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DJ6129: Social Media and Digital Production
Semester 1 | Credits: 10
This module aims to give students the professional production skills to operate competently as a professional journalist as well as understanding current theory and best practice in editorial design and production.
(Language of instruction: English)
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate a critical and comprehensive knowledge of current research and scholarship on editorial production across multiple platforms.
- Operate a range of hardware and software used in editorial production across multiple platforms.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of the processes involved in sourcing, producing editorial content including the ethical principles, and copyright and legal restrictions.
- Evaluate, plan and implement strategies for improving editorial content and increasing audiences across multiple digital channels.
- Demonstrate self-direction and originality in tackling and solving problems; in particular with working in teams, managing creativity and negotiating complexities in editorial practice across multiple platforms.
Assessments
- Continuous Assessment (100%)
Teachers
- UINSIONN MAC DUBHGHAILL:
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- KAREN M WALSH:
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- TOM FELLE:
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- Kelly Fincham:
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- Jonathan Albright:
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Reading List
- "Adobe Premiere Pro CC Classroom in a Book (2018 Release)" by Maxim Jago
ISBN: 9780134853239.
Publisher: Pearson Professional - "Editorial Design" by Cath Caldwell,Yolanda Zappaterra
ISBN: 9781780671642.
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing - "Social Media for Journalists" by Megan Knight,Clare Cook
ISBN: 9781446211137.
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Note: Module offerings and details may be subject to change.