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Advanced Studies in Media and Journalism

Code: DCCI09     Acronym: EAMJ

Keywords
Classification Keyword
OFICIAL Communication Sciences

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S Ícone do Moodle

Active? Yes
Responsible unit: Department of Communication and Information Sciences
Course/CS Responsible: 3rd Cycle of Studies in Communication and Information Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym No. of Students Study Plan Curricular Years Credits UCN Credits ECTS Contact hours Total Time
DCCI 9 study plan 1 - 6 40,5 162

Teaching Staff - Responsibilities

Teacher Responsibility
Ana Isabel Crispim Mendes Reis

Teaching - Hours

Theoretical and practical : 3,00
Type Teacher Classes Hour
Theoretical and practical Totals 1 3,00
Ana Isabel Crispim Mendes Reis 0,75
Paulo Frias da Costa 0,75
Fernando António Dias Zamith Silva 0,75
Helder Manuel Ferreira Bastos 0,75

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Journalism as the central axis of communication and citizenship and its foundational elements. New challenges are part of social, cultural, economic and political contexts being the issue of credibility. These concepts will be dealt with in the expository classes.

Knowledge, understanding and problematizing skills to produce innovative knowledge. These competences are acquired through the equation, research and debate in class, based on theory and practical cases.

The importance of sources as a professional procedure. Innovations in the elaboration of news and correlations with the fact-checking processes. Fake-news and Fact-checking mechanisms.

Transformations brought by IT and understand how news production, consumption and credibility relationships have changed.

To develop the ability to reflect on learning processes, studies, reports, codes and research networks.

Being capable of autonomy of study and initiative, originality and integration of the topics covered.

Learning outcomes and competences

Evaluation takes into consideration the proposed learning objectives and how they are integrated by students.

The work carried out and the participation in class must reveal the capability of understanding and problematizing, towards the production of innovative knowledge.

The evaluation processes will identify the skills acquired in the field of media and journalism. One of the outputs of this curricular unit will be the production of knowledge and innovation in topics such as theories about the fundamentals of journalism, new sources of news, narratives and news frameworks, impacts of IT, audiences, among others.

From the point of view of the final learning results, the theoretical-practical classes allow a grounded knowledge of the subjects, while the sessions with guests promote a closer perspective of the central issues of journalism and the media.

The evaluation also allows for the assessment of the autonomy of study and initiative, originality and integration of the topics addressed

Working method

Presencial

Program

1 – The foundations of Journalism
2 – News sources: novel approaches
3 – New technologies and transformations in the journalistic field
4 – Journalism in debate: challenges, learning and boundaries

Mandatory literature

Bill Kovach; Os^elementos do jornalismo. ISBN: 972-0-45257-9
Fink K.; The biggest challenge facing journalism: A lack of trust, 2019
Hanusch, F, Vos TP; Charting the development of a field: A systematic review of comparative studies of journalism, 2020
Tumber, H.; Journalism Studies, 2019
Witschge, T., Deuze M., Willemsen, S. ; Creativity in (Digital) Journalism Studies: Broadening our Perspective on Journalism Practice, 2019
Wölker, A., Powell, TE; Algorithms in the newsroom? News readers’ perceived credibility and selection of automated journalism, 2021

Teaching methods and learning activities

Expository component from a perspective of approaching the conceptual aspects of the field of journalism, based on classic conceptual aspects, but with the integration of new elements and approaches. The lectures are conceived as a space for reflection and debate with students, with the aim of identifying the dynamics of Journalism as the central axis of communication and citizenship and the specificities of

its foundational elements. Identify and expose new models of digital communication, transformations in digital journalism, disinformation and fact-checking. Examples will be presented as working elements.

Classes with guests will be prepared in order to obtain an optimization in the questions posed in the expository sessions and space for debate.

The monitoring of students aims to guide the study through recommended readings and appropriate research methodologies in the different aspects addressed in media and journalism studies.

keywords

Social sciences > Communication sciences > Media studies
Social sciences > Communication sciences > Journalism

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation Weight (%)
Participação presencial 30,00
Trabalho escrito 70,00
Total: 100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas 80,00
Trabalho de investigação 82,00
Total: 162,00

Eligibility for exams

Distributed assessment without final exam

Distributed evaluation - 30%
Preparation of conference reports or book reviews. 

Final Work - 70%
Preparation and presentation of research work (with mandatory minimum approval of grade 10).
The final work must contain a theoretical component, being a case study or a developed essay.

Calculation formula of final grade

E+Pp+Tc=100%
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