JOUR 110 Media, Technology and Society

(1 Term; 3 Credits)

This course examines the roles of newspapers, magazines, radio and television with their social, economic and political effects on the individual with society, and the emergence of new communication technologies. Emphasis is laid on interactions between media, technology and society. Factors that lead people to use communication technologies, the needs that these technologies fill, and the effects of using technologies at the individual, organizational and societal levels will be discussed.