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In today's digital age of deceptive information abundance, news consumers can be lost in a flood of misinformation, viral cliches, ad and propaganda. This five-week course gives you the critical thinking techniques for the conscious work with this increasing flood.
Also, we'll cover the internal principles of production and distribution of quality news - the main journalism product that helps the democratic system to resist such diseases as a crisis of confidence, populism or radicalism. These skills are quite useful for any responsible citizen but they are crucial for civil societies in the post-Soviet space, where independent journalism is still quite young and often unable to fully counteract pressure from corporations and authorities.
What You Will Learn:
- distinguish verified journalistic reports from similar information products like ads, propaganda, or entertainment
- determine the degree of reliability of the news by analyzing its structure, presentation, evidence, sources and language
Syllabus
WEEK 1: Responsible news consumption as the basis for the development of civil society
WEEK 2: News in post-soviet realm
WEEK 3: Journalistic verification: how it works
WEEK 4: Between fairness and balance
WEEK 5: Fake news and post-truth as alternative vision of news
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