Weekly outline
- General
- 1. 12 September - 18 September
- 2. 19 September - 25 September
2. 19 September - 25 September
Introduction to media language and communication: a focuse on media users and media power
- 3. 26 September - 2 October
3. 26 September - 2 October
Introduction to media language and communication: news writing, differnt wording, different attitudes
- 4. 3 October - 9 October
4. 3 October - 9 October
Looking for news articles for the same event and prepare your initial analysis to indicate the difference in writing styles
- 5. 10 October - 16 October
- 6. 17 October - 23 October
- 7. 24 October - 30 October
- 8. 31 October - 6 November
- 9. 7 November - 13 November
9. 7 November - 13 November
Mid-term exam : submit online and please read closely the instructions. Use the attached word file to include your analysis. The deadline is Wednesday 12:00 pm of week 9.
- 10. 14 November - 20 November
10. 14 November - 20 November
TV news broadcasting and audience engagement (practice and design in class, preparing for presentation of your own news)
- 11. 21 November - 27 November
11. 21 November - 27 November
Goffman's footing : analysis of politicians public speech and the role positions
& TV broadcasting demonstration (電視播報演練在此周次)
- 12. 28 November - 4 December
12. 28 November - 4 December
CDA (critical discourse analysis) : an introduction of the research approach
- 13. 5 December - 11 December
- 14. 12 December - 18 December
- 15. 19 December - 25 December
- 16. 26 December - 1 January
16. 26 December - 1 January
multimodal critical discourse analysis , visual grammar
please tell me the reserach topic you are going to develop in your final presentation
seeking advice from me in this week if you need assistance for the final presentation
- 17. 2 January - 8 January
17. 2 January - 8 January
report week:
1. please present orally your findings regarding a self-chosen topic based on your small-scaled survey or study (no limit to the amount or size of data or samples); the content should include a introduction, some review of relevant studies (at least two papers), what methods/appraoches you employed for the study, data collection process, description of your data, your main findings supported with your data (displayed if necessary), your conclusion along with some insights or implications (about twenty minutes per person). The presentation can be in English or in Chinese. Possible directions of topics must be relevavnt to the themes covered in this course (for details, check your handouts again)
2. if you fail to come up with a research topic for your small-scaled study, you can try to conduct a literature review of studies relevant to a wider topic and predict what can be possible research trends for that topic. Present as if you are buildling a research proposal for the chosen research title.
- 18. 9 January - 15 January
18. 9 January - 15 January
final essay week: convert your orallly presented information into a well-written essay (intro, review of relevant studies, data/research apporach, findings and conclusion), no limit to wordcount (but to make the study clearly and fully stated), Chinese or English up to you (submit the essay by the midnight of Tuesday, in the final week)
《尊重智慧財產權，請使用正版教科書，勿非法影印書籍及教材，以免侵犯他人著作權》