OLLI1048 - Understanding Media in the Digital Age [Online via Zoom]

Course Description

UNDERSTANDING MEDIA IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Instructor: Dick Sheeran

Day of Week: Monday

Dates: Oct. 27 - Nov. 17 (4 sessions)

Time: 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Location: Hyflex at TUCC

The media landscape is undergoing dramatic changes. Traditional outlets such as newspapers, broadcast radio, and TV are in decline, while digital news sites, social media, podcasts, and streaming platforms dominate. This course examines new ways information is collected, disseminated, and consumed.

Maximum: 30 viewing from a classroom at TUCC - instructor online/50 online

Instructor Bio: Dick Sheeran holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and spent 30 years as an anchor and reporter for CBS-TV Philadelphia, as well as five years as a reporter and editor at KYW News Radio Philadelphia. He began his career at the Philadelphia Daily News as a reporter and editor. After retiring from TV news, Sheeran taught journalism at Temple University for several years. He is a local board member of the SAG-AFTRA union and a member of the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame. Sheeran is also the author of the memoir News Hound.

Notes

Hyflex courses allow students to gather in a classroom to watch live, remote instruction from a virtual instructor. The setting offers opportunities to socialize before class, ask questions or share comments during the session with help from a classroom assistant, and discuss lessons afterward. It’s a blend of online and in-person learning.

If you register to be able to sit in the classroom - this is a wait list class.

If you register for the online version where the instructor will also be this class is direct enrollment.