Wikipedia:USEP/Courses/New Media: Innovation, Community, and Dissidence (Adel Iskandar)

Course information

 * University: Georgetown University
 * Course title: New Media: Innovation, Community, and Dissidence
 * Professor name: Adel Iskandar
 * Professor's Wikipedia username:

Course description
The last decade has been marked by significant transformations in the way communication is forged by institutions and individuals. This course will focus on the theoretical premises of such trends and movements, the fashion by which they utilize media trends, their patterns and content. Readings and class discussions will examine the categorical definitions of radical, independent, alternative, social, network and user-produced media and their contextualization within local, global and hybrid locales. From the use of video-sharing portals for self-memorialization and historicization to major public events (e.g Twitter during and after the 2009 Iranian Presidential elections) to the utilization of microblogging both as commodification and subversion to authority, the course will explore how new media technology can be perceived/appropriated as simultaneously hegemonic and counterhegemonic.

Wikipedia assignment
Biopolitics--Cory Benavente's major edits Wikipedia page

RunKeeper--Corey McKeon's new Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runkeeper)

Media activism--Carrie Saracini's major edits

Goodreads--Emily Muth's major edits

Refinery29--Alisa Wiersema's major edits

Networked Feminism--Sarah Friedmann's new Wikipedia article

China Broadcast Corporation--Man Zhu's major edits (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gracemanman/China_broadcast_Corporation)

Student usernames
Student usernames should follow the ExampleUser format below.
 * Kommunication (talk) 14:29, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Corey McKeon (talk) 14:29, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Corey McKeon (talk) 14:29, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

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