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 World It 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:

1. Charlie Beckett
Dr Shani Orgad
Dr Bart Cammaerts

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

7. Polis
The 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.a
 The Departmental website:
 www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Today
 Fill in your survey
 11.30am Guest speaker: Connaught
205
 2pm-5pm Seminars: Tower 2, Room
V112

12. 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

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19. 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?

20. 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?

21. Block 3 Journalism and
ideology
 Reporting dissent and protest
 WikiLeaks and the new networked news
 The power of celebrity to transform
journalism

22. 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

23. 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

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