Five Challenges Facing Journalism Education in the UK

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Frost
Keyword(s):  
Journalism Education ◽  
Analog To Digital ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Key Skills ◽  
The Future ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Massive Change ◽  
The Media ◽  
Journalism Students ◽  
The Uk

Journalism and journalism education has been through a time of massive change over the past 20 years as the media has got to grips with the technology revolution, learning how to deal with the benefits and problems that the move from analog to digital has brought. Now education needs to look to the future to predict what’s coming and to prepare teachers and students for even more change as the interface between humans and the digital world becomes ever closer. Journalism education also needs to take more seriously the need to not just train journalism students but to give them the tools to deal with a fast-moving world where things can change almost month by month. Students can now expect a career of up to 60 years duration and learning how to predict the future, deal with the latest innovations, manage change and identify what is important and what is merely transitory; a glossy distraction rather than a change in basic truths will be key skills for success. Training simply for today’s world is no longer good enough and lets our students down – students need skills for a future that will be more different than any sci-fi artefact film can imagine.

scholarly journals Commentary: Reflecting the new realities of the digital age

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-18
Author(s):  
Matt Mollgaard
Keyword(s):  
Core Competencies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
Education Conference

Three broad themes reflecting the role of the media in the digital age emerged from the Journalism Downunder journalism education conference in Auckland in December 2006. These were trepidation, confusion and celebration. The sense of trepidation relates to a fear of the unknown and unknowable: a sense that digital technologies are changing at a speed that confounds attempts to master them before they morph into new forms. Another theme was the confusion created by the new digital technologies. This confusion is related to the fetish-isation of gadgets and the growing gap between those who have always interacted with the digital world and those who have had it thrust upon them. The third theme was cautious celebration. The power, speed and usefulness of digital creation, transmission and reception opens up communication and the media to people in previously unimaginable ways. This commentary is an overview of papers presented at the conference, with some general conclusions reached about the future of journalism in the digital age. While the new digital platforms and technologies do present significant challenges to traditional journalism, they are also enabling technologies that offer opportunities to reinvigorate newsgathering. Although the future of journalism is a digital one, the core competencies of a good journalist will be as important as ever.

scholarly journals Constructing the "Media Competent" Child: Media Literacy and Regulatory Policy in the UK

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (Media Education) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Buckingham
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Regulatory Policy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
Sociology Of Childhood ◽  
The Uk

Over the past fifteen years, sociologists have mounted an influential challenge to traditional psychological accounts of childhood. The new sociology of childhood has presented a powerful critique of the developmentalist view of children as merely ‹adults in the making›. Such a view, it is argued, judges children only in terms of what they will become in the future, once they have been adequately socialised: they are seen as inherently vulnerable, incomplete and dependent. This article considers how recent research on children and media relates to public policy, and specifically to current debates about media regulation in the UK. Debates about the media are obviously an important arena for contemporary concerns about childhood.

scholarly journals Public Service Broadcasting: The challenge of representing ethnic minority audiences

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-51
Author(s):  
Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Director General ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Media Construction ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk

This paper examines the problems the BBC has in engaging and representing minority audiences. The Director General of the BBC, Tony Hall, has claimed that he wants the future BBC to “represent every family and community in the UK” (June 2014). Not an easy feat when the BBC’s own research indicates that it is failing to attract ethnic minority audiences (BBC Service Review 2012). Critics such as Hall (1990) have suggested the problem is the media construction of “race” as an issue and its definitions. The paper will focus on the BBC Asian Network, a radio station which was almost closed down in 2010, ostensibly because it was the most expensive BBC radio service to operate, and had very low listener figures. Producers and Editors explain the issues they face in attracting and retaining the target audience.

scholarly journals For the lifestyle and a love of creativity: Australian students’ motivations for studying journalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 160 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Folker Hanusch ◽  
Katrina Clifford ◽  
Kayt Davies ◽  
Peter English ◽  
Janet Fulton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Career Expectations ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
The Future ◽  
Journalism Students

A number of studies have examined why students choose to study journalism at university, but overall, this area is still relatively underexplored. Yet, understanding why students choose journalism, and what career expectations they hold, is important not only for educators but also for wider society and public debates about the future of journalism and the value of tertiary journalism education. This article examines the motivations of 1884 Australian journalism students enrolled across 10 universities. It finds that hopes for a varied lifestyle and opportunities to express their creativity are the most dominant motivations among students. Public service ideals are somewhat less important, while financial concerns and fame are least important. These motivations also find expression in students’ preferred areas of specialisation (referred to in Australia as rounds): lifestyle rounds are far more popular than politics and business rounds or science and development rounds.

