SOCIAL MEDIA INSTRUCTION IN JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS HIGHER EDUCATION

dc.contributor.advisorSteiner, Lindaen_US
dc.contributor.authorAuxier, Brooke Elizabethen_US
dc.contributor.departmentJournalismen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-10T11:09:08Z
dc.date.available2012-10-10T11:09:08Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this research is to examine how university-level journalism programs throughout the country are teaching, utilizing, and confronting the new and developing topic of social media. Examined in this research is how journalism programs incorporate social media instruction into their curriculum, how they put it to practice on their program's website, and how and if their tracks or sequences have changed in name and content to reflect an industry shift towards digital, interactive and social media. The questions this thesis will answer are (1) how are journalism schools throughout the country are teaching social media, teaching with social media, and teaching about social media; (2) do social and new media have a place in journalism curricula; and (3) how do changes in the media industry and journalism school curricula coincide.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/12976
dc.subject.pqcontrolledJournalismen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMass communicationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHigher educationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledjournalism educationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrollednew mediaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsocial mediaen_US
dc.titleSOCIAL MEDIA INSTRUCTION IN JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATIONS HIGHER EDUCATIONen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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