Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2501933 Journalism | FB | 1 | 2 |
Follow-up of news about the media system (mainly in Catalonia, Spain and Europe) is recommended.
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.
1. Conceptual delineation and theoretical perspectives. What is a media system? Typology, characteristics and actors. Comparing media systems.
2. Analysis of actors that contribute to the articulation of media systems: public media, private communication groups, business associations, audience measurement bodies and telecommunications companies and digital platforms with businesses in the audiovisual field. The role of the State and independent regulators.
3. Analysis of media sectors (press, radio, television and digital environment). General overview, characteristics of the offer and regulation. Transformation of business or consumption models.
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, that may include interactive activitites, 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 planned self-learning work.
The seminars will include practical activities aimed at helping to develop a deep understanding of the course topics. It may require searching and analyzing in advance different types of learning resources (pieces of news, academic texts, reports, etc.). 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.
On the day of the presentation of the subject, more detailed information on the organization of the sessions will be given, and the Virtual Campus will be used to upload teaching materials and information for the proper follow-up of the subject.
In case of a change of teaching modality for health reasons, teachers will make readjustments in the schedule and methodologies.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Seminars | 17 | 0.68 | 14, 5, 6, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 |
Theory | 34 | 1.36 | 3, 14, 5, 6, 4, 7, 8, 11, 10, 12, 13, 18, 17, 16 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Evaluation | 7 | 0.28 | 3, 14, 5, 6, 4, 7, 8, 11, 10, 12, 18, 16 |
Tutorial | 5 | 0.2 | |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Personal study | 80 | 3.2 | 3, 14, 5, 6, 4, 8, 11, 10, 18, 16 |
The course consists of the following assessment activities:
1. Various exercises related to the questions treated in the seminar, that will suppose 20% 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. Other practical follow-up activities that could be done either in the seminar or in the lecture sessions. They will be detailed the first day of class and together they will be worth 10% of the final degree.
4. Two partial examinations on the theoretical contents, each one of which represents 30% of the final qualification, and that are liberatory of matter.
In order to pass the course, a grade equal to or higher than 4 must be obtained in both midterm exams and the average of both must be equal to or higher than 5. In case of failing, 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 recovery of one of the two exams is not passed, because a grade lower than 4 is obtained in it or, even being between 4 and 4.9, the student does not achieve an average grade of 5 with the other midterm exam, the final grade of the course will be the one obtained in this failed exam (or the average of the two midterm exams 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 may choose to be evaluated by the same evaluation system as the first enrollment students or only by taking the two mid-term exams provided for the first enrollment students, but in order to pass they must obtain a grade equal to or higher than 4 in these two mid-term exams and the average of both must be equal to or higher than 5. In case of failing, students will be able to opt for the recovery of each one of the mid-term exams, as long as they have been previously evaluated in both of them.
If the student chooses the second evaluation system, the grade of the course will correspond to the average of these two mid-term exams, as long as he/she has obtained a grade equal to or higher than 4 in both of them. If one of them is not taken, the final grade will be "not evaluable" and if one of them is failed with a grade lower than 4, the final grade of the course will be the one obtained in this exam (or the average between the two, if both are failed).
It will be understood that students from the second 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 two mid-term examen.
Plagiarism
In the event that the student performs any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation of an evaluation act, this evaluation act will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that could be instructed. In the event, that several irregularities occur in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade for this subject will be 0.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Intervention in seminars | 10% | 2 | 0.08 | 3, 1, 14, 2, 5, 6, 4, 7, 8, 11, 10, 9, 12, 13, 18, 15, 16, 19 |
Mid-term exams | 30% + 30% | 2 | 0.08 | 3, 2, 5, 6, 4, 7, 8, 11, 10, 12, 18, 17, 15, 16 |
Practical follow-up activities | 10% | 1 | 0.04 | 3, 14, 2, 5, 6, 4, 7, 8, 11, 10, 12, 13, 18, 17, 15, 16 |
Seminar exercices | 20% | 2 | 0.08 | 3, 14, 2, 5, 6, 4, 7, 8, 11, 10, 12, 13, 18, 17, 15, 16 |
Basic bibliography:
CEREZO, Pepe (2022). Deconstruyendo los medios. Cómo adaptar las empresas de comunicación al entorno digital. Córdoba: Editorial Almuzara.
CIVIL i SERRA, Marta; LÓPEZ, Bernat (Eds.) (2021). Informe de la comunicació a Catalunya 2019-2020. Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya. Col·lecció Lexikon Informes, 7: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/245270
HALLIN, Daniel; MANCINI, Paolo (2008). Sistemas de medios comparados. Tres modelos de relación entre los medios de comunicación y la política. Barcelona: Hacer.
NEWMAN, Nic; FLETCHER, Richard; ROBERTSON, Craig T. ; EDDY, Kirsten; KLEIS NIELSEN, Rasmus. (2022). Digital News Report 2022. Oxford: Reuters Institute. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/es/digital-news-report/2022
SALAVERRÍA, Ramón; MARTÍNEZ-COSTA, Pilar (Eds.) (2021) Medios nativos digitales en España. Caracterización y tendencias. Salamanca: Comunicación Social.
Additional bibliography:
AGUADO-GUADALUPE, Guadalupe (2018). Las relaciones Prensa-Estado en el reparto de publicidad institucional en España. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodistico, 24(2), 993.
ALMIRON, Núria (2010). Journalism in crisis. Corporate Media and Financialization. Cresskill: Hampton Press.
CEREZO, Pepe (2018). Los medios líquidos. La transformación de los modelos de negocio. Barcelona: Editorial UOC.
CONSELL DE L'AUDIOVISUAL DE CATALUNYA (2022). Informe 2021. L'audiovisual a Catalunya. Barcelona: Consell de l'Audiovisual de Catalunya.
CONSELL DE L'AUDIOVISUAL DE CATALUNYA (2017). Llibre blanc de l'audiovisual de Catalunya. Barcelona: Consell de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya. https://www.cac.cat/sites/default/files/2018-03/Acord_6_2017_llibre_blanc_0.pdf
DÖNDERS, Karen (2019). Public service media between theory, rules and practice. Londres: Palgrave Macmillan.
FERNÁNDEZ ALONSO, Isabel (Ed.) (2017). Austeridad y clientelismo. Política audiovisual en España en el contexto mediterráneo y de la crisis financiera. Barcelona: Gedisa.
GARCÍA SANTAMARÍA, José Vicente (2016). Los grupos multimedia españoles. Análisis y estrategias. Barcelona: Editorial UOC.
PEIRANO, Marta (2019). El enemigo conoce el sistema: Manipulación de ideas, personas e influencias después de la economía de la atención. Barcelona: Debate.
TÚÑEZ-LÓPEZ, Miguel; CAMPOS-FREIRE, Francisco; y RODRÍGUEZ-CASTRO, Marta (Eds.) (2021). The values of public service media in the Internet society. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
ZALLO, Ramón (2011) Estructuras de la comunicación y la cultura. Políticas para la era digital. Barcelona: Gedisa.
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