M.A. Journalism and Society: journalists investigating journalism
Programme Leader: Dr Andrew Calcutt
Designed by journalists for journalists, this programme is the place for professionals to think about journalism. We invite you to step back from your production cycle and review both the routines of journalism and its instabilities.
Right now the talk of the town formerly known as Fleet Street is user generated content and its 'revolutionary' effects on professional journalists. Many professionals are behaving as if self-publishing technology is a law unto itself. That's how they experience it in their day-to-day working lives. Yet in the long view, such software is not autonomous. As a Journalism and Society student, you will be prompted to understand user-generated-content as the popular response to questions which public sphere professionals such as journalists, PRs, policy wonks and politicians, have failed to answer.
Questions such as:
* what's the point of today's politics?
* in the absence of substantive politics - politics that matters, what is journalism for nowadays?
*who do journalists think they are, now that defining principles such as 'objectivity' are largely discredited, even among ourselves?
These are the some of the questions which we explore in taught modules and through supervised dissertations. Other topics include intellectual property, celebrity, and changing definitions of the craft of news reporting.
If you can think hard enough to address these issues and more, why not enrol on MA Journalism and Society? For September 2007, the applications deadline is Friday 13th July. You can apply online.
Notes:
MA Journalism and Society is linked to Rising East , the online inquiry into the re-making of East London and the Thames Gateway
Many of the teaching sessions for MA Journalism and Society occur in the late afternoon or early evening so as to allow students to continue their professional lives uninterrupted. Teaching takes place at the Docklands campus of the University of East London.
For more information, contact Dr Andrew Calcutt
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