News Sources and international News Organizations

Course Information
TitleNews Sources and international News Organizations / News Sources and international News Organizations
CodeIP3500
FacultySocial and Economic Sciences
SchoolJournalism and Mass Communications
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate, 2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CoordinatorNikolaos Panagiotou
CommonYes
StatusInactive
Course ID140000386

Programme of Study: Erasmus Plus Programme

Registered students: 15
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
CoreElective CoursesWinter-6
Class Information
Academic Year2018 – 2019
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Total Hours39
Class ID
600126187
Course Type 2016-2020
  • General Knowledge
Course Type 2011-2015
General Foundation
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
1. Understand the role and the importance of international journalism and the new communication frameworks 2. Encourage the critical approach of the coverage and broadcast of International News Organisations, 3. Realise how journalists as shapers of public opinion, but also as recipients of the messages, not only need to reach international issues systematically and consistently,
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an international context
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course aims to provide a general introduction to the historical development and contemporary features of news sources and international news organisations. In this context we examine, the global system of collecting, processing and distribution of news media ( at local, national and global level ) the concept of a changing communications environment and issues such as the management and access to information , the flow of information as well as information overload . The purpose of this course is to help students understand the nature of news in the age of new media and globalisation and to highlight key issues that have to do with the promotion , management and distribution of news globally and locally. The topics examined: political and cultural importance of news sources , role, organization and functioning of international news organizations, structures of national and international communication systems, processes and characteristics of information and cultural content of the media.
Keywords
International News Organizations, News Sources,
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Description
Information and Communication technologies are used in teaching in training and in the communication with the students. The teaching is done by using power point, students are required to use ICTs during their training, while I communicate with the students is done through e-mail and social media
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures✓
Laboratory Work✓✓
Reading Assigment✓✓
Project✓✓
Written assigments✓✓
Total
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Formative)
  • Written Assignment (Summative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
1. Ν. Παναγιώτου (2015) : Διεθνείς Ειδησεογραφικοί Οργανισμοί: Ενημέρωση και Επικοινωνία στον 20ο Αιώνα, Εκδόσεις Πανεπιστημίου Μακεδονία 2. Μ. Κοκκώνης, Γ. Πασχαλίδης, Φ. Μπαντιμαρούδης,(2010). Ψηφιακά Μέσα, Εκδόσεις Κριτική 3. Ν.Δεμερτζής-Α. Σκαμνάκης (2000). Περιφερειακά ΜΜΕ στην Ευρώπη, Εκδόσεις Παπαζήση 4. J. B. Thompson(1999). Νεωτερικότητα και Μέσα Επικοινωνίας, Εκδόσεις Παπαζήση 5. Edelman M., (1999): « Η κατασκευή του πολιτικού θεάματος» Εκδόσεις Παπαζήση
Additional bibliography for study
1. Clausen, L. (2004), Localizing the Global: ‘Domestication’ Processes in International News Production, Media, Culture & Society, 26:25-44. 2. Hafez, K. (2009), Let’s Improve Global Journalism!. Journalism, 10(3):329-331. Cristina Archetti (2008), News coverage of 9/11 and the demise of media flows, globalization and localization hypotheses, The International Communication Gazette, 70(6): 463–485. 3. Beate Josephi (2005), Journalism in the Global Age, The International Journal of Communication Studies, 67(6): 575–590. 4. Χρήστος Α. Φραγκονικολόπουλος & Νίκος Παναγιώτου (2008), Η επίδραση των παγκοσμίων δικτύων ενημέρωσης στην εξωτερική πολιτική και τις διεθνείς σχέσεις, Ζητήματα Επικοινωνίας, τεύχος 7:39-55 5. Gurevitch, M., Levy, M. R. and Roeh, I. (1991), The Global Newsroom: Convergences and Diversities in the Globalization of Television News, σ. 195-216. Στο P. Dahlgren and C. Sparks (eds.), Communication and Citizenship. London: Routledge. 6. Paterson, C. (1997), Global Television News Services, σ. 145-60. Στο A. Sreberny-Mohammadi, D. Winseck, J. McKenna and O. Boyd-Barrett (eds.), Media in Global Context: A Reader. London: Hodder Arnold. 7. Giffard, A.C. (2001) Report of the UNESCO Workshop: news agencies in the era of the Internet. Paris: UNESCO. 8. Boyd-Barrett, O. (2000) ‘National and international news agencies’, Gazette, 62(1): 5-18. Ιστοσελίδες 1. International Center for Journalists. http://www.icfj.org 2. International Journalists’ Network. http://ijnet.org 3. Global Journalism Centre. http://www.oru.se/English/Schools/School-of-Humanities-Education-and-Social-Sciences/Education/Global-Journalism1/Global-Journalism-Center-GJC 4. News Agencies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_agency
Last Update
13-07-2015