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”Våga sitta still i båten” : en studie om hur journalistutbildningar lär ut sociala medier

Malmgren, Christina LU and Themner, Hedda LU (2018) JOUK10 20172
Journalism
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyse what journalism educations in Sweden teaches to their students and how they keep the education updated in relation to the current media landscape.
The thesis focuses on the use of social media in journalism. As social media is becoming
more popular, it is starting to become an attractive platform for companies in the news field.
The analysis is based on five interviews with teachers from five different journalism
educations, the course plans for the educations and one interview with a person working with
social media and journalism. Theorys about social media, digital transformation, storytelling
and media ethics is used in the analysis to understand and contextualize the answers from the
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The purpose of this study is to analyse what journalism educations in Sweden teaches to their students and how they keep the education updated in relation to the current media landscape.
The thesis focuses on the use of social media in journalism. As social media is becoming
more popular, it is starting to become an attractive platform for companies in the news field.
The analysis is based on five interviews with teachers from five different journalism
educations, the course plans for the educations and one interview with a person working with
social media and journalism. Theorys about social media, digital transformation, storytelling
and media ethics is used in the analysis to understand and contextualize the answers from the
interviews. The educators all agree that social media is important to journalists in their work
today. But only two of the five educations mention social media in their course plans. They
all try to incorporate social media in their education, but often as a complement to the more
traditional news channels. They rarely educate students in social media skills or social media
storytelling, at least not with a practical learning method. All of them express that it is
important to think extra about ethics when you work with social media. Finally, they believe
it is important to keep the education updated with the current media landscape, but they also
emphasize the importance of not changing the education according to all new trends. (Less)
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author
Malmgren, Christina LU and Themner, Hedda LU
supervisor
organization
course
JOUK10 20172
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Social media, journalism education, social media skills, storytelling, media ethics
language
Swedish
id
8934401
date added to LUP
2018-02-01 08:44:11
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2018-02-01 08:44:11
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  abstract     = {{The purpose of this study is to analyse what journalism educations in Sweden teaches to their students and how they keep the education updated in relation to the current media landscape.
The thesis focuses on the use of social media in journalism. As social media is becoming
more popular, it is starting to become an attractive platform for companies in the news field.
The analysis is based on five interviews with teachers from five different journalism
educations, the course plans for the educations and one interview with a person working with
social media and journalism. Theorys about social media, digital transformation, storytelling
and media ethics is used in the analysis to understand and contextualize the answers from the
interviews. The educators all agree that social media is important to journalists in their work
today. But only two of the five educations mention social media in their course plans. They
all try to incorporate social media in their education, but often as a complement to the more
traditional news channels. They rarely educate students in social media skills or social media
storytelling, at least not with a practical learning method. All of them express that it is
important to think extra about ethics when you work with social media. Finally, they believe
it is important to keep the education updated with the current media landscape, but they also
emphasize the importance of not changing the education according to all new trends.}},
  author       = {{Malmgren, Christina and Themner, Hedda}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{”Våga sitta still i båten” : en studie om hur journalistutbildningar lär ut sociala medier}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}