ITM21415 Digital Journalism (Spring 2016)

The course is connected to the following study programs

This course is comulsory in:

• Bachelor in Digital Media Production (2014 year group)
• Bachelor in Digital Media (2015 year group)

The student's learning outcomes after completing the course

Knowledge:

The student has

• knowledge about the history and social role of digital journalism
• knowledge about the work methods of and ethical issues relating to digital journalism
• knowledge about different journalistic methods for obtaining, assessing, preparing and presenting information with the help of digital tools

Skills:

The student is capable of

• producing digital journalistic products and communicating them on different media platforms
• assessing, reflecting on and communicating his/her own digital journalism work in a reliable way

General competence:

The student has

• an understanding of how digital technology interacts with the craft of journalism
• an understanding of ethical issues relating to digital journalism

Content

• Introduction to journalism
• Journalistic method
• Digital journalism
• Data
• Analysis
• Presentation

Forms of teaching and learning

Lectures, supervision, lab exercises, individual work and project work.

Examination

Group project and individual report

A final grade is awarded on the basis of two partial exams. Each partial exam must be passed in order to pass the whole course.

Partial exam 1 is a group project that counts 60%. Group grades are awarded for the project.

Partial exam 2 is an individual report that counts 40%. Individual grades are awarded for the report.

An overall individual final grade is awarded for the course using grading scale A to F.

In the case of resit or rescheduled examinations, each part of the examination may be retaken and the results will be combined into one grade. In the case of resit and rescheduled examinations, the content of the group project and the individual report must be agreed with the course instructor.

Course evaluation

This course is evaluated as follows:

• Mid-semester evaluation (optional)
• Final evaluation (compulsory)

The course instructor prepares a course report on the basis of student feedback and on his/her own experiences of the course. Course reports are discussed with the Committee for Study Quality at the Faculty of Computer Sciences.

Literature

Handgaard, B., Simonsen, A.H, Steensen, S., 2013. Journalistikk: en innføring. Gyldendal akademisk.

Gray, J., Bounegru, L., Chambers, L., 2012. The data journalism handbook. O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, CA. http://datajournalismhandbook.org/

Meyer, P., 2002. Precision journalism: a reporter's introduction to social science methods, 4th Revised edition. ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Oxford.