Contemporary Issues in Journalism
Objectives
This curricular unit is dedicated to the presentation of the challenges that journalism is facing nowadays. In the end, students should be able to:
recognize the main characteristics of the new media ecosystem;
understand the impact of this new ecosystem on the definition of journalism, its routines and its relationship with society;
understand the main contemporary issues in journalism.
General characterization
Code
722011076
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Dora dos Santos Silva
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
None.
Bibliography
Steensen, S.; Westlund, O. (2020). What is digital journalism studies? London: Routledge.
Vázquez-Herrero, J. et al (eds) (2020). Journalistic Metamorphosis - Media Transformation in the Digital Age. Springer (disponível em material de apoio)
Digital News Report 2023. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. University of Oxford.
Newman, NickZelizer, B., Anderson, C. W., Boczkowski, P. (2021). The Journalism Manifesto. Polity Press (disponível em material de apoio)
(2022). Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2022. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
(Other resources will be available during sessions)
Teaching method
Basic concepts, cases discussions and learning through real scenaries
Evaluation method
Written work on a contemporary issue in journalism (can be used as a chapter in the non-academic component): 40%
Oral pitch for this work: 20%
Minimum of three intermediate works (see "work submission"): 40%
Subject matter
Program for the academic year 2023/2024
Part 1 - New Possibilities
Innovation as a motto to understand where we are in journalism
- Innovation typologies
- Emerging narrative models
- Challenges of hybrid journalistic formats
- The paradigm and positioning of "traditional" and emerging platforms
- Financing models
Part 2 - Issues that mark the contemporaneity of journalism
Case 1: IA as protagonist or adjuvant
Case 2: news deserts
Case 3: Emotional journalism: generating empathy and regaining public trust (including "news avoiders") and their attention. As?
case 4: solutions journalism, constructive journalism and participatory journalism
Case 5: mediatic representations of social groups, in the scope of misinformation and social inclusion
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