This course examines a wide variety of issues that relate to the roles of information communication technologies(ICTs) in political, social, psychological, and cultural processes in community contexts, both physical and virtual. In so doing, this course reviews such topics as information communication technologies(ICTs), including social media and mobile technologies, and their relation to governments, political parties, nonprofit/voluntary organizations, social movements, news media organizations, citizen journalism, public sphere, social capital, deliberation, and political/civic/community engagement. As such, this course sheds light on the democratic functioning of the information communication technologies (ICTs) for a healthy community to operate at local, regional, national, and global levels.