MDST 3104 - Making (and Faking) the News

Effective Date 08/01/2019
The course uses theories of social construction to examine the relationship between news and reality. With this as our framework, we apply various critical perspectives to examine the way news “reality” is constructed, from the discursive and semiotic frameworks used to present current events as “stories,” to how journalists make decisions about what is news, to the factors that structure news form and content.

Credits: 3