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Section Information for Spring 2016
History of Journalism students will explore the history of print news, spanning the myth of Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press to today’s technologically enhanced news gathering and presentation across multiple media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Students contribute to a class blog to save research assignments from the entire semester, thereby creating their own first draft of history (see: http://historyofjournalism.onmason.com/).
Journalism has been called the first rough draft of history. This is a particularly fascinating time to study the origins of printing, the book and newspapers as new technologies move information gathering into a new digital age.
A few questions the class will investigate throughout the semester: When and how did news came to be defined as sensational/bad events as opposed to good, or positive, events? How does that create a negative impression of the media and journalists? Students will do this by studying individual themes in the history and development of journalism.
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Credits: 3
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