Class Critical Analysis of Digital Media and New Formats

This course seeks to ellicit a critical analysis of productions in digital media, by focsuing on narratives, profiles and professional practices of journalists involved in collaborative investigations and the impact of those on news organizations' values and models. By articulating concepts of journalism with technological developments and emergent cases, this theoretical-practical course aims to develop analytical skills on digital media and emergent news formats in a hyper-fragmented media environment and a reflection on the public role of media.

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1. Concepts of Journalism and Media and Cultural Production 1.1. Collaborative Journalism 1.2. Data Journalism 1.3. Engaged, 'causes', public journalism 1.4. Journalism and Literature; Narrative Formats 2. Production Logics 2.1. Automation in Journalistic Production 2.2. Mainstream Media; Alternative and Independent Media; Content Creation 2.3. Multiplatform Strategies 3. Audiences 3.1. Crowdsourcing, Fact-Checking, Engagement, Crowdfunding 3.2. Reception and Engagement; Impact 4. Analysis of cases of collaborative investigations, cause journalism, narrative formats.

The teaching-learning process includes lectures, reading and discussion of academic texts, display/reading of examples of journalistic and media work in emerging formats, as well as reading books in the market and showing excerpts from films and documentaries about journalistic investigations.

Croteau, D., & Hoynes, W. (2019). Media/society: Technology, industries, content, and users (6th ed.). SAGE. Diakopoulos, N. (2019). Automating the News: How algorithms are rewriting the media. Harvard University Press. Franklin, B., & Eldridge II, S. A. (Eds.). (2017). The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies. Routledge. Gray, J., Bounegru, L., Venturini, T., & Mauri, M. (Eds.). (2021). The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a critical data practice. Amsterdam University Press. Luengo, M., & Herrera-Damas, S. (Eds). (2021). News Media Innovation Reconsidered: Ethics and Values in a Creative Reconstruction of Journalism. Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119706519 Witschge, T., Anderson, C. W., Domingo, D., & Hermida, A. (Eds.). (2016). The SAGE Handbook of Digital Journalism. SAGE. Wenzel, A. (2020). Community-centered Journalism: Engaging people, exploring solutions, and building trust. University of Illinois Press.