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Media Literacy and Journalism in the Era of Disinformation (L2D)
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:26:10
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_282 | LQF level: | All Levels | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences; Communication Theory | Target Audience: | Juridical Science; Business Management; Information and Communication Science; Medicine; Psychology; Nursing Science; Dentistry; Biology; Civil and Military Defense; Medical Services; Sociology; Social Anthropology; Communication Science; Sports Trainer; Pharmacy; Public Health; Health Management; Midwifery; Pedagogy; Political Science; Marketing and Advertising; Life Science; Person and Property Defence; Clinical Pharmacy; Rehabilitation; Social Welfare and Social Work; Management Science; Medical Technologies | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ilva Skulte | ||||||||
| 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: | Preferably: basic knowledge (introductory courses) on democracy, society, communication and journalism. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The goal of the course is to build the understanding of principles of journalism and media usage and its changes in contemporary situation of rising disinformation, by underlining need for media literacy and self-reflection in the everyday practices of media consumers and communication professionals, by forming conceptual view on role of media in the life of communicative and integrated democratic society and by encouraging responsible expression and participation in social processes. In the implementation of the course the methodology created by IREX JEDI& L2D will be used. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Why we need journalism? Media role in democracy | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Journalism principles and standards: traditions and challenges | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | What is objectivity in journalism and how to judge it | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | News selection and framing: topics and headlines | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Forms and types of disinformation | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Essentials of content evaluation | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Checking the written content | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Checking of photos, videos, and social media | Lectures | 1.00 | computer room | |||||
| 9 | Emotions on the net: how to be "emotion literate" in the age of algorithms? | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Self-reflection: me as media consumer and content creator | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Methodological materials - corpus of news items, selected in media or created, adapted and marked | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The evaluation includes the evaluation of student' s work during the course, results in practical tasks as well as independent work -how does the material created in this work show the understanding of most important elements, norms and principles of journalistic work as well as most common types and kinds of disinformation | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Oral) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students understand notion of media literacy, know the principles of selection and production of news and other genres of media information, role of media in the democratic society, responsibility of media professionals, owners and consumers in the age of social and multimedia, on the types, channels and forms of disinformation (including use of visual and audiovisual and data and algorithmic methods). | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students can evaluate content and form of (multi)media information, deciding on information quality, can analyse and perform usage of media in a media literate way. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students (both as journalists and media users) create and use (choose communication media, receive, understand, share and comment) information in their every day practices, by consciously encouraging maintenance of principles of democracy in public communication. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Hobbs, Renee. Digital and media literacy: Connecting culture and classroom. Corwin Press, 2011. | ||||||||
| 2 | Hobbs, Renee. "Expanding the concept of literacy." Media Literacy Around the World. Routledge, 2018. 163-183. | ||||||||
| 3 | Potter, W. James. Media literacy. Sage Publications, 2018. | ||||||||
| 4 | Ashley, Seth, Adam Maksl, and Stephanie Craft. "News media literacy and political engagement: What’s the connection?." Journal of Media Literacy Education 2017. | ||||||||
| 5 | Semali, Ladislaus. Intermediality: Teachers' Handbook Of Critical Media Literacy. Routledge, 2018. | ||||||||
| 6 | Kellner, Douglaas, Share Jeff. The Critical media Literacy Guide. Engaging Media and Transforming Education. Leiden. Boston, Brill Sense, 2019 | ||||||||
| 7 | Pattison, Tania. Critical reading. Pearson, 2015 | ||||||||
| 8 | Housand, Brian. C. Fighting Fake News! Teaching Critical Thinking and Media Literacy in a Digital Age. - Waco: Prufrock Press, 2018 | ||||||||
| 9 | Faris, Robert, et al. "Partisanship, propaganda, and disinformation: Online media and the 2016 US presidential election." Berkman Klein Center Research Publication 6 (2017). | ||||||||
| 10 | Marwick, Alice, and Rebecca Lewis. "Media manipulation and disinformation online." New York: Data & Society Research Institute (2017). | ||||||||
| 11 | Zelče, Vita. (red.) Latvijas mediju vides daudzveidība. Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, 2018. | ||||||||
