Mobile platforms investigated

The School of Journalism and Mass Communication, in conjunction with the Mexico City campus of Tec de Monterrey, is offering a course in spring 2010,  ”Media Landscape of the 21st Century.” Two Mexican professors will teach this cutting-edge course by video-link in English. It will explore new personal media, hand-held media and other new means of communication. Students in Chapel Hill will join their classmates in Mexico City via teleconferences and Blackboard.

Ten students from Tec and ten from UNC will be in the class. Tec de Monterrey is a pioneering, high-tech university system with more than 30 campuses across Mexico. The Mexico City campus has a respected mass communication program with outstanding professors. The teachers of this course will be Enrique Tames, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Clark Murray, a North Carolina native.

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