Introduction to the study of Social Communication

Students should be able to identify emerging profiles of journalism in the new network society and topics associate to them with different areas of specialized journalism. This is postgraduate course, so it means an introduction to research. For those students who must demonstrate their knowledge about previous academic research, published in the main journals in different areas of communication. The course is not intended as a professional approach, which must have been acquired in undergraduate studies, but allow an approach from communication research. The student should demonstrate they have acquired the skills necessary to initiate an academic research in course from perspective of network society.

Topic 1.- Journalism in the Network Society. Analysis from the Convergent Culture Theory. Topic 2.- Journalism in the Age of Algorithms: Social, political, cultural and media software of the 21st century Topic 3.- Big data and journalism. Analysis of a theoretical paradigm: from mad men to math men Topic 4.- The source as a mass media: updating Jakobson's communicational model Topic 5.- Disinformation and fake news Topic 6.- Social movements and journalism in the Internet era Topic 6.- Analysis of methodologies, projects and research articles applied to emerging journalistic profiles.

The training activities linked to this subject are closely linked to the didactic units taught and the theoretical sessions. In relation to the methodology, a system of expository methodology of the theory will be applied and pedagogical elements and tools will be used to provide interactivity between the student and the teacher in class with pedagogical character, applying for their analysis techniques of group dynamization, exhibitions and analyzing Some of the texts and essays related to the taught subject supported with open debates between the different members of the group that will make up the subject. Finally, the tutoring regime will be face-to-face and personalized with the student of the group to consult questions and bibliography.