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My TA course assignment:

Course Number: ASIA 3410 (CS3410)

Course Name: New Media

Course Description:

This course offers a unique blend of communication and development studies, policy analysis, and technology based innovation research. New Media is a global phenomenon, emerged in late 20^th century, which symbolizes the near omnipresence of on-demand media content across the world. New Media encompasses online social networking, voice and data based communications, and digital audio-visual contents. It works as a catalyst of wide scale media convergence in every sphere of human society. This course looks into history of New Media, its place in global communication anthology, its present socio-economic impacts on developed as well as developing countries, and the participatory and “democratic” nature of its information dissemination process. Major issues related to Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Social Mobilization, Empowerment, Right to Information and the possible roles of New Media on defining those will also be discussed, based on contemporary case studies (e.g. Arab Spring, London Riot, WikiLeaks, Facebook, 4G Network, etc.). Finally, this course focuses on the key challenges and opportunities of New Media in the coming years, especially from the Global South’s perspective.

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