ZURn6614 Ethnographic Journalism, Media Participation, and Homelessness

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2025
Rozsah
1/1/0. 6 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučováno kontaktně
Vyučující
Vojtěch Dvořák, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
Vojtěch Dvořák, Ph.D.
Katedra mediálních studií a žurnalistiky – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Boris Rafailov, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra mediálních studií a žurnalistiky – Fakulta sociálních studií
Předpoklady
TYP_STUDIA(MN)
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This course provides an introduction to ethnography, ethnographic journalism, and media participation focusing on minorities, particularly homeless people. We will explore who are homeless people, how they become homeless, and why understanding homelessness matters. We will see how various types of media portray homeless people and analyze local media coverage of homelessness. We will talk about how alternative media attempt to challenge stereotypical representations of homelessness and see their limits. We will also discuss avenues for change through full media participation and empowerment. Learning ethnographic methods, we will engage in fieldwork and cooperate with homeless people. Exploring the limitations and continuously challenging the process’ ethics, we will strive to use media not only as a tool for their empowerment but also as a responsible way of complementing media representations of homelessness.
Výstupy z učení
Students will be able to: • Understand homelessness in its broader social context, including life trajectories and circumstances that lead to it • Recognize how media tend to portray homeless people with emphasis on revealing stereotypical and harmful representations • Understand current avenues for change and their limitations - understand how alternative media approach portraying homeless people and using their voice • Understand and use the theory and ethnographic methods, and ethnographic journalism to challenge stereotypical representations of minorities • Understand the theory of participation and empowerment • Understand enchanced/full media participation to promote marginalized voices • Critically review the ethical questions of ethnographic journalism and full media participation
Osnova
  • 1) Introduction to the Course 2) Who are Homeless people 3) Media and Homelessness (How Media Portray Homeless People) 4) Avenues for Change (Alternative Media, Community News, Street Papers) 5) What Ethnographic Journalism, Ethnography 6) Ethnographic Methods (Observation, Participant-Observation, Fieldnotes, Interviews) 7) Participation, Empowerment, and Power 8) Mediating Full Media Participation 9) The Ethics of Ethnographic Journalism and Mediating Full Media Participation 10) Case Studies
Literatura
  • Doudaki, V., & Carpentier, N. (2019). Critiquing hegemony and fostering alternative ways of thinking about homelessness: The articulation of the homeless subject position in the Greek street paper shedia. Communications. Media. Design., 4(1), 5-31.
Výukové metody
Lectures Seminars Fieldwork Reading
Metody hodnocení
Attendance and Participation Group Project Written Assignments
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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Výuka probíhá každý týden.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2022, jaro 2024.