{"id":69,"date":"2013-08-07T13:14:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T13:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/min-jiang\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2024-09-15T01:03:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T01:03:54","slug":"teaching-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/min-jiang\/?page_id=69","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000\"><b>Teaching Areas<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New media and technologies<\/li>\n<li>Theories of communication technology &amp; society<\/li>\n<li>Global media, technology governance &amp; policies<\/li>\n<li>Communication theories<\/li>\n<li>Communication research methods (digital methods)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\"><b>Regular Course Offerings<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Media Technologies: Form, Feeling, Force <\/b>(<b>COMM6000-T90, <\/b>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).<\/p>\n<p><b>Theories of Communication Technology &amp; Society <\/b>(<b>COMM6000-T90, <\/b>Graduate)\u00a0 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).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Communication Theory <\/strong>(<strong>COMM6101, <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Communication Research Methods: Online &amp; Offline <\/b>(<b>COMM6000-T90, <\/b>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).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advanced Topics in Media &amp; Technology Studies \u2013 Media Technologies &amp; Society <\/strong>(<strong>COMM4652, <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advanced Topics in Media &amp; Technology Studies \u2013 Global Media <\/strong>(<strong>COMM4652, <\/strong>Undergraduate): multiple semesters; typically 35 students each semester. Topics cover globalization, global media systems, global culture, and global internet governance.<\/p>\n<p><b>Media Technology &amp; Communication (COMM3120, <\/b>Undergraduate<b>) <\/b>Topics cover media ecology, media theories &amp; perspectives (e.g. semiotic, political economy, psychoanalytical, sociological), Internet governance, media professions and praxis.<\/p>\n<p><b>Global Media<\/b> (<b>COMM3127, <\/b>Undergraduate, cross-listed with International Studies) Topics cover globalization, media ecology, Internet governance, and global culture.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Media Technology &amp; Society <\/b>(<b>COMM3052 <\/b>Undergraduate) Topics cover media ecology, mass media, new\/social media, media culture, and Internet governance.<br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Communication Research Methods<\/b> (<b>COMM3100, <\/b>Undergraduate) Topics cover qualitative &amp; quantitative methods in research design &amp; implementation. 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