本课程是新闻传播学类专业本科生的专业必修课，其作用是介绍超媒体、人工智能、电子媒介、地球村、赛伯空间、人机交互、互联网等这些新媒介概念,以及它们的出现对信息传播方式的改变。本课程除了了解国内外这些新媒体的发展现状，还探讨新媒体发展中存在的问题及难点。课程的任务是，分析新媒体对大众的影响，使学生通过学习了解新媒体的基本情况、研究范畴，掌握以对新媒体分析为主体框架的学习方法，引导学生培养起分析传媒的思考能力。

New Media Research is a an obligatory course of Communication professional. The course introduces the concepts of new media on hypermedia, artificial intelligence, electronic media, global village, cyberspace, human-computer interaction, Internet and changes of information transmission mode. In addition to study problems and difficulties in development on newmedia, the existing situation of new media at home and abroad are introduced in the course. Through studying of this course, Student can develop rational thinking ability to media analysis by the scope of the study on main framework of new media.