Course Details
Country:
France
Institution:
Sciences Po - Reims campus
Course Title:
MEDIA AND NARRATIVE CENTER - HOW TO READ AND DECODE THE NEWS
Course Number:
BMET 27A06
Course Description:
With a news cycle that never stops and the bustle of social media, the ever growing quantity of information available to us is overwhelming. So where does a news consumer begin? What qualifies as news? How can we tell what's true? How can we distinguish the important from the banal? Looking at key elements of journalism, participants in this workshop will develop skills for critical thinking that will help them become better informed so that they can make better decisions. Descriptif du cours / Course description Session1 : A) Is the news representative “People tend to suppose journalists are where the news is…Not so. News is where the journalists are…” B) Different types of news stories UK tabloid readers agree such papers are more interested in a getting story than telling the truth… Session 2 : Stories doomed to fail. The negative takes priority over the positive
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
GOVT 444, GOVT 398
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