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Journalism: Modern Processes and Challenges
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:19.08.2024 10:13:21
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_083 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences | Target Audience: | Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Līga Ozoliņa | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Analysis of Communication Situations. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The objective of the study course is to master current problems in modern journalism and to analyse its development trends. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Origins of journalism, journalism history. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Mission of a journalist and professional roles in the context of social media theories. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | News in journalism – classical functions and modern problems. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | The practical side of journalism: thematic diversity: sources, their compliance and reliability; "objective"/“unobjective” genres and formats of journalism. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Contemporary problems of journalism: emotional journalism; commenting and subjective journalism, "people's journalism", blogs and journalism. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Yellow journalism and the "yellowing" of quality journalism: personal life and its inviolability/vulnerability in journalism | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Criticism of journalism, its types (gift culture, close friendship with sources, “good and bad” experts, factions of journalists and editorial boards). Journalist’s behaviour as a professional dilemma. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Language as a tool of a journalist. Publicistic style, its development trends. Digital media and language. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Seminar. Current problems in journalism practice and their critical analysis. Presentations and discussion of final projects. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | To master theoretical literature and perform an independent work. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Independent works; Examination. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students know current problems and trends in journalism, directions of recent research and its conclusions as well as development of the theoretical thinking in/on journalism studies. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students can analyse the quality of journalist’s work and find solutions in problems situations. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students are competent in the analysis of media work and current matters of journalism, are able to perform and manage journalistic work. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Hanitzsch, T., Hanusch, F. Ramaprasad, J., & de Beer, A. S. (2019). Worlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures Around the Globe. New York: Columbia University Press. | ||||||||
| 2 | Peters, Chris & Broersma, Marcel (eds.) (2013). Rethinking journalism: Trust and participation in a transformed news landscape. London: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 3 | Örnebring, Henrik (2009). The two professionalisms of journalism: Journalism and the changing context of work. Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. | ||||||||
| 4 | Hanitzsch, Thomas (2007). “Deconstructing journalism culture: Toward a universal theory.” Communication Theory 17(4), 367–385. | ||||||||
| 5 | Deuze, Mark (2005). “What is journalism? Professional identity and ideology of journalists reconsidered.” Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 6(4), 442–464. | ||||||||
| 6 | Bruno, Nicola & Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis (2012). Survival is success: Journalistic online start-ups in Western Europe. Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Latvijas prese 200 gados: no Latviešu Avīzēm līdz digitālo mediju laikmetam : Latvijas plašsaziņas mediju sistēmas vēsture no pirmsākumiem līdz mūsdienām | ||||||||
