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Media Technology Ethics:

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley

JOUR 575 / 580

Dates: January 4-8 and 11-15, 2021

Credit Hours: 3

Instructor: Cynthia Joyce, Associate Professor of Journalism

Cost: This is a virtual course with no travel planned at this time. Tuition rates are the traditional costs for UM 3-hour undergraduate course. Non-resident fees will be charged if applicable.*

Application Deadline: December 11, 2020

* Students will be attending the virtual Consumer Electronics Show; if there is a cost associated with registration, students will be billed to fully participate in the course.

Registration Closed

  • Attend sessions during the virtual Consumer Electronics Show 2021, one of the world’s largest tech conferences.
  • Meet with current employees at Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Medium.
  • Hear from top tech reporters who cover Silicon Valley.
  • Study the integration of technology into our everyday lives, and the unintended impacts of that integration.
  • Look critically at the social media tool they use.

Itinerary subject to change.

Dates:

Students will attend class virtually from January 4-8 and 11-15, 2021

Location:

Virtual

This course is open to all majors. Students who might be interested include Journalism and IMC majors, Liberal Arts students, and Computer Science students.

Prerequisites: None

TBD + Tuition. Students will be attending the virtual Consumer Electronics Show, if there is a cost associated with registration, students will be billed to fully participate in the course.

This is a virtual course; no travel is planned at this time. Students will need a reliable internet connection, access to a laptop, web camera, and microphone to participate in the course.