ir245 intro lecture2012
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This is the opening introductory lecture for the Polis LSE Summer School course. International Journalism and Society - The Role of the Media in the Modern WorldIt has a lot of technical details about the course but it also includes the basic course outline and ideas. There is more detail about the course here:TRANSCRIPT
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 [email protected] 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!