JOUR 102: Navigating Social Media

Course Description

Provides a broad understanding of the role that big tech companies and their platforms play in everyday life. Through seminars and guided workshops, students will gain both the practical skills to explore social media data and the critical criteria to reflect on issues such as digital activism, digital surveillance, algorithmic inequality, privacy, digital property rights, monopoly and antitrust, changes in the news industry, and mis/disinformation. Credit not given for JOUR 102 if credit already received for JOUR 199 section "Social Media".