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Course: 2024/2025

New theoretical frameworks of communication in the internet age

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Master in Applied Research in Media (Plan: 193 - Estudio: 248)

EPH

Coordinating teacher: CARRERA ALVAREZ, MARIA PILAR

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Compulsory

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 1º

Semester: 1º

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

This course is part of the Jean Monnet Chair "EU, Disinformation and Fake News"

Objectives

Students will be able to: Apply media theories and their related conceptual frameworks to analyze and understand current mediated communication practices and processes.

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

1.- Communication in the Network Society. Analysis from the Convergent Culture Theory Approach. 2.- Civilization of Algorithms: Study of the Social, Political, Cultural and Media Software of the 21st Century. 3.- Big data and Communication. Analysis of a Theoretical Paradigm Change: From Mad Men to Math Men 4.- The Source as a Mass Media: Updating Jakobson's Communicational Model 5.- Disinformation and fake news 6.- Social Movements and Communication in the Internet Age 7.- Analysis of methodologies, projects and research articles applied to the new theoretical frameworks of communication in the Internet era

Learning activities and methodology

Lectures Seminars Screnings Textual / Film analysis Forums Office hours will be held on Thursdays or by appointment

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination 50
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Calendar of Continuous assessment

As a postgraduate course, with initiation to research, students must demonstrate their knowledge of academic research that has been published previously on different topics.  The aim is not so much a professional approach, which must already have been acquired in undergraduate studies, but, above all, an approach to the new theoretical bases that allow mass communication to be understood in the age of the Internet. 

The student must demonstrate that he or she has acquired the necessary tools so that he or she can initiate research on any aspect of the topics addressed in class using the different methodologies common in the social sciences.

It will be evaluated if the student is capable of solving the questions that communication in the age of the Internet presents, from the perspective of scientific research.

The evaluation will consist of an examination of the subject as well as an essay on some of the topics taught in the course for the ordinary evaluation. In the extraordinary evaluation, an exam about the subject will be conducted. 

To pass this subject, it is needed to reach a mark of 5 points from a maximum of 10 points in both parts, the theory and the practice.

Basic Bibliography

Alexander, J.C; Butler Breese, E and Luengo, M (eds) . The crisis of journalism reconsidered. Cambridge Universtiy Press. 2016
Elías, C. Science on the Ropes. Decline of Scientific Culture in the Era of Fake News. Springer-Nature. 2019
Elías, C. El selfie de Galileo. Software social, político e intelectual del siglo XXI. Península-Planeta. 2015
Elías, C.. Big data y Periodismo en la Sociedad Red. Síntesis. 2015
Elías-Pérez, C., & Catalan-Matamoros, D.. Coronavirus: Fear to «official» fake news boosts WhatsApp and alternative sources. . Media and Communication. 2020
Kenski, K and Hall Jamieson, K (eds) . The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication. Oxford University Press. 2017
Langer, F . The digital transformation of news media and the rise of disinformation and fake news - An economic perspective. Digital Economy Working Paper JRC Technical Reports. European Commission. . 2018
Nguyen, A., & Catalan-Matamoros, D. . Digital Mis/Disinformation and Public Engagment with Health and Science Controversies: Fresh Perspectives from Covid-19. . Media and Communication. 2020
Otto, K and Andreas Köhler, A (Eds). Trust in Media and Journalism: Empirical Perspectives on Ethics, Norms, Impacts and Populism in Europe. Springer-Nature. 2018
Salmon, Ch. Storytelling: The machine that fabricates histories and forms spirits. Pensilvania State University (edición en español en Península, 2009). 2008

Electronic Resources *

PEW RESEARCH CENTER · State of the news media. Project for Excellence in Journalism : http://www.journalism.org/2015/04/29/state-of-the-news-media-2015/
REUTERS · Reuters Institute Digital News Report : http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/

Additional Bibliography

AAVV. Scientific Research in the media.. European Commission Report. 2007
Bauer, M W. y Bucchi, M. Journalism, Science and Society.. Routledge. 2007
Castells, M.. Comunicación y Poder. Alianza. 2009
Coleman, B. . Hello Avatar. Rise of the Networked Generation. . MIT Press. 2011
Diezhandino, M.P; Carrera, P. et al. . Periodismo en la era de Internet. Ariel. 2008
Eco, U. . Apocalípticos e integrados ante la cultura de masas. Lumen. 2008
Jenkins, H y Thorburn. D. . Democracy and new media. . MIT Press. 2003
Jenkins, H. . Convergence Culture. . New York Univerity Press. Nueva York. (edición en español en Paidós, 2008). 2006

Electronic Resources *

Carlos Elías · cátedra Jean Monnet de UE, desinformación y fake news : http://https://www.uc3m.es/investigacion/catedras-investigacion/jean-monnet-chair-eu-disinformation-fake-news

(*) Access to some electronic resources may be restricted to members of the university community and require validation through Campus Global. If you try to connect from outside of the University you will need to set up a VPN

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.