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MODULE OVERVIEW
Module leader: Rob Jewitt
• @rob_jewitt
• 0191 515 3431
• MC205
• Office hour: Weds 11-12noon
• MAC201 assessment surgeries: Weds 1-2pm MC234
• Weeks 2-7
CONTENT SYNOPSISMainstream media act as the dominant means by which the general public encounter and makes sense of the wider social world. International, national, regional and local media serve a variety of different and often competing, interests as news organisations and publishers disseminate messages across a range of platforms in a bid for the public’s attention. The module will consider factual output encompassing news, current affairs, investigative reporting, documentaries and discussion shows. It will also examine the interplay between the media, its audiences and wider society. A holistic approach to tackling the practices and policies that inform the production and consumption of factual media output will be central to this module. The roles played by media institutions, from the press and broadcasters through to media regulators, will be explored in order to examine the relationship between the public, politics and society.
CONTENT SYNOPSISMainstream media act as the dominant means by which the general public encounter and makes sense of the wider social world. International, national, regional and local media serve a variety of different and often competing, interests as news organisations and publishers disseminate messages across a range of platforms in a bid for the public’s attention. The module will consider factual output encompassing news, current affairs, investigative reporting, documentaries and discussion shows. It will also examine the interplay between the media, its audiences and wider society. A holistic approach to tackling the practices and policies that inform the production and consumption of factual media output will be central to this module. The roles played by media institutions, from the press and broadcasters through to media regulators, will be explored in order to examine the relationship between the public, politics and society.
CONTENT SYNOPSISMainstream media act as the dominant means by which the general public encounter and makes sense of the wider social world. International, national, regional and local media serve a variety of different and often competing, interests as news organisations and publishers disseminate messages across a range of platforms in a bid for the public’s attention. The module will consider factual output encompassing news, current affairs, investigative reporting, documentaries and discussion shows. It will also examine the interplay between the media, its audiences and wider society. A holistic approach to tackling the practices and policies that inform the production and consumption of factual media output will be central to this module. The roles played by media institutions, from the press and broadcasters through to media regulators, will be explored in order to examine the relationship between the public, politics and society.
CONTENT SYNOPSISMainstream media act as the dominant means by which the general public encounter and makes sense of the wider social world. International, national, regional and local media serve a variety of different and often competing, interests as news organisations and publishers disseminate messages across a range of platforms in a bid for the public’s attention. The module will consider factual output encompassing news, current affairs, investigative reporting, documentaries and discussion shows. It will also examine the interplay between the media, its audiences and wider society. A holistic approach to tackling the practices and policies that inform the production and consumption of factual media output will be central to this module. The roles played by media institutions, from the press and broadcasters through to media regulators, will be explored in order to examine the relationship between the public, politics and society.
CONTENT SYNOPSISMainstream media act as the dominant means by which the general public encounter and makes sense of the wider social world. International, national, regional and local media serve a variety of different and often competing, interests as news organisations and publishers disseminate messages across a range of platforms in a bid for the public’s attention. The module will consider factual output encompassing news, current affairs, investigative reporting, documentaries and discussion shows. It will also examine the interplay between the media, its audiences and wider society. A holistic approach to tackling the practices and policies that inform the production and consumption of factual media output will be central to this module. The roles played by media institutions, from the press and broadcasters through to media regulators, will be explored in order to examine the relationship between the public, politics and society.
CONTENT SYNOPSISMainstream media act as the dominant means by which the general public encounter and makes sense of the wider social world. International, national, regional and local media serve a variety of different and often competing, interests as news organisations and publishers disseminate messages across a range of platforms in a bid for the public’s attention. The module will consider factual output encompassing news, current affairs, investigative reporting, documentaries and discussion shows. It will also examine the interplay between the media, its audiences and wider society. A holistic approach to tackling the practices and policies that inform the production and consumption of factual media output will be central to this module. The roles played by media institutions, from the press and broadcasters through to media regulators, will be explored in order to examine the relationship between the public, politics and society.
