Information Technology and Social Media
Field Description Revolutionary advances in the speed and capacity of information transmission can blind us to thinking that we are living in the first information revolution, but students studying IT and social media need to be aware of the earlier social and technological revolutions of the printed book, the telegraph, the radio, the telephone, and the television, among others. Students interested in this research field should enroll in History and Information courses to understand both how the social character of information has changed across time and space, as well