54024 The Hive: Collaborative Journalism

Description

In this subject, students work individually and in collaborative groups, locally and globally, and under the guidance of tutors to deepen their understanding of news values, audiences, contemporary crowd sourcing techniques and social media journalism as a means to the practice of global journalistic collaboration. Students use the theory of crowdsourcing extending it to the practice of collaborative journalism, analysing both audience and editorial requirements. Students pair with groups of students at a number of journalism schools in Europe, Scandinavia or Africa, in order to deepen their understanding and practice of journalistic collaboration, producing stories on multiple platforms which can be housed on theme-based websites. Students analyse the impact on journalism of media organisational convergence and the breakdown of media silos. Students gain critical understanding of participation (professional and non-professional) as an emerging core practice of journalism.