The curricular unit explores Digital Journalism in five dimensions:
- Journalism in the Platform Society;
- Digital Journalism in traditional media;
- Digital Journalism in the News Media;
- Professional Journalists: new practices and methods;
- Journalism in Digital Culture.
The discipline adopts a multidisciplinary perspective – anchored on Social and Human Sciences, focusing on Media and Journalism Studies. The curricular unit is based on the sociopolitical context of Data Capitalism (Chandler and Fuchs, 2019) and the Platform Society (van Djick, Poell and Wall, 2018) to discuss the roles of Journalism as a structure of dialogue, conflict, negotiation and consensus in the Public Sphere. In the context of contemporary democracies and the Normative Roles of Journalism (Christians et al, 2008), the subject discusses the challenges of Digital Journalism in traditional media. In the scenario of Media Life (Deuze, 2011), which have been challenged identities and sociability’s, the discipline reflects on the dilemmas of Journalism in the News Media. The digital sphere has provided the emergence of new practices, production methods and journalistic content (hybrids of information, opinion and entertainment), which imposes the discussion of the normative, ethical and structural dimensions of journalistic activity. Finally, in a social reality in which the 'real' and the 'digital' interpenetrate, journalism is discussed as culture, propagator of sociocultural practices and producer of cultural content.
