Media genres ER-CMS-MedGen

Lecture:

• introduction to the subject of journalistic genres – theoretical knowledge.
• examination both the conventions of individual genres and the idea of genre itself.
• exploration of formal, historical, ideological and industrial perspectives on genre, and
considering some of the ways in which specific genre has been conceptualised.
• considering alternative approaches that potentially complicate the premises and

Workshops:

• small press information: note, report – recognition and practice of form.
• specific information species: report, biography, press review, announcement, infographic
– recognition and practice of form.
• reportage workshop.
• creating a street poll as a form of journalistic knowledge about the world.
• longer specific journalistic genres: column, commentary, journal, review, essay –
recognition and practice of form.
• preparing a good interview – how to talk to the guest and keep the viewer's attention?
• photographic journalistic genres: press photography, photo chronicle, cover photo, photo
essay, photo story, photo essay, photo montage, photo comic.
• creating an interesting blog fanpage.
• ways of functioning of commentary as a new genre in the Internet media.
• genre convergence and social media
assumptions of genre theory