This is the opening introductory lecture for the Polis LSE Summer School course. International Journalism and Society - The Role of the Media in the Modern World
It has a lot of technical details about the course but it also includes the basic course outline and ideas. There is more detail about the course here:
7. Polis
The LSE’s Media think-tank
Charlie Beckett’s blog:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/
Follow me on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/CharlieBeckett
The Polis website:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/POLIS/home.a
The Departmental website:
www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/
8. Timetable for IR245
All lectures will be
10-11.15am
All guest speakers will be
11.30-12.30
Seminar 1 will be 2-3pm
Seminar 2 will be 3-4pm
Seminar 3 will be 4-5pm
9. Assessment
Assessment will be by an essay of 1500 words
(worth 30% of the final marks) to be handed in at
10am on Monday July 16th
And an exam of two hours with questions on
aspects of the course (70% of the final marks).
Students will be expected to demonstrate an
understanding of the theoretical background to
journalism studies as well as relate this to case-
studies
It’s optional!
We will help you prepare and you will have two
clear days for revision
Get help here on studying: http://learning.lse.ac.uk/
We will mark them straight away and the Summer
School will give you the results
10. Contacts
For all practical problems: talk to the
Summer School office
For specific IR245 Course issues: email
polis@lse.ac.uk and put ‘Summer School’ in
the subject
11. Today
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11.30am Guest speaker: Connaught
205
2pm-5pm Seminars: Tower 2, Room
V112
12. What will you know after this course?
What’s happening in the world’s news
media
The big ethical issues
All about ‘New Media’
How the media can change the world
About a career in the media: talk to
Charlie Beckett or our guest speakers
Get published on the Polis blog
19. Block 1: What is journalism
today?
Identity: how do you define a journalist?
Ethics: what is good or bad journalism?
Power: what can journalism do to the world?
‘New’ Media: how is journalism changing?
20. Block 2: News in the global context
Globalisation: what happens when news
goes international?
Conflict: how can journalists report well
on war and revolutions?
Suffering: how should we represent
disasters or poverty in the world?
Newsroom perspective: what do
journalists think about suffering?
21. Block 3 Journalism and
ideology
Reporting dissent and protest
WikiLeaks and the new networked news
The power of celebrity to transform
journalism
22. Guest Speakers
The Guardian
BBC News
BBC Academy
Channel 4 documentaries
The Independent
Avaaz.Org
The One Campaign
Russian democracy campaign
PopBitch
UK party political campaigner
23. Media as our environment
“I want to endorse the idea of the media
as an environment, an environment
which provides at the most fundamental
level the resources we all need for the
conduct of everyday life. It follows that
such an environment may be or may
become polluted”
Roger Silverstone Media and Morality
24. Sources
Course handbook
Additional readings on course outline
Key texts:
Silverstone ‘Media and Morality’
Beckett ‘SuperMedia’ and ‘WikiLeaks’
Polis Blog
Twitter – TV – Newspaper – Websites!
Notas do Editor
Welcome to our Summer School. Explain who you are: journalist Explain what Polis is. Today is an introduction to the course. Introduce Joseph Turner course auditor Just be clear about how each day will proceed: All lectures will be 10-11.15am All guest speakers will be 11.30-12.30 Seminar 1 will be 2-3pm Seminar 2 will be 3.15-4.15pm
You are expected to attend all the lectures
Today we are dipping in to the idea that media is undergoing change. If you read my book you will get a guide to how the media is changing and the problems and opportunities that creates. Later we are going to hear about how the BBC is harnessing the new forces of new technology and citizen journalism. Tomorrow you are going to go back to basics. What is News? What are the different theories that describe journalism? It’s going to be a heavy duty bit of theory for you but it will give you the basic terminology so that we can get on to the debate about what media is for and the effects it has. And our guest speaker is a very senior editorial figure from the BBC who has had to grapple with just that – what are the rules for journalism? What do