This is a required module which, building on the module COMM 215: Foundations of Contemporary Media and linking with COMM 227: Media Theo-ry offers a broad but in-depth overview of theories about ‘new’ new media, as well as their impact and influence on various aspects of socio-cultural life, including consumption, cyberculture, identities, politics, technoscience and so on. This module adopts an applied approach to new media.