Communication Structure
Code: 103855 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2501933 Journalism | FB | 1 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Mercè Díez Jiménez
- Email:
- Merce.Diez@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- Yes
Teachers
- Aida Martori Muntsant
- Ana Isabel Fernandez Viso
- Nuria Torras Planas
- José Joaquín Blasco Gil
Prerequisites
Follow-up of news about the media system (mainly in Catalonia, Spain and Europe) is recommended.
Objectives and Contextualisation
To provide students with an introduction to the knowledge of structural features of media systems in the Western European environment, with special attention to Spanish and Catalan cases, where he/she will develop his/her professional activity.
Thus, in the first approach the economical, political and social actors that make up or contribute to the formation of these systemes will be considered, without neglecting the analysis of the North American model, due to its influence on the development of European and Latin American media systems. On the other hand, emphasis will be placed on the impact of the Internet and digitalization on the redesign of communication structure at local, state and international levels.
Eventually, aspects related to other media systems can be included if a particularly relevant fact occurs.
Competences
- Demonstrate a critical and self-critical capacity.
- Demonstrate a self-learning and self-demanding capacity to ensure an efficient job.
- Develop autonomous learning strategies.
- Differentiate the discipline’s main theories, its fields, conceptual developments, theoretical frameworks and approaches that underpin knowledge of the subject and its different areas and sub-areas, and acquire systematic knowledge of the media’s structure.
- Manage time effectively.
- Research, select and arrange in hierarchical order any kind of source and useful document to develop communication products.
- Respect the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Rigorously apply scientific thinking.
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate a critical and self-critical capacity.
- Demonstrate a self-learning and self-demanding capacity to ensure an efficient job.
- Describe the structure of the media and its dynamics.
- Develop autonomous learning strategies.
- Identify the media system and groups that have had, at a given point in time, the power to inform, and be able to describe the legal framework that exerts a certain governance on the media.
- Identify the structural foundations of the communication system.
- Manage time effectively.
- Research, select and arrange in hierarchical order any kind of source and useful document to develop communication products.
- Respect the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Rigorously apply scientific thinking.
Content
1. Conceptual delineation and theoretical perspectives. What is a media system? Typology and characteristics. Comparing media systems.
2. Analysis of actors that contribute to the articulation of media systems: Communication groups, business associations, audience measurement bodies and telecommunications companies with businesses in the audiovisual field. The role of the State and independent regulators.
3. Analysis of media sectors (press, radio and television). General overview and characteristics of the offer. New services and new media. Transformation of business or consumption models.
Methodology
Two thirds of face-to-face teaching will be developed with the full group and a third, in seminars with small groups.
Sessions with the full group will consist of lectures held by the faculty, who will explain the contents related to the thematic blocks and solve the doubts regarding the compulsory readings that the students have to do and the work resulting from the self-learning.
The seminars will include in-depth activities, in some cases based on documents (news, academic texts or others). Current issues will be shared and discussed, with the active participation of students, in order to update the agenda and identify key elements relating to the evolution of media systems.
The approach of the subject will incorporate the gender perspective in all possible aspects, from the contents to the methodologies applied to the dynamics of work and student participation in the classroom, so as to facilitate an egalitarian interaction.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Seminars | 17 | 0.68 | 10, 8, 2, 4, 1, 7, 9 |
| Theory | 34 | 1.36 | 3, 1, 5, 6, 9 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Evaluation | 7 | 0.28 | 10, 3, 7, 5, 6 |
| Tutorial | 5 | 0.2 | 4, 1, 7 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Personal study | 80 | 3.2 | 10, 2, 3, 4, 7, 5, 6 |
Assessment
The course consists of the following assessment activities:
1. Various exercises related to the questions treated in the seminar, that will suppose 30% of the qualification. Due to their current nature, these evaluation activities will not be recoverable.
2. Intervention in seminars. The intervention of the seminars will be valued qualitatively (10% of the final grade). This evaluation activity will not be recoverable.
3. Two partial examinations on the theoretical contents, each one of which represents 30% of the final qualification, and that are liberatory of matter.
To pass the subject it is necessary to pass these two exams. In the event of a suspension, you can take part in the recovery, as long as you have previously assessed the two midterm exams and at least one of the other two assessment activities.
If one of the two partial exams is not taken the final grade will be "not assessable".
In the event that the retake of one of the two exams is not passed, the final grade of the subject will be the one obtained in this exam (or the average, if both are failed).
The dates of the evaluation and recovery activities will be announced on the day of the presentation of the subject. The information will also be available on the virtual campus.
Students from the second enrollment
From the second enrollment onwards, students can opt for the assessment by means of a synthesis test, with the option of retaking as long as they have previously presented. The grade of the subject will correspond to the grade of the synthesis test, on which more details will be given at the beginning of the course.
It will be understood that students from thesecond registration who do not communicate explicitly by e-mail and within the deadline announced at the beginning of the course their assessment option will take the synthesis test.
Plagiarism
The student who makes any irregularity (copy, plagiarism, identity theft ...) that could lead to a significant variation of the grade of an evaluation act will have a qualification of 0 in this act of evaluation. In case of various irregularities, the final grade of the subject will be 0
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention in seminars | 10% | 2 | 0.08 | 10, 8, 2, 4, 1, 7, 9 |
| Partial exams | 30% + 30% | 2 | 0.08 | 10, 3, 7, 5, 6 |
| Seminar exercices | 30% | 3 | 0.12 | 10, 3, 7, 5, 6 |
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