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Online Journalism: Theory and Practice

Course

Summer 2011

Meet Your Instructor

Name: G. F Khan Education: PhD in Information &

Telecommunication Technology Management, KAIST, 2011

Office: 406-Humanity Building 2Office hours: 16:00 – 17:00 (by appointment)Email: gohar.feroz@gmail.comLecture Room: 203-humanity building 2Class hours: 16:30-17:45 (Tuesday-Thursday)Course blog: http: //cyber.yu.ac.kr/indexE.php Face book: http://www.facebook.com/G.F.KhannTwitter: http://twitter.com/#!/gfkhan

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Expectations from the class

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY:

“learning by doing” or “participative learning” focused on simulating creativity.

We will think class room as a community.

Two-way learning Focus will be on (apart from

learning the course contents) Team Work, Creative Thinking Communication Skills Leadership, and Confidence Building

COURSE OBJECTIVES and Themes:

This course investigates a wide range of online journalism theories to understand the use and effect of computer-assisted (or mediated) reporting.

Further this course enables students to understand various types of new journalism practices from the perspective of user (or journalist).

This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to understand how cutting-edge technology works in the context of a news-making.

To achieve these objectives, a combination of various approaches will be offered, including CLASS LECTURES, CLASS DISCUSSIONS, GROUP PROJECTS PRESENTATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Topics covered (Tentative)Understanding the InternetHistorical perspective on mediaMedia theoryNew Media vs. old mediaOnline Journalism

RSS Feeds, Crowd powered collaboration, Advance blogging, micro-blogging

Mobile journalismStory telling with photographs and videos.Editing and decision making

Media ethicsMedia policy, Law, & Regulations

COURSE MATERIALS

Power pointsMostly, power points (which will provided

before lecture) will cover materials of the course

Assigned ReadingsSome material (papers and book

chapters) will be provided before the class for further understandings

GRADING POLICY:

1 Group Project 30%Midterm Exam 20%Final Exam 20%Presentation 20% Attendance/Participation 10%Total 100%

CLASS REQUIREMENTS

Class Participation/Attendance (20%): Students must read the reading materials and handouts to be discussed in each session

beforehand. Students will be expected to actively participate during the class lectures, discussions and presentations.

Quality and intensity of participation, discussion and contribution to the class throughout the semester will contribute final course grade. Furthermore, three times absence from the class, without a suitable reason, will result in F.

2 Examinations (20% each): There will be one MIDTERM

and one FINAL examination covering all the materials from the class and assignments. The exam is likely to have multiple choice questions. Exams carry 20% marks each.

Presentation (20%): Students are recommended to present a

recent article (research article or news article, or case study, or anything informative) about online journalism and discuss the major points of the articles in class. Presentation makes up 20 % of the final grad.

CLASS REQUIREMENTS

Group Project (30%):

Refer to the class wiki

Next Class

What is the Internet? And where did it come from? History of the Internet Properties of the Internet Convergence Issues and challenges related to internet Discussion

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