Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

MCM 302 — Online Journalism

MCM department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• explain new and social media; outline the impact of social networking sites on news gathering and reportage
• discuss the issue of fake news and social media
• explain the role social media in shaping citizenship and identities
• outline the challenges in using new and social media; and
• create and upload contents online

Course contents

The course will focus emerging waves of social media such as Face book; Twitter, LinkedIn, etc; impact of social networking sites on news gathering and reportage; issues about social media and potential for peddling harmful information; social media and the citizenship power; connectivity and access.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study MCM 302.

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