Big Data - In den Fängen der Datenkraken

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media

Our beautiful, new digital world has a come at a price, which we are paying by relinquishing our personal data–while we are shopping, driving our cars, and chatting and surfing on the Internet. However, the intelligent algorithms needed to process this data pose a threat to freedom in our society. They analyse and evaluate us, while predicting our behaviour. Big data and data mining are the business models of the future. What does all this mean for politics, the economy, journalism and political communication? Do we have to defend basic human rights and human dignity against the digital revolution? Do we need new laws and a code of ethics for algorithms? And how will politics, the media and democracy function under these new conditions? In this book, experts from a variety of academic fields, journalism and politics discuss these questions in terms of the future and society. With contributions by Johanna Haberer, Yvonne Hofstetter, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Klaus Mainzer, Daniel Moßbrucker, Peter Schaar, Michael Schröder, Axel Schwanebeck and Thomas Zeilinger.

Journalism Education in Post-Truth Era: Pedagogical Approaches Based on Indian Journalism Students’ Perception of Fake News

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harikrishnan Bhaskaran ◽  
Harsh Mishra ◽  
Pradeep Nair
Keyword(s):  
Journalism Education ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Attention Economy ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cherry Picking ◽  
Journalism Students ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

The media ecosystem of the post-truth era is shaped by several unprecedented elements—the pitfalls of the personalized/networked media, the cherry picking tendencies of news producers in an attention economy, the propagandist power-elite, and the gullible support of the semi-literate media audience. These post-truth realities also call for new approaches in journalism education to address phenomena like fake news. In this backdrop, this study examines the existing issues in Indian journalism training based on a thematic analysis of focus group discussions with graduate students of journalism at an Indian university about their perception of fake news. It recommends pedagogical approaches to focus on improving journalistic agency in students to deal with fake news situations.

scholarly journals The TRUMP Astrophysics Project: resources for physics teaching

1998 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 320-325
Author(s):  
E. Swinbank
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Physics Teaching ◽  
Advanced Level ◽  
Physics Courses ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Big Bang

Comets and quasars, black holes and the big bang, pulsars and planets all feature in the media and excite people to find out more - astronomy might be described as the popular face of modern science. In the UK, recent changes in Advanced Level (A-level) physics courses mean that many students have the option of studying astrophysics to a depth beyond the merely descriptive. This option is proving popular with teachers and students, but presents particular challenges shared by few other areas of A-level physics courses.

Brexit and Europe. A Commentary

Südosteuropa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Breuilly
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Background Information ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThe Brexit vote was not simply a rejection of the European Union but also of a politics based on calculated self-interest or reasoned idealism. The author outlines how the referendum came about, provides crucial background information, and analyses its results. The reasons for the success of the Leave campaign are concisely presented, including the role of parties other than the Labour and Tory parties and that of the media in promoting, instead of critically assessing, a campaign characterized by exaggerated, even false claims. In his outlook towards the future, the author focuses on the UK/EU relationship and the internal constitutional crisis the Brexit vote has created and the dangers these pose for (further) destabilisation both of Britain and Europe.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL: A cooperative future

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Richards
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
Education Association ◽  
The Media

WELCOME to the first issue of Pacific Journalism Review to be jointly edited by the editors of PJR and Australian Journalism Review. The trigger for this cooperative editorial venture was the major conference held in Auckland in December 2006, involving the Journalism Education Association of New Zealand (JEANZ) and Australia’s Journalism Education Association (JEA). Anyone who has been to New Zealand will appreciate that it is an excellent destination for a conference, and that Auckland is a beautiful part of New Zealand in which to locate it. Titled ‘Journalism Downunder: The future of the media in the digital age’, the conference was hosted (and very well organised) by AUT University in Auckland. It produced a high standard of trans-Tasman discussion and debate, in the process drawing attention to our many areas of common interest and few points of difference.

scholarly journals A University Landscape for the Digital World

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Dominic Orr ◽  
Maren Luebcke ◽  
J. Philipp Schmidt ◽  
Markus Ebner ◽  
Klaus Wannemacher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Diversity In Higher Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Uk

Abstract As the digital transformation clearly highlights the role of universities and institutes of higher education in shaping a higher education system that is more open and provides education to everyone who can benefit from it, this study seeks to analyze, in more detail, what developments are having an impact on higher education and develops future scenarios for education in 2030. The UK study Solving future skills challenges implies that the linear model of education–employment–career will no longer be sufficient in the future, requiring new combinations of skills, experience, and collaboration from educators and employers. This UK study serves as a starting point for the AHEAD trend analysis for a higher education landscape in 2030. Five premises ranging from “No naive innovation view” to “Realistic approach,” and “Diversity in higher education” provide the basis for a search for concepts for the higher education of the future.

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