Opinion Journalism
| Title | ΣΧΟΛΙΑΣΤΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ / Opinion Journalism |
| Code | Δ206 |
| Faculty | Social and Economic Sciences |
| School | Journalism and Mass Communications |
| Cycle / Level | 2nd / Postgraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter |
| Coordinator | Periklis Politis |
| Common | Yes |
| Status | Inactive |
| Course ID | 140000302 |
| Academic Year | 2017 – 2018 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600108572
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Course Type 2016-2020
- Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600108572
- At the Website of the School:
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Students are expected
-To be able to recognize the various (and partially overlapped) genres of opinion journalism, their organization patterns, their argumentation schemas, their communication objectives and their language.
-To be able to systematically analyze and write (interesting and convincing) editorials,newspaper comments,opinion articles and personal columns.
-To be able to analyze and write opinion articles and personal columns on cultural issues, as well as film, theatre and book reviews.
-To be able to work as professional journalists-writers, columnists and reviewers.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Work autonomously
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
In this two-fold course journalism is being studied in relation both to persuasion and argumentation, and to the various types of literary and art criticism. First, the genres of opinion journalism are described in a contrastive manner and then each genre is construed within its situational and cultural context. Furthermore, the layout of a newspaper’s opinion pages is explained and the symbolic value of the opinion articles as semiotic objects is discussed as well. Next, on the basis of small corpora coming from Greek newspapers and magazines, a systematic approach of most of the opinion genres (editorial, comment, column, chronicle, review, etc) is attempted. The study covers both the structural (schematic structure, text types) and the linguistic (lexico-grammatical) properties of these genres.
Keywords
opinion journalism, editorial, opinion article, comment, column, art review, cultural journalism
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Photocopies, journal articles
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
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| Seminars | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Reading Assigment | ✓ | ✓ | |||
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Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
- Written Assignment (Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Belmonte, I. A. (2007). “Newspaper Editorials and Comment Articles: A ‘Cinderella Genre?’”, RAEL 1: 1-9.
Dubied, A. & M. Lits (1997). “L’éditorial: genre journalistique ou position discursive ?”, Pratiques 94: 49-61.
Erjavec, K. (2004). “Beyond advertising and journalism: hybrid promotional news discourse”, Discourse & Society 15(5): 553-578.
Herman, T. & N. Jufer (2001). “L’éditorial, «vitrine idéologique du journal» ? ”, Semen 13: 135-162.
Holmes, T. (2005). “Creating Identities, Building Communities: Why Comment?”. Στο R. Keeble (ed.) Print Journalism. A Critical Introduction, 160-9. London & New York: Routledge.
Holmes, T. (2005). “Getting personal. How to write comment”. Στο R. Keeble (ed.) Print Journalism. A Critical Introduction, 170-8. London & New York: Routledge.
Ljung, M. (2000). “Newspaper Genres and Newspaper English”. Στο F. Ungerer (ed.) English Media Texts – Past and Presesnt. Language and Textual Structure, 131-149. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins.
Marin-Arrese, J.I. (2007). “Commitment and Subjectivity in the Discourse of Opinion Columns and Leading Articles: A Corpus Study”, RAEL 1: 82-98.
Reynolds, M. (2000). “The blending of narrative and argument in the generic texture of newspaper editorials”, International Journal of Applied Linguistics 10(1): 25-40.
Richardson, J. (2007). “Applying DA: Argumentation and Letters to the Editor”, ch. 6 του Analysing Newspapers. An Approach from CDA, 149-77. New York: Palgrave.
Rodriguez, M.J.G. (2007). “On the Interpretation of Ideology through Comment Articles: Two Views in Opinion Discourse”, RAEL 1: 49-68.
Ungerer, F. (2004). “Ads as news stories, news stories as ads: The interaction of advertisements and editorial texts in newspapers”, Text 24(3): 307-328.
Vestergaard, T. (2000α). “That’s not News: Persuasive and Expository Genres in the Press”. Στο A. Trosborg (ed.) Analyzing Professional Genres, 97-120. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins.
Vestergaard, T. (2000β). “From Genre to Sentence: The Leading Article and its Linguistic Realization”. Στο F. Ungerer (ed.) English Media Texts – Past and Present. Language and Textual Structure, 151-175. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins.
BOORSMA Miranda & Hans VAN MAANEN, «View and Review in the Netherlands: The Role of Theatre Critics in the Construction of Audience Experience», International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 9, no 3 (2003), σσ. 319-335.
ΒΕΡΒΕΡΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ Ζ., «Η κριτική θεάτρου στον Τύπο» στο Π. Πολίτης (επιμ.), Ο λόγος της μαζικής επικοινωνίας. Το ελληνικό παράδειγμα, Θεσσαλονίκη, Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών (Ίδρυμα Μανόλη Τριανταφυλλίδη), 2008, σσ. 444-481.
ΒΕΡΒΕΡΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ Ζ., «Τέχνη και αρθρογραφία γνώμης: Η δημοσιογραφική ταυτότητα του θεατρικού κριτικού», Ζητήματα επικοινωνίας, τ. 14-15 (2012), 73-87.
CAMERON Samuel, «On the Role of Critics in the Culture Industry», Journal of Cultural Economics 19 (1995), σσ. 321-331.
ΚΑΝΑΚΗΣ Κ., «Η στρατηγική χρήση κοινωνιογλωσσικών παραμέτρων στο ευθυμογράφημα της Έλενας Ακρίτα τη δεκαετία του 1980 και σήμερα», στο Π. Πολίτης (επιμ.) Ο λόγος της μαζικής επικοινωνίας. Το ελληνικό παράδειγμα, Θεσσαλονίκη, Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών (Ίδρυμα Μ. Τριανταφυλλίδη), 2008, σσ. 350-380.
ΚΑΣΤΕΛΛΑΝΟΥ Γ.-Φ., «Το χρονογράφημα και η ποίηση της καθημερινότητας», στο Π. Πολίτης (επιμ.) Ο λόγος της μαζικής επικοινωνίας. Το ελληνικό παράδειγμα, Θεσσαλονίκη, Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών (Ίδρυμα Μ. Τριανταφυλλίδη), 2008, σσ. 329-349.
MΠΟΥΡΝΤΙΕ Π., Η διάκριση. Κοινωνική κριτική της καλαισθητικής κρίσης (μτφρ. Κ. Καψαμπέλη), Αθήνα, Πατάκης, 2004.
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VERBOORD M., «The Legitimacy of Book Critics in the Age of the Internet and Omnivorousness: Expert Critics, Internet Critics and Peer Critics in Flanders and the Netherlands», European Sociological Review, Vol. 26, no. 6 (2010). σσ. 623-637.
Last Update
10-10-2017
