Filed under : Social Media on October 24, 2007
From the Wall Street Journal
“After years of worrying about how much time freshmen spend on Facebook, schools are incorporating the study of social networking, online communities and user-contributed content into new curricula on social computing. The moves, like other academic expansions into fields like videogame design, are part of an effort to keep technology studies relevant to students’ lives – and to tap subjects with entrepreneurial momentum.”
A sampling of courses at different colleges and universities that address social media:
- Designing Sociable Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- eCommunities: Analysis and Design of Online Interaction Environments, University of Michigan
- Online Identity, Social and Community Behavior, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Social Networks and Social Processes, Cornell University
- After Google, What? Information Management and the Academic Enterprise in a Networked Digital Age, University of California at Berkeley
Leave a Reply