Who are homeless/unhoused people? What is homelessness? What is home? Causes of homelessness? Why does understanding homelessness matter? How do mainstream media present homelessness? What stereotypes do they use? What is the impact on unhoused people’s lives, on us? What are the alternatives and what are their limits?
What is ethnography? Ethnographic methods (observation, participation, taking fieldnotes, interviews…). What are the pros and cons? Autoethnography. Ethnographic journalism. Does it lead to more responsible reporting?
Remaining part of the lecture on ethnography. Discussion over the first assignments.
What does it mean to participate? What types of participation are there? What is power? Participation and empowerment. Enhanced and full media participation. Is it always good to aim at full participation? Public journalism, citizen journalism, participatory journalism…
Setting up the group project.