Photojournalism

Code:

CC021

Acronym:

FJOR

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Communication Sciences

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Communication and Information Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Communication Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CC	40	Study plan	3	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Introduce theoretical, technical, and conceptual tools for press photography.

Recognise photographic practices throughout its history, encouraging the development of work that explores the medium's specificity and articulates an autonomous and critical discourse.

To promote the ability to analyze photography in the media.

To discuss photojournalism's aesthetic and ethical issues in the context of media convergence and globalization.

Learning outcomes and competences

Understand the photojournalist's role and responsibility in producing information in different media (analog and digital).

To assimilate the basic production techniques of journalistic photography and its articulation processes in the media.

Develop an analytical ability to read images in the contemporary press.

Working method

Presencial

Program

_The press photographer:
Historical context, working methods, and paradigms.

_Photography as a document:
Concepts and mechanisms of representational functioning.

_Photojournalistic language and practice:
Genres, approaches and conceptual, formal and descriptive elements of the image.

_Photography in the press:
Text and image relationship, composition, narrative.
Current media and practices for capturing, editing, and disseminating information.

_The social and ethical challenges of photojournalism in digital culture:
Manipulation and disinformation.

Mandatory literature

Batchen, Geoffrey ; Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography, The MIT Press, 1999
Jorge Pedro Sousa; Fotojornalismo
Kenneth Kobré; Photojournalism. ISBN: 978-0-7506-8593-1
Lucia Santaella; Imagem. ISBN: 85-7321-056-7
Rouillé, André; Fotografia: entre documento e arte contemporânea, Ed. Senac, 2009
Sontag, Susan; Olhando o Sofrimento dos Outros, Quetzal Editores, 2015
Sena, António; História da Imagem Fotográfica em Portugal, Porto Editora, 1998
Vilém Flusser; Ensaio sobre a fotografia. ISBN: 972-708-513-x

Complementary Bibliography

Alan Trachtenberg; Ensaios sobre fotografia. ISBN: 978-989-8327-19-2
Jorge Pedro Sousa; Uma^história crítica do fotojornalismo ocidental. ISBN: 85-85775-55-6
Lubben, Kristen (Org.); Magnum Contatos, Instituto Moreira Salles, 2012
Martin Keene; Fotojornalismo. ISBN: 972-576-219-3
Shore, Stephen ; A Natureza das Fotografias, Cosac & Naify, 2014. ISBN: 9788540507043
Yapp, Nick; 150 years of photojournalism - Hulton Deutch Collection, Konemann, 1995

Teaching methods and learning activities

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	55,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	45,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	60,00
Trabalho de campo	40,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Assessment is systematic and continuous. For the weighting of the value to be assigned in each of these moments and for each of the work proposals, the following factors are considered:
_Acquisition, articulation, and application of concepts.
_Scientific and technological curiosity.
_The use of appropriate conceptual and technical language.
_Compliance with deadlines for submission of works.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final assessment will be based on an analysis of the practical component work that complements the content taught in class, duly organized in an individual photographic blog produced by the students.
Work proposals not duly monitored during their realization will not be considered for the final assessment.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Failure to participate in at least 75% of the classes may require oral discussion of the evaluation elements presented, which the teacher will indicate until the end of the respective academic period, and a theoretical/practical test on the subjects introduced within this unit.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

As provided in the FLUP Evaluation Regulations.