ATS2784 · News and power

Overview

This unit provides you with an opportunity for a critical engagement with contemporary scholarship on the sociology and political economy of news production; news organisations and practices in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors; news media formats and representation. It asks you to think critically about industrial and post-industrial news media; journalism, public relations and politics; journalism and social diversity; journalism and the public sphere; technologies, time and space in news media. The unit takes a comparative approach to historical and geographical contexts.

Areas of study: Journalism Communications and media studies Media

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate a satisfactory knowledge and capacity to make effective usage of the academic literature in the sociology and political economy of journalism;
2. Demonstrate an ability to research, discuss and analyse issues in a clear, concise and rigorous way;
3. Collaborate constructively with fellow students in learning and discussion processes, including online forums;
4. Produce their written work to deadline making effective use of the conventions of scholarly presentation(references, bibliography, etc);
5. Work independently and in groups to achieve their learning outcomes;
6. Demonstrate a critical awareness of the strengths, limitations and socio-professional implications of scholarly practice in journalism studies.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.