ACST 3540:Social Media & Global Computing

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: (CSE 1322 and CSE 1322L) or ACST 2312
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.