Jul 03, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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MDIA 4011 - Media and the Digital Divide
The course steeps the student in some of the most current literature on the quicksilver proliferation of new technologies throughout the world, with emphasis on who has access, command, and knowledge about these technologies and who is lacking and why. Readings explore the contours of the Digital Divide as it shapes and is shaped by culture amid shifting cultural and geopolitical climates.
Requisites: Sr only
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- 1. Students should achieve an understanding of the role of the Digital Divide in the world and in particular geographical, technological and social contexts of special interest to the student (e.g., Appalachia, children, cellular technologies).
- 2. Students will learn to critically analyze written as well as various media-related materials (e.g. television news reports, newspaper articles, government reports, websites) related to the course topic.
- 3. Students will conduct original research that examines a digital divide topic. They will clearly express ideas developed through this research in a final paper and an oral presentation.
- 4. Students will develop an appreciation of the historical components, as well as the diversity of demographic and geographic circumstances, related to media and the digital divide.
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