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Course: 2025/2026

News information graphics
(13311)
Bachelor in Journalism (Study Plan 2017) (Plan: 383 - Estudio: 212)


Coordinating teacher: FRANCO ALVAREZ, MARIA GUILLERMINA

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
This subject are conected with the use and learning of designing tools linked with the information designing.
Objectives
1. Ability to analyze the visual presentation of informative graphics in the press and infographics. 2. Understanding of infographics as a journalistic genre. 3. Technical skills for the creation of informative graphics (infographics) of medium complexity. The student will learn various software tools to create, develop and be able to edit infographics.
Learning Outcomes
K4: Know and use technological and communicational resources to produce, disseminate journalistic information and manage digital communities. S9: Compose and ability to apply the informative component to graphic design and acquisition of infographic competencies, as well as basic IT knowledge for use in different techniques applied to journalism and to digital image treatment. C5: Be able to deal with complex situations or situations that require the development of new solutions both in the academic field and in the work or professional field within the journalistic field.
Description of contents: programme
Infographics in journalistic media is a vision of how narratives are created, edited and built in the press. The purpose is that infographics, the use of maps, statistical tables and diagrams, and the creation of icons help us to represent that textual information and turn it into visual information of what a discipline entails that, although it has gained popularity today, has existed since the beginning. birth of newspapers By tradition, infographics have always been wrongly associated with illustration and the plastic arts, although the paradigm is changing thanks to the more serious and journalistic approaches of the Infographic departments of The New York Times, The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, among others, and in Spain by the newspaper ABC, El Mundo del Siglo XXI and local or regional newspapers such as La Voz de Galicia, which reinforce the use of infographics as a visual narrative tool in their editions. DEVELOPED PROGRAM OF THE SUBJECT: 1. iNFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND SEARCHING FOR EDITING INFOGRAPHIES. 2. BACKGROUND, VISUAL THINKING and CONCEPTUAL APPROACH 3. VISUAL SCHEMATIC AND THE SKETCH. 4. SYMBOLIC METAPHORS: THE SYMBOL, THE ICONICITY AND OTHER RELEVANT ELEMENTS OF THE NARRATIVE. 5. THE INFOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE AND ITS MAIN ELEMENTS. 6. TYPOLOGY OF GRAPHICS AND VARIABLES. 7. CARTOGRAPHY, MAPS, TYPOLOGIES AND USES. 8. SIMPLE AND COMPLEX VISUAL NARRATIVES. VISUAL LITERACY. 9. VISUALIZATION OF INFORMATION AND STRUCTURES. 10. FUTURE TRENDS AND PROSPECTS FOR INFOGRAPHICS: THE VISUALIZATION OF NARRATIVE FORMS.
Learning activities and methodology
Is essential understanding the Infographic in Journalistic Media. By the way the content theoretical and on the other hand adapted the content about of the display and use of infographics in media present.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • CAIRO ALBERTO.. EL ARTE FUNCIONAL: INFOGRAFÍA Y VISUALIZACIÓN DE LA INFORMACIÓN. ALAMUT. 2011
  • CAIRO ALBERTO.. INFOGRAFÍA 2.O.. ALAMUT. 2008
  • CAIRO ALBERTO.. EL ARTE FUNCIONAL: INFOGRAFÍA Y VISUALIZACIÓN DE LA INFORMACIÓN. ALAMUT. 2011
  • CAIRO ALBERTO.. INFOGRAFÍA 2.O.. ALAMUT. 2008
  • FRANCO ÁLVAREZ GUILLERMINA. LA EXPLOSIÓN INFOGRÁFICA EN EL CONFLICTO DEL GOLFO PÉRSICO.. LATINA COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL, SERIE COMUNICACIÓN. . 2003
  • FRANCO ÁLVAREZ GUILLERMINA. INFOGRAFÍA. MAPAS, ESTRUCTURA Y TENDENCIAS EN VISUALIZACIÓN DE INFORMACIÓN.. DYKINSON. 2023 (EN EDICIÓN). MANUAL DE LA ASIGNATURA
  • FRANCO ÁLVAREZ, GUILLERMINA.. INFOGRAFÍA PERIODÍSTICA.. ANROART. 2005
  • VALERO SANCHO, JOSÉ LUIS. LA INFOGRAFÍA : TÉCNICAS, ANÁLISIS Y USOS PERIODÍSTICOS . BELLATERRA, BARCELONA.. 2001

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