Courses

This course aims to introduce the user to the discipline of Citizen Journalism. It draws on the work of the leading proponents of Citizen Journalism to offer a basic introduction to the concept, describing its potential for civil society as an advocacy tool.

The second course in our offering, we focus here on the political, legal and ethical aspects of journalism practice within each of the participating countries in this project. The content will attempt to describe the institutional and societal contexts within which participants will operate as citizen journalists. Participants will explore the democratic functions of the media as well as the legal and moral constraints they, as citizen journalists, are likely to experience in their work.

Our Media Tools course is designed to assist the user to utilise the various ournalistic tools efficiently. The resources collated will focus on reporting, writing and editing skills with the objective being to foster an ability to write clearly and coherently using narrative, descriptive, and analytical methods. Resources will also include tips and instructional skills on the effective use of audio and video media.

This module aims to introduce the user to the basic building blocks of Web 2.0 – though some of these building blocks may be edging into Web 2.5 by this now. Many of these tools have been around for ages (some argue that blogging dates back to the Usenet days of the early 1990s), so really web 2.0 not about a specific technology but rather a combination of many of them and – most importantly - the use of these technologies by an ever wider group of people.