Class Magazine Journalism in the Digital Age

In Magazine Journalism in the Digital Age, students delve into the world of magazines, a media sector with distinctive characteristics. They analyze the new paradigms and specificities of magazine journalism in the digital age. They discover interconnected journalism and its privileged applicability in the field of magazines. Develop skills in producing pieces for magazines, which involve writing text and preparing visual and multimedia content. The semester focuses on the development of an interconnected multimedia report for a specific magazine.

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1.    The magazine: between theory and practice 1.1 The roots of the modern magazine  1.2 Characteristics of the magazine genre 1.3 Types of magazine 1.4.    The magazine in the media landscape 1.5 Magazine journalism and the digital challenge 1.6.    The online magazine report   2.    Interconnected journalism 2.1 Theoretical framework 2.2 Implications for journalistic practices 2.3 Interconnected journalism, democracy and society 2.4 Magazines: privileged space for Interconnected Journalism 2.5 Multimedia and Interconnected Journalism   3.    Multimedia pieces 3.1 Searching, organizing and managing content 3.2 Main types of multimedia content 3.2.1 Image, video and visual representation of data 3.3 Criteria for composing/interlinking multimedia content 3.4 Multimedia content production techniques 3.5 Examples of multimedia pieces for digital magazines   4.    Project: development of a multimedia report for a digital magazine

The course is organized around a project (an interconnected multimedia magazine report) that is developed over the course of the semester, linking theory and practice, facilitating the acquisition and application of knowledge.

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