Intro to Social Media

You are the author of your presence. Act like it. By the end of this course, you will understand what social media is historically and economically, how the major platforms were built and what their design reveals about their intentions, what the research actually says about social media's effects, and how to construct a presence that reflects a genuine point of view rather than a reaction to whatever the algorithm rewards. You will have a one-sentence point-of-view statement, a platform audit, and a clearer sense of what to protect from the social media construction. This is not a course about growing a following. It is a course about having something worth following.