Teaching Areas
- New media and technologies
- Theories of communication technology & society
- Global media, technology governance & policies
- Communication theories
- Communication research methods (digital methods)
Regular Course Offerings
Media Technologies: Form, Feeling, Force (COMM6000-T90, Graduate) This course examines three major topics related to media technologies: media forms (media history and ecology), media and human expressions (media viewed as extensions of the human spirit), and media as a social and political force (technology, power, activism and democracy).
Theories of Communication Technology & Society (COMM6000-T90, Graduate) Media ecology and history (e.g. printing press, broadcast media, the internet, AI), theoretical perspectives (e.g. functionalism, cultural studies, political economy, postmodernism, postcolonialism), and praxis (e.g. technology governance, ethics).
Communication Theory (COMM6101, Graduate): This course examines a wide range of communication theories grounded in rhetorical, semiotic, phenomenological, cybernetic, sociopsychological, sociocultural, critical, postmodern/poststructuralist, feminist, and postcolonial traditions.
Communication Research Methods: Online & Offline (COMM6000-T90, Graduate) Internet as artifact, archive and social space; rationales for research online or offline; research ethics; data collection, analysis and presentation online and offline (ethnography, interviewing, content analysis, survey, data scraping, basics of data visualization and analytics); research currents and innovations (social media, big data).
Advanced Topics in Media & Technology Studies – Media Technologies & Society (COMM4652, Undergraduate): multiple semesters; typically 30 students in a class. Topics cover evolution of media technologies (from printing press to AI), media ecology, media culture, and technology governance.
Advanced Topics in Media & Technology Studies – Global Media (COMM4652, Undergraduate): multiple semesters; typically 35 students each semester. Topics cover globalization, global media systems, global culture, and global internet governance.
Media Technology & Communication (COMM3120, Undergraduate) Topics cover media ecology, media theories & perspectives (e.g. semiotic, political economy, psychoanalytical, sociological), Internet governance, media professions and praxis.
Global Media (COMM3127, Undergraduate, cross-listed with International Studies) Topics cover globalization, media ecology, Internet governance, and global culture.
Media Technology & Society (COMM3052 Undergraduate) Topics cover media ecology, mass media, new/social media, media culture, and Internet governance.
Communication Research Methods (COMM3100, Undergraduate) Topics cover qualitative & quantitative methods in research design & implementation. Writing intensive.