Curricular Unit:			Code:
Network Information			885IRED
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
1	Postgraduate	Specialized Journalism	5 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
		Portuguese/English	65
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
To understand the new media system ecology, which abandons the paradigm of massification and adapts to the networked media model, where the journalist loses the monopoly on information. Multimedia, interactivity, synergy and convergence. Adequacy of journalistic content to digital platforms.
Syllabus:
1. The networked society 1.1 Analog and digital information 1.2 Information systems and flows 2. Digital Communication 2.1 Platforms and multimedia tools 2.2 Interactivity and convergence 2.3 Digital Writing 3. Journalism in the Digital Age 3.1 Networked Research 3.2 Social networks and news information 3.3 Search engines and gathering online information 3.4 Information and credibility filters
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
To ensure proper knowledge and understanding of theoretical texts about the networked society, Digital Communication, and journalism in the digital age, the three points of the program focus on the study of theoretical concepts, and ensure the analysis of examples, as well as the application of knowledge using multimedia production and gathering tools.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
Project and paper
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The project, as well as its theoretical context, aim to ensure that students have read and understood the texts studied and discussed in the theoretical lessons, articulating the working practices highlighted in the practical lessons.
Reading:
Boczkowski, P. (2004) Digitizing the News. Innovation in Online Newspapers. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA Deuze, M. (2003) The Web and its journalism: considering the consequences of different types of new media online. New Media and Society 5(2), 203–230 Höyer, S. (2003) Newspapers without journalists. Journalism Studies 4(4), 451–463 Van Couvering, E. (2008) The history of the Internet search engine: navigational media and the traffi c commodity. In Spink, A. and Zimmer, M. (eds) Web Search: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 177–206 Zamith, F. (2008). Ciberjornalismo – As potencialidades da Internet nos sites noticiosos portugueses. Porto: Afrontamento