Syllabus
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Course Code: P-302 Course Name: Online Journalism & Social Media |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Spread of Internet: • Internet • Salient features and advantage over traditional media: • History and penetration of internet in India, • Reach and problem of access • Internet and Knowledge Society • Convergence and Multi Media: Print, radio, TV, internet and mobile • IT law, Digital divide, Cyber space & virtual reality |
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| 2 | Online Journalism • Earlier websites of newspapers • E-books and E-publishing, E-papers and E-magazines • Basic Knowledge of HTML and use of a content management system • Hyper-textuality • Multi-mediality and interactivity and UGC-User Generated Content • Use of various online tools to manage text, photos, maps, audio, video, etc. • Status of online Journalism today |
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| 3 | Digital storytelling • Writing news story for websites: Teaser, headline, chunks, intro, fact box, data and graphs • Live story writing, Feature Writing • Trends & tracking • Development and news update • Podcast and webcast |
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| 4 | Citizen Journalism • Responding to the audience • Annotative reporting, Citizen Journalist • Problem of verification, accuracy and fairness • Use of blogs, tweets etc., for story generation and development • Protecting Copyright, Gatekeeping • Live blog, live chat and live update |
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