New Media at the Lebanese American University

we dove headfirst into blogging and tweeting and have been active regularly over the last three weeks.  we covered the concepts, the basics, the platforms, the why, the how, the when,…blogged regularly, tweeted actively, and are pretty excited about where all of this is heading.

to stay more up-to-date with how the class is going, do peak at:

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• lausocial netvibes page aggregates all the class blog posts, comments on blog posts, class tweets, and other links of interest

• lausocial wiki that holds information about class content and material covered in class, student blogs and twitter accounts, assignments, tips and links, student twitter list,…

• on twitter, look for the hashtag #lausocial

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so feel free to comment, tweet, DM, @reply, or email us with any questions and concerns !

the media landscape of the 20th century had the gutenberg press, two-way communication (telegraph, telephone), recorded media (sound, pictures, video), and sound and video signals broadcast through the air in the form of radio and tv.

in the 21st century the media landscape has changed dramatically with the Internet as a unified medium for all communication. the content generation cycle has shifted. user interaction has been completely redefined.  the long standing tried-and-true business models have collapsed.

as the media moguls of the 20th century struggle to evolve, the educational system needs to play a crucial role in empowering  a generation that will eventually become the driving force behind the changes of the media landscape.

for the first time in the middle east, a class in new media aimed towards communication arts students (journalism, radio, tv, film, and theater) is being offered at the Lebanese American University.

what better way to start the course than having the online community choose the name of the course ?

we crowdsourced the domain name and the hashtag of the course and had the twitterverse, our facebook friends, and members of the classroom collectively select their choice.

the result is www.lausocial.com and a twitter hashtag of #lausocial

vote process and results were as follows,

let the media landscape redefinition begin…with lausocial.com….