2023_24
Educational guide 
Faculty of Arts
A A A 
english 
Bachelor's Degree in Journalism (2009)
 Subjects
  INTERNET JOURNALISM
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1) Journalism in the new communicative context A new environment: conversation, saturation, immediacy, multimedia. The new role of the journalist. The writing of cyber news. Definition of a cybermedia. Advances and disadvantages in the network. Definition of the Long Tail theory.
2) Digital journalism trends Analysis of the main capitals of Spain and Catalonia. Detection of the brossa journalism. The influence of social networks. The establishment of the cybermedia as a model of communicative services. The characteristics of sports journalism on the web. How to achieve credibility and performance on the Internet?
3) Citizen journalism The irruption of citizens as journalists. Dan Gillmor's theory. Can a citizen be a journalist? The influence of social and cultural contexts in citizen journalism. Advantages and disadvantages of this type of journalism.
4) User participation and social networks The use of social networks by cybermedia. Application of journalistic criteria that are not very rigorous. Models of comment management. Tendency towards participation control. Lack of innovative participation models.
5) Business models on the network From information to informationtainment. Parallel services associated with advertising. The sale and sponsorship of contents. Payment models at national and international level. The conception of the media as a company beyond journalism. The creation of reader-revenue companies.
6) Local and thematic digital journalism The creation of journalistic projects on the Internet from the proximity. Advantages, difficulties and uncertainties. Overview of digital journalism in the Camp de Tarragona. The creation of micro audiences and their performance. Thematic digital journalism.