspective of issues related to social media tools. Some areas that will be examined include ethical values, regulations/laws, free speech, content controls, intellectual properties, privacy, security, and safety in virtual communities. We will discuss what we mean by virtual community and how we encourage, discuss, analyze, understand, design, and participate in healthy communities in the age of many-to-many social media. Students will need the willingness to immerse in social media practices and develop a notion of how these practices affect self and community.