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Seminar
WiSe 19/20: Media & Information Literacy – News in the Network Society
Tong-Jin Smith
Comments
This explorative course will be taught primarily in English. As we will be working with external partners some of the communication and research will take place in German.
In our current network society journalists and legacy media compete with pundits, bloggers, influencers and prosumers for attention. News, information and entertainment are intertwined and sometimes hard to distinguish. So how do journalists stay abreast? How they decide what information becomes news? How do they deal with information that others have deemed newsworthy? And what factors influence the development of news media today?
In this course we will be talking about news factors and news value, about the process of news selection and how journalists may or may not determine what lands on the media and public agenda. In the course of this research we will also be looking at journalism culture and speaking to journalists about their experiences. We will be touching on questions of media business models and innovation in journalism.
Requirements: interest in hands on research, firm in both English and German as well as qualitative research methods, willingness to conduct field work outside of class and present research results in class as well as to external partners. Dare to think outside a box.
Attendance & Grading: Please, be present for the first session and continue to participate regularly. Grading will take place via oral presentations as well as written reports or a term paper.
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2019-10-17 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2019-10-24 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2019-10-31 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2019-11-07 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2019-11-14 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2019-11-21 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2019-11-28 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2019-12-05 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2019-12-12 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2019-12-19 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2020-01-09 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2020-01-16 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2020-01-23 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2020-01-30 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2020-02-06 08:00 - 10:00
Thu, 2020-02-13 08:00 - 10:00