IR245 intro lecture 2016 (3)
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These are the slides for the opening lecture of the Polis LSE Summer School in international journalism.
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IR245 intro lecture 2016 (3)
- 1. IR245: International Journalism and Society – The Role of the Media in the Modern World. Polis/LSE Summer School June 2016 Prof. Charlie Beckett Dr Shani Orgad Brooks DeCillia Cesar Jimenez
- 2. What I used to do
- 3. What I used to do
- 4. What I used to do
- 5. What I used to do
- 6. What I do now
- 8. Polis The LSE’s journalism think-tank Charlie Beckett’s blog: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/ Follow me on Twitter: @CharlieBeckett The Polis website: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/POLIS/home.as px The Departmental website: www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/
- 9. Timetable for IR245 • Lectures 10.00-11.15 NAB 104 • Guest speakers 11.30-12.30 NAB 104 • Seminar 1 2-3.30pm • Seminar 2 3.30-5pm NAB 118 • You must attend all lectures, guest lectures and classes – nothing is optional!
- 10. Assessment • Assessment will be by an essay of 1500 words (worth 25% 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 (75% 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 • Assessment is 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
- 11. 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 • Talk to your class teachers
- 12. What will you know after this course? • What’s happening in the world’s news media • All about digital media and media change • How media can change the world • The big ethical issues • About a career in the media: talk to Charlie Beckett or our guest speakers • Get published on the Polis blog
- 17. Block 1: What is journalism today? • What is journalism? • Media and Democracy • Networked Journalism • Journalism and ‘new media’
- 18. Block 2: News in the global context • News, globalisation and immigration • Reporting War and Conflict • Representations of suffering • The newsroom perspective on suffering
- 19. Block 3 Journalism and ideology • News journalism and gender • WikiLeaks and Snowden: disruptive news in the networked era • Journalism and celebrity – beyond the dumbing down thesis
- 20. Sources • Course handbook – you must read these! • Additional readings on course outline • Key texts: Silverstone ‘Media and Morality’ Beckett ‘SuperMedia’ and ‘WikiLeaks’ Orgad ‘Media Representation & the Global Imagination’ • Polis Blog • Twitter – TV – Newspaper – Radio - Websites!
- 21. Guest Speakers: All cutting edge practitioners Ask them questions Use them as case studies for your assessment
- 22. 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
Editor's Notes
- Welcome to our Summer School. Explain who you are: journalist Explain what Polis is. Today is an introduction to the course. Introduce Joseph Turner course auditor Just be clear about how each day will proceed: 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 3.15-4.15pm
- You are expected to attend all the lectures
- Today we are dipping in to the idea that media is undergoing change. If you read my book you will get a guide to how the media is changing and the problems and opportunities that creates. Later we are going to hear about how the BBC is harnessing the new forces of new technology and citizen journalism. Tomorrow you are going to go back to basics. What is News? What are the different theories that describe journalism? It’s going to be a heavy duty bit of theory for you but it will give you the basic terminology so that we can get on to the debate about what media is for and the effects it has. And our guest speaker is a very senior editorial figure from the BBC who has had to grapple with just that – what are the rules for journalism? What do