Core Module Information
Module title: Journalism, Information and Society

SCQF level: 11:
SCQF credit value: 20.00
ECTS credit value: 10

Module code: JAC11131
Module leader: Aleksandar Kocic
School School of Arts and Creative Industries
Subject area group: Media and Humanities
Prerequisites

There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

Description of module content:

The journalist as reflective practitioner; the research base; information as commodity and natural resource; the information society and its critics; the contribution of Daniel Bell; the journalism of information; freedom of information (FOI), local and international; democracy and the fourth and fifth estates; opinion columns and punditry; Walter Lippmann as exemplar; freedom of the press; the idea of the public sphere; Jurgen Habermas and the theory of communicative action; the nature of power/knowledge; Michel Foucault; the political economy of communication and information; the agenda-setting research tradition; news value paradigms; information and media policy issues; information poverty and inequality; copyright and intellectual property; privacy and surveillance; censorship and its viability in an age of information; the press and the secret state; specialist fields, such as sports journalism and science journalism; international institutions and challenges; social justice and ethical issues; emergent media; forecasting and the study of the future; associated research topics as they arise.

Learning Outcomes for module:

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Assess the main schools of thought in the research literature on journalism and the information society.

LO2: Discuss and debate key contemporary issues, such as unequal access to information, the power of newspaper columnists, agenda-setting, privacy and media concentration.

LO3: Apply current thinking to emerging challenges confronting media-information professionals.

LO4: Apply freedom of information rights in a practical context.

Full Details of Teaching and Assessment
2023/4, Trimester 2, Blended, Edinburgh Napier University
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Occurrence: 002
Primary mode of delivery: Blended
Location of delivery: MERCHISTON
Partner: Edinburgh Napier University
Member of staff responsible for delivering module: Aleksandar Kocic
Module Organiser:


Student Activity (Notional Equivalent Study Hours (NESH))
Mode of activityLearning & Teaching ActivityNESH (Study Hours)
Face To Face Lecture 13
Face To Face Tutorial 26
Face To Face CLASS TEST 2
Online Project Supervision 26
Online Guided independent study 133
Total Study Hours200
Expected Total Study Hours for Module200


Assessment
Type of Assessment Weighting % LOs covered Week due Length in Hours/Words
Report 25 4 Week 12 , WORDS= 750
Oral Presentation 25 1~2~3 Week 8 HOURS= 1
Centrally Time Tabled Examination 50 1~2~3 Exam Period HOURS= 2
Component 1 subtotal: 50
Component 2 subtotal: 50
Module subtotal: 100

Indicative References and Reading List - URL:
JAC11131 Journalism, Communication and Society