EVALUATING SOCIAL MEDIA AS A NEW TOOL OF JOURNALISM EDUCATION

Authors

  • Archana Kumari, Assistant Professor Department of Mass Communication and New Media Central University of Jammu, Jammu – 180011, J & K, India

Abstract

As the media education is gaining momentum, and technologies are being modernized day-by-day, the big question is: how will media schools tap the potential of new communication technologies to make media education more effective and interactive? An implication to this question is the ability of social media, which is highly accessible, interactive and user friendly in India, to act as a medium between the student-student, teacher-student and student internee-trainee employer. Most of the media students are using it regularly without exploring its applicability to the field of education. The author of this paper endeavors to suggest some possible ways as to how these tools can be applied to enrich select modules of media teaching in Indian j-schools such as reporting or producing news, etc.

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2015-02-28

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015): February 2015

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