2 x lectures per week1 x seminar per week1 x drop-in session per week (until week 7)4 x additional drop-in sessions (week 13)
NOTE-TAKING
WEEKLY SCHEDULEWeek 1: Critical pedagogy
1 - Module overview and assessment preparation2 – News values, news frames and shifting debates
Week 2: News, governance and regulation
1 – Issues of objectivity, impartiality and balance2 – Broadcast regulation vs print media: Ofcom and the PCC/Royal Charter
Week 3: Debates and public opinion
1 – The public sphere, public opinion and plurality2 – Constructing the public: platforms for public participation
Week 4: Online news and ‘engagement’
1 – ‘Comment is free’: public opinion and ‘below the line’ feedback
2 – Data journalism, visualization and infographics
WEEKLY SCHEDULEWeek 5: Factual output and personalization
1 – Representing the public: the celebrity journalist2 – Are we being served? Dumbing down, infotainment and social media.
Week 6: Global media events
1 –Wikileaks: the age of transparency?2 – Social media revolutions: the arab spring
Week 7: Critical media discourses
1 – Querying contemporary moral panics and media panics
2 – Querying media effects: discourses of blame (high school killings)
Week 8:
Independent study week
WEEKLY SCHEDULEWeek 9: Documenting facts?
1 – Critical approaches to documentary and investigative journalism
2 – Representing race, religion and immigration across factual media
Week 10: Agenda setting media
1 – When Will I be Famous? Cultures of Celebrity in reality TV2 – Reality TV and the ideologies of capitalism: neoliberalism and The Apprentice
Week 11: Entertainment or exploitation?
1 – The class-based politics of reality TV: reality or fiction in Benefits Street?
2 – ‘Poverty porn’, duty of care and media responsibility
Week 12: Gender, ideology and representation
1 – Lifestyle TV and social surveillance of classed and gendered bodies2 – Narratives of transformation and transgression in lifestyle media: size 0?
RECOMMENDED BOOKS• Allan, S. (2010) News Culture 3rd Edition, Buckingham: Open
University Press
• Albertazzi, D. and Cobley, P. eds (2009) The Media: An Introduction 3rd Edition, Harlow, Pearson Education Limited.
• Burton, G (2004) Media & Society: Critical Perspectives, Maidenhead: Open University Press
• Cushion, S (2012) Television Journalism, London: Sage
• Hodkinson, P (2011) Media, Culture and Society: an introduction, London: Sage
• Lunt, P., & Livingstone, S. (2012) Media Regulation, London: Sage
• McNair, B. (2009) News and Journalism in the UK 5th Edition, London: Routledge
RECOMMENDED JOURNALS• Media, Culture & Society
• Journal of Media Practice
• Journalism Studies
• Journalism Practice
• Digital Journalism
• European Journal of Cultural Studies
ASSESSMENT 1 – TIME CONSTRAINED TEST
Tuesday 4th November 2014 at 3pm in Prospect PR009
In week 7 of term students will be expected to complete a time-constrained test. This test will be worth 40% of the total module grade. It aims to assess student knowledge and comprehension of the material covered on the module to date.
ASSESSMENT 1 – TIME CONSTRAINED TESTThe format of the test will be as follows:
- 2 hour test paper
- students must answer 4 from a maximum of 10 questions
- each question will be equally weighted (ie worth 25% of this assessment grade or
10% of the overall module grade)
- the test will be a ‘seen’ paper
- the questions will be provided to students 7 days in advance of the test
- the questions will be published on Sunspace and an email will be issued to all
students registered on the module.
- the test will not be an ‘open book’ paper (ie no books can be brought into the test
room).
ASSESSMENT 2 - ANALYSING FACTUAL TEXTS
Wednesday 7th January 2015 by 3pm (physical and digital submission)
This assignment requires students to assess and critically analyse one or two of the key issues, concepts, keywords or themes raised across the module in some detail. The assignment must address the above by paying specific reference to examples drawn from one of the following formats listed below. Students must apply a concept to a textual example:
- Broadcast news (eg The Channel 4 News, PM)
- Political discussion show (eg Question Time, Any Questions)
- Current affairs (eg Newsnight, Today)
- The talk show (eg The Jeremy Kyle Show)
- Documentary (eg Dispatches, The Report)
- Reality television (eg The X-Factor)
- Lifestyle television (eg How to Look Good Naked)
NEXT…
Wednesday 10am – News values lecture
No screening this week (normally Tuesday)
Seminars will proceed as standard
Students should read:
Harcup, T. & O’Neill, D., 2001, ‘What is news? Galtung and Ruge revisited’, in Journalism Studies 2: 261-280.
