COMM 308.01

This course is motivated in large part by the spirit of the open-source movement. Participatory culture, fans, gamers, bloggers and vloggers are challenging the dominant content of mainstream media and traditional notions of privacy and intellectual property. In this course we will complete projects that introduce and experiment with a variety of tools that enable collaboration and sharing. What is socially engaged citizenship in the context of open-source technology?
[Buzzwords: blogs, vlogs, wikis, online radio, podcasting, RSS feeds, del.icio.us, technorati, Indymedia, Wikipedia, open API, flickr, skype]

Pre-req Comm 225 or permission of instructor.