ACST 3540 - Social Media & Global Computing

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ACST 3150.
Coverage will include the fundamentals of building systems with new social media technologies and will explore how these technologies affect social, economic and political organization on a local and global scale. Topics will range from social networking, SMS, peer-to-peer networks, content aggregation technologies like portals and mashups, and media sharing functionalities like YouTube and Flickr. Activities will include the development of student designed wikis, mashups, peer-to-peer applications and web services.