ATS2784 · Monash University
News and power
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 2
- Workload
- ≈ 12 h / week
- Faculty
- Arts
What it covers
This unit provides you with an opportunity for a critical engagement with contemporary scholarship on the sociology and political economy of news production; news organisations and practices in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors; news media formats and representation. It asks you to think critically about industrial and post-industrial news media; journalism, public relations and politics; journalism and social diversity; journalism and the public sphere; technologies, time and space in news media. The unit takes a comparative approach to historical and geographical contexts.
Assessment
| Task | Type | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reflection | Written | 20% |
| Essay | Written | 45% |
| Presentation | Presentation | 35% |
When and where
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | Caulfield | On-campus |