Transmedia storytelling in journalism
ECTS: 4
Year/Semester: 3 . years, 6 . semester
Total hours: 32
Lecturers
Course objectives
To take the students through the history of the development of transmedia forms of journalism and the specifics of its storytelling, its significance for societies, which are thematic. Getting to know the current trends and circumstances that make up Croatian and global transmedia storytelling in journalism. To acquaint them with the basic terms of interactive multimedia and therefore multi-platform journalism and the history of its emergence and its growing social influence. To warn them about the differences in narrative structures in a particular version of journalism, depending on the platforms on which we publish them. Instruct them on the advantages and consequences of the liberalization of the creation of journalistic works with the advent of multimedia platforms, from liberalization in the technological sense, a context that no longer depends only on educated journalists, to the reach of the audience and its interactive direct influence on the content of journalistic work. To acquaint students with all possible platforms, but also with new technical means of creating interactive journalistic work, as well as the meaning of the difference in the platforms on which they are placed and the means by which they are created. To enable and train the student to independently create interactive journalistic work, in all its project phases. To provide the student with the necessary basic knowledge of the distribution of interactive journalistic transmedia work, adapted to the individual platforms on which it is placed.
Learning outcomes
To take the students through the history of the development of transmedia forms of journalism and the specifics of its storytelling, its significance for societies, which are thematic. Getting to know the current trends and circumstances that make up Croatian and global transmedia storytelling in journalism. To acquaint them with the basic terms of interactive multimedia and therefore multi-platform journalism and the history of its emergence and its growing social influence. To warn them about the differences in narrative structures in a particular version of journalism, depending on the platforms on which we publish them. Instruct them on the advantages and consequences of the liberalization of the creation of journalistic works with the advent of multimedia platforms, from liberalization in the technological sense, a context that no longer depends only on educated journalists, to the reach of the audience and its interactive direct influence on the content of journalistic work. To acquaint students with all possible platforms, but also with new technical means of creating interactive journalistic work, as well as the meaning of the difference in the platforms on which they are placed and the means by which they are created. To enable and train the student to independently create interactive journalistic work, in all its project phases. To provide the student with the necessary basic knowledge of the distribution of interactive journalistic transmedia work, adapted to the individual platforms on which it is placed.