Hi Steve, First, I searched high and low for a good new media/Internet text that would not get dated too quickly. I teach a New Media, New World broad topic/theory course (4 units, upper division in a Communication Studies department). I suggest Meikle, G. and Young, S. (2012). *Media convergence: Networked digital media in everyday life*. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-0-230-22894-8, ISBN10: 0-230-22894-1. Students love it and it is meta enough that it encompasses newer developments. The more technical and fast changing specifics, I found, are best left to workshops or industry/popular press sources (eg. Wired; Economist). Being able to switch out or update parts since I have to update the damn thing every time I teach it (sometimes in the middle, if you catch by bitcoin)! Here is my course website (you can access most of it - no student data): https://sjsu.instructure.com/courses/1070676 As far as what platform to use, I suggest Canvas (which is what we use at SJSU). It is (IMHO) the best learning platform going and easy to use. They have a free for teachers version anyone can use on their website www.instructure.com. I teach an extra class online for the University of Louisville (KY) and they use Blackboard (hate it!) and I just started using the free Canvas version and am much happier. I have a multiple choice quiz bank for Meikle and Young I can send you. -TED On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Steven Epstein <epsteis@sunysuffolk.edu>wrote:
I'll be teaching a section of a course, Computer Mediated Communication, in the Fall and would like recommendations for textbooks, readers, and other material.
The person who has been teaching the course at my school has used Online Communication by Wood & Smith. But, since this was last revised in 2005, it is a bit dated. Also, I'd really like to use a text that has a robust companion web site, test item file and/or PPTs.
As the class is housed in the Department of Communications, I will be exploring the social effects of different computer-supported communication technologies. However, I will, via text or other material, want to expose the students to the "workings" of some CMC. That might be participating in self help groups on Face Book or Yahoo Groups, developing a Blog with Word Press, editing articles on Wikipedia or even doing some simple HTML coding. So, in addition to textbook ideas, I'd love additional ideas for projects and exercises.
Feel free to post ideas to the list or send directly to me.
Thanks
Steve
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