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

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.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

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

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

LO3: Examine the impact of emerging challenges confronting media-information professionals.

LO4: Generate ideas for and produce a freedom of information request.