UK: New masters in social networking

Britain's Birmingham City University is to offer a masters degree teaching students about social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Bebo, reports The Telegraph. The one-year masters in social media will also explain how to set up blogs and publish podcasts.

The £4,400 course, which will start next year, will consider social networking sites as communications and marketing tools. It was advertised through a makeshift video on the university's website.

Jon Hickman, the course convener, told The Telegraph he had received a good response from potential students and described what the course would entail. "It's not for freaks or IT geeks, the tools learnt on this course will be accessible to many people," he said, adding that there had been "significant interest" in the course and that it would appear to students looking to enter professions including journalism and public relations.
Full report on The Telegraph site