ZURn6614 Ethnographic Journalism, Media Participation, and Homelessness

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2026
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 marginalized and vulnerable populations, particularly unhoused people. We will explore who are unhoused people, factors contributing to homelessness, and why understanding homelessness matters. We will see how various types of media portray unhoused 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 media participation, empowerment and ethnographic journalism. Learning ethnographic methods, we will engage in fieldwork and cooperate with people experiencing homelessness to produce media/news outcomes. Exploring the limitations and continuously challenging the process’ ethics, we will strive to use media not only as a tool for 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) Defining Homelessness 3) Homelessness in Media 4) Avenues for Change (Alternative Media, Community News, Street Papers) 5) Ethnography, Ethnographic Journalism (Ethnographic Methods (Observation, Participant-Observation, Fieldnotes, Interviews) 6) Media Participation, Empowerment, Power 7) The Ethics in Ethnographic Journalism and Media Participation 8) Advocacy, solidarity and journalistic norms and values
Literatura
  • Schneider, B. (2012). Sourcing homelessness: How journalists use sources to frame homelessness. Journalism, 13(1), 71–86.
  • Arnstein, S. R. (1969). A ladder of citizen participation. Journal of the American Institute of planners, 35(4), 216-224.
  • Edgar, B. (2009). 2009 European Review of Statistics on Homelessness. Brussels: FEANTSA
  • Carpentier, N. (2011). Media and participation: A site of ideological-democratic struggle (p. 408). Intellect.
  • Aktinson, P., & Hammersley, M. (1998). Ethnography and participant observation. Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 248-261.
  • Cramer, J., & McDevitt, M. (2004). Ethnographic journalism. Qualitative research in journalism: taking it to the streets, 127-144.
Výukové metody
Lectures Seminars Fieldwