1. Understanding Media: Aesthetics of Social Networking
1.1. Social Networking
1.2. Kinds of Social Media and its Varying Uses
1.2.1. Print-Based
1.2.2. Audio-Based
1.2.3. Photo-Based
1.2.4. Video-Based
1.2.5. Social-Networking Sites
1.3. Relevance Of Social Media in Today's Society
1.3.1. Personal Communication
1.3.2. Business and Customer Care Tools
1.3.3. Social Services and Governance
1.3.4. Educational Tools
2. Understanding Media: Aesthetics of Film and TV
2.1. Film Form
2.2. Modes of Film Production
2.3. Film Formats
2.4. Film Image Composition
2.5. Motion Framing Concepts
2.6. TV Broadcast
2.7. Kind of TV Shows
2.8. TV show Anatomy and Advertising
2.9. Crafting Media Messages
2.10. Creating Meaning in Audio Production
3. Understanding Media: Aesthetics of New Media
3.1. Deconstructing New Media
3.2. New Media Technology
3.3. Intersecting Traditonal Media and New Media
3.3.1. Journalism + Internet = Blogging
3.3.2. Brodcasting + Internet = Podcast
3.3.3. Film = Internet = YouTube
3.4. Transitioning Media, Transitioning Users
4. What is Media?
4.1. Media
4.1.1. The main means of mass communication regarded collectively
4.2. Media as an Information Industry
4.3. Media as a Culture of Entertainment
4.4. Mobile Communications Techonology
4.5. Kinds of Media
4.5.1. Traditional Media
4.5.2. New Media
4.5.3. Social Media
4.6. Related and Emerging Techonologies
5. Media Then and Now
5.1. History of Media
5.1.1. Pre-Industrial Age
5.1.2. Industrial Age
5.1.3. Electronic Age
5.1.4. Digital Age
5.2. Media Ownership
5.2.1. Mainstream Media
5.2.2. Alternative and Independent Media
5.2.3. Community Media
5.2.4. State-Owned Media
5.2.5. The state of media today
5.2.5.1. From Globalization to Glocalization
5.2.5.2. The local landscape
6. Understanding Media: Aesthetics of the Image, Text and Audio
6.1. Framing and Reading
6.1.1. Newspapers and Journalism
6.1.2. Books, Comics, Magazines, and the Publishing Industry
6.1.3. Photography and Timeless Image Concepts
6.2. Framing and Listening
6.2.1. Radio and Evoking Imagination