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Modern Communication Technologies
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:18.08.2022 11:59:01
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_164 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences | Target Audience: | Information and Communication Science; Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Marta Herca | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Communication | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 16 Dzirciema Street, kfko rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67409183 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 16 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 28 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 5 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 10 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 3 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 6 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Not necessary. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide a theoretical and practical insight into the specifics of the internet environment reviewing media use habits, change of language and relations, importance of a story, diversity of media perception and role, diversity of multimedia environment contents and forms. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Story in online environment. Storytelling | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Photography - basic principles, elements of composition, photography based stories | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Data visualization - tools and formats | Classes | 8.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Social media, branding and community. Multimedia story platforms | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Sound – recording of audio, voice, technique, editing | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Language, text – writing for the internet, typography, text layout, language use. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Video – composition, camera angles, camera movements, editing, interview | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Story in online environment. Storytelling | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Photography - basic principles, elements of composition, photography based stories | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Data visualization - tools and formats | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Social media, branding and community. Multimedia story platforms | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Sound – recording of audio, voice, technique, editing | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Language, text – writing for the internet, typography, text layout, language use. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Video – composition, camera angles, camera movements, editing, interview | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | During the semester the student reads recommended readings and internet sources. Students should share existing and obtained knowledge among themselves during lectures, during discussions outside lectures, thus developing their own and joint knowledge about multimedia. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | |||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students recognise and/or respectively use: • story in online environment, storytelling; • photo – basic principles, quality elements in photography, creation of a photo story; • social media, branding and community; • visualization of data – tools and formats; • sound – recording of audio, voice, technique, editing; • language, text – writing of a text for the internet, typography, text layout, language use; • video – composition, camera angles, camera movements, editing, interview; • multimedia story platforms – their possibilities and shortcomings. | ||||||||
| Skills: | During the course students practically create a multimedia human interest story using reviewed forms – photo, audio, video, infographics – and post it on any internet platform appropriate for the study. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Able to autonomously and responsibly produce, analyse and evaluate multimedia stories. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | The Online Journalism Handbook. Paul Bradshaw & Liisa Rohumaa, 2011 | ||||||||
| 2 | Excellence in Online Journalism, David Craig, 2010. | ||||||||
| 3 | Kelly McErlean, Interactive Narratives and Transmedia Storytelling, Routledge, 2018 | ||||||||
| 4 | Bryan Alexander, The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media, Praeger, 2017 | ||||||||
| 5 | Recep Ylmaz, M. Nur Erdem & Filiz Resulolu, Handbook of Research on Transmedia Storytelling and Narrative Strategies, IGI Global, 2018 | ||||||||
| 6 | Yang Song, Multimedia News Storytelling as Digital Literacies: A Genre-Aware Approach to Online Journalism Education, Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2019 | ||||||||
| 7 | Joe Lambert & Brooke Hessler, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community, Routledge, 2018 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Create Documentary Films, Videos, & Multimedia: A Comprehensive Guide to Using Documentary Storytelling Techniques for Film, Video, the Internet & Digital Media Nonfiction Projects, James R. Martin, 2010 | ||||||||
| 2 | Video Journalism for the Web, Kurt Lancaster, 2012 | ||||||||
| 3 | Model for a 21st Century Newsroom – Redux, Paul Bradshow, 2012 | ||||||||
| 4 | Radiožurnālistika. Sergejs Kruks, 2005 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | The complexities of convergence: Multiskilled journalists working in BBC regional multimedia newsrooms http://gaz.sagepub.com/content/75/1/99.abstract | ||||||||
| 2 | Data journalism and data visualization http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog | ||||||||
| 3 | Nieman journalism lab - a project of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. http://vimeo.com/niemanlab | ||||||||
| 4 | Knight Digital Media Center, Berkeley University http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/ | ||||||||
| 5 | BBC, The Virtual Revolution http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/interviews.shtml | ||||||||
| 6 | http://onlinejournalismblog.com/ | ||||||||
| 7 | Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/ | ||||||||
| 8 | Social media. A handbook for journalists http://sverigesradio.se/press/bilder/swedishradio2013_socme… | ||||||||
| 9 | What good is twitter? The value of social media to public service journalism http://www3.ebu.ch/files/live/sites/ebu/files/Knowledge/Med… | ||||||||
| 10 | http://www.jeadigitalmedia.org/ | ||||||||
