Social Media in Learning Environments (SMILES)

Catalog description

This course examines collaborative and connected learning in social media environments, and how social media technologies shape how individuals and societies think and interact. Through reading, discussion, writing, and experimenting with communicating on different online platforms, students consider how these technologies impact learning, attention, beliefs, and social interaction; and consider questions of privacy, authorship, knowledge production, and ethics, particularly in an age of artificial intelligence and misinformation. Through projects, students apply course concepts, and critically engage with the possibilities of social media for designing for, and understanding how people learn.