Looking for Communications Team Summer Interns
Focus on Speech Writing & Online Content, Social Network/Digital, and Writing/Communications
Speech Writing & Online Content
Persuasive online content, whether in written, visual, and oral communication formats, can motivate audiences and communities to take action. As active audiences and community members, people engage in social advocacy, form opinions, consume products, and motivate others to participate in collective action. Understanding the role of creating effective speeches and web-based content for persuasive and strategic communication requires knowledge and proficiency in speech writing, presentation skills, audience analysis, as well as matching audiences, writing styles, and digital storytelling to the most suitable social media platforms.
Social Networks.
Explores the use of social network analysis theories and methods to understand the growing connectivity and complexity in the world around us on different scales, ranging from small groups to the World Wide Web. Offers students an opportunity to see the world in a new way: using a network perspective. Covers a wide range of topics and applications relating to social network analysis. Discusses how social networks concepts, theories, and visual-analytic methods are being used to map, measure, understand, and design a wide range of phenomena such as groups and organizations, friendships and romantic relationships, social networking sites (Facebook), recommender systems (Amazon), online games and virtual worlds (Second Life), and the World Wide Web.