ir245 intro lecture2012

Charlie BeckettDr Shani Orgad

Dr Bart Cammaerts

What I used to do

What I used to do

What I used to do

What I used to do

What I do now

PolisThe LSE’s Media think-tank Charlie Beckett’s blog: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/ Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/CharlieBeckett The Polis website: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/

POLIS/home.aspx The Departmental website: www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/

Timetable for IR245

All lectures will be 10-11.15am All guest speakers will be

11.30-12.30 Seminar 1 will be 2-3pm Seminar 2 will be 3-4pm Seminar 3 will be 4-5pm

Assessment Assessment will be by an essay of 1500 words

(worth 30% of the final marks) to be handed in at 10am on Monday July 16th

And an exam of two hours with questions on aspects of the course (70% of the final marks).

Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the theoretical background to journalism studies as well as relate this to case-studies

It’s optional! We will help you prepare and you will have two

clear days for revision Get help here on studying: http://learning.lse.ac.uk/ We will mark them straight away and the Summer

School will give you the results

Contacts

For all practical problems: talk to the Summer School office

For specific IR245 Course issues: email polis@lse.ac.uk and put ‘Summer School’ in the subject

Today

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11.30am Guest speaker: Connaught 205

2pm-5pm Seminars: Tower 2, Room V112

What will you know after this course? What’s happening in the world’s news

media The big ethical issues All about ‘New Media’ How the media can change the world About a career in the media: talk to

Charlie Beckett or our guest speakers Get published on the Polis blog

This is journalism…

This is journalism…

This is journalism…

This is journalism…

This is journalism…

This is journalism…

Block 1: What is journalism today? Identity: how do you define a journalist?

Ethics: what is good or bad journalism?

Power: what can journalism do to the world?

‘New’ Media: how is journalism changing?

Block 2: News in the global context Globalisation: what happens when news

goes international? Conflict: how can journalists report well

on war and revolutions? Suffering: how should we represent

disasters or poverty in the world? Newsroom perspective: what do

journalists think about suffering?

Block 3 Journalism and ideology

Reporting dissent and protest WikiLeaks and the new networked news The power of celebrity to transform

journalism

Guest Speakers The Guardian BBC News BBC Academy Channel 4 documentaries The Independent Avaaz.Org The One Campaign Russian democracy campaign PopBitch UK party political campaigner

Media as our environment “I want to endorse the idea of the media

as an environment, an environment which provides at the most fundamental level the resources we all need for the conduct of everyday life. It follows that such an environment may be or may become polluted”

Roger Silverstone Media and Morality

Sources

Course handbook Additional readings on course outline Key texts: Silverstone ‘Media and Morality’ Beckett ‘SuperMedia’ and ‘WikiLeaks’ Polis Blog Twitter – TV – Newspaper – Websites!