Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Ontario Institute of Technology/New Media Theory and Practice (Fall)

The digital networking technologies exemplified by the Internet are no longer news. They are restructuring the global political economy of communications. The economics of news production is being disrupted. Individuals across the world are fueling social media technologies with user-generated content, even at the expense of their own privacy and speech protections. Digital divides are growing as well as evolving as the material difference between those with and without access to information grows. Popular online intermediaries like Google and Facebook are monetizing their gatekeeping market positions, taking advantage of ‘big data’ and becoming the new conglomerates of the global communications industry. Across the world, mobile phones and Internet platforms are empowering a generation and have been credited with aiding revolutions.

This course seeks to explore several questions in light of these changes:


 * What are some of the major theoretical questions preoccupying digital media and ICT scholars today?
 * To what extent are ICTs changing things for the better? For the worse?
 * What roles do the major players (industry, government, NGOs, the media, the public) have in ensuring a net benefit?
 * What can digital activism do to effect change?

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Articles to Edit:

Activism/Advocacy/NGO - Alliance for Community Media (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Community_Media) - Center for Media Justice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Media_Justice) - Wide Angle Youth Media (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Angle_Youth_Media)

Communication Studies - Early warning system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_warning_system) - Echo chambers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_%28media%29) - Political communication (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_communication) - Sport communication (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_communication)

Digital Media - 2010 Japan-South Korea Cyberwarfare (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Japan%E2%80%93South_Korea_cyberwarfare) - 2014 JPMorgan Chase data breach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_JPMorgan_Chase_data_breach) - Block (internet) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_%28Internet%29) - Cybermosaic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybermosaic) - Cyberspace Administration of China (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace_Administration_of_China) - Darknet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet) - Dark internet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Internet) - Digital Content (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_content) - Hacktic Netwerk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacktic_Netwerk) - Internet real estate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_real_estate) - Ottawa Internet Exchange (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Internet_Exchange) - Saudinet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudinet) - Syrian Computer Society (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Computer_Society)


 * The Future of the Internet (book) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_of_the_Internet)
 * The Google Story (book) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Google_Story)
 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Internet)
 * Two-way communication (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-way_communication)

International Communication - Telecom in Algeria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Algeria) - Telecom in Andorra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Andorra) - Telecom in Aruba (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Aruba) - Telecom in Cape Verde (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Cape_Verde) - Telecom in Estonia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Estonia) - Telecom in Georgia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Georgia_%28country%29) - Telecom in Hungary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Hungary) - Telecom in Italy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Italy) - Telecom in Liechtenstein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Liechtenstein) - Telecom in Luxembourg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Luxembourg) - Telecom in San Marino (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_San_Marino) - Telecom in the Czech Republic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_the_Czech_Republic) - Telecom in Uzbekistan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Uzbekistan) - Telecom in Zimbabwe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Zimbabwe)

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