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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Leonard Reinecke
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
SE LatestDevelopment
Credits:
5,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Allocation scheme: FB03
Requirements / organisational issues:
First session: Monday, November 5th, 2018
Three sessions will be double sessions due to late beginning, dates will be announced.
Contents:
Kurs A (Jakobs) & Kurs B (Reinecke):
Communication is an impressively dynamic and fast developing field of research. The course "Latest Developments in Communication" aims at keeping up with the constant flow of communication research by reviewing the latest theory building and the empirical findings of the field. For this purpose, students will read, present, and discuss numerous research papers presented at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) in May 2018.
The ICA is the most influential academic organization of international communication researchers worldwide. The research represented at the ICA conferences represents the state of the art of the field. Research presented at the conference is subject to strict peer-review, granting highest standards of academic excellence. The course will cover research from various divisions of ICA, among them the Mass Communication, Communication and Technology, Political Communication, and Journalism Divisions. Many papers reviewed in the course have received Top Paper Awards from their respective Division. The seminar thus provides students with the chance to get to know the latest top research from the field of communication even before the results have been published in academic journals.
The course will be held in English.
Course C (Möller):
As a consequence of the latest transformations in the global informational ecosystem, communication and media researchers are confronted with a number of new key questions. Notions such as hybrid media systems or issues such as digital privacy management hint to current developments in the interaction of information and media technologies on the one hand and democratic societies on the other hand. This class provides students with an overview over political and economic key aspects in this transformative process. We will look into civil society, journalism, politics, business models and technologies.
In this class students will improve their skills in searching for, reading and understanding contemporary communication and media science literature. This includes understanding how to structure and write a seminal paper. Students will also improve their writing and feedback competences. Teaching language is English. Active participation and extensive reading are required.
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