MDIA 3122 - Content Curation

This class leads students through an emergent and intensifying field where practitioners innovatively filter, organize, present, and maintain aggregated web content. As industries and consumers increasingly recognize, the glut of information that is present on the Internet must be presented meaningfully in order to be useful. This specialized form of social media practice constitutes both the work of professionals and enthusiasts in the presentation of the everyday content of general and highly targeted Websites.

Requisites: MDIA 2113 and (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:

Achieve proficiency in the practice of non-journalistic digital Content Curation as a career choice.
Articulate norms and professional codes that guide the field of Content Curation in establishing the relative value of curated, aggregated web content.
Explore the range of fields in which digital content curation plays a significant role and be able to foresee where practitioners will be needed.
Know how the field fits within the larger scheme of social networks.
Know how theories of new media for the web and beyond implicate digital Content Curation in a complex web of information technology.
Know the critical roles that Content Curation has already come to play and be able to predict roles that are on the horizon.
Learn how to analyze trends and predict the future status of Content Curation.
Master principles and techniques for non-journalistic curating Internet content for the Web and beyond.
Review content analysis tools and features to evaluate success of content curation in areas related to specific platforms (such as YouTube) and overarching genres (such as search engine optimization).
Articulate the roles of Content Curation in social media.

Ohio University

Ohio University

MDIA 3122 - Content Curation