This is a web document prepared for a course being offered in the Winter semester of 2000 by the Department of Communication, Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008. Sample Web pages created by students of this class in previous semesters.
Interactive media are the latest entrants into the arena of technologies of social communication.
They promise to revolutionize the way we communicate with one another. As students of human communication, we study how mediation of new technologies affect the process and effects of communication. These electronic interactive modes of communication are also increasingly becoming very important in the production and dissemination of knowledge. Becoming proficient in the use of these tools will soon be as important as learning to use the library. The objectives of this document are four fold.