Curricula 2015 – 2017
Keywords
Learning outcomes
After completing the course the student can analyze and critically assess current and future trends in media professions, media organizations and media audiences nationally and globally. The student will understand social, economical and political factors that shape various forms of mediated communications in the digital environment.
Contents
The course provides an overview on digital media development and adaptation strategies of media organizations and media professions to the new challenges. In addition, the course lectures and readings open perspectives into the emerging network communications forms and their interrelationship with conventional media. Guest lectures give concrete insights into how social factors shape and impact professional media work and institutions in the changing media landscape.
Teaching methods
| Teaching method | Contact | Online |
| Lectures | 18 h | 0 h |
Teaching language
EnglishModes of study
- Degree Programme Students
- Other Students
- Open University Students
- Doctoral Students
- Exchange Students
- Degree Programme Students
- Other Students
- Open University Students
- Doctoral Students
- Exchange Students
Option 1: In the end of the lectures the student is required to write on essay/learning diary based on the lectures and their materials.
Evaluation and evaluation criteria
Numeric 1-5.Option 1: Class attendance + essay (3 ECTS) + book exam (2 ECTS) Option 2: Book exam (5 ECTS)
Study materials
Option 1 (lectures + essay + book exam)
The book exam (2 ECTS) in the Electronic Exam service (Tenttis)
One (1) book of the following:
- Chadwick, A.: The Hybrid Media System. Politics and Power. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Couldry, N.: Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice. Polity, 2012.
- Lievrouw, L. A. and Livingstone S. (eds.) The Handbook of New Media. SAGE, 2006.
- Russell, A.: Networked: A contemporary history of news in Transition. Polity, 2011.
- Singer, J. et al.: Participatory journalism. Guarding open gates at Online Newspapers. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Option 2 (book exam 5 ECTS)
The book exam (5 ECTS) in the Electronic Exam service (Tenttis)
Three (3) books of the following:
- Chadwick, A.: The Hybrid Media System. Politics and Power. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Couldry, N.: Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice. Polity, 2012.
- Lievrouw, L. A. and Livingstone S. (eds.) The Handbook of New Media. SAGE, 2006.
- Russell, A.: Networked: A contemporary history of news in Transition. Polity, 2011.
- Singer, J. et al.: Participatory journalism. Guarding open gates at Online Newspapers. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Belongs to following study modules
2018–2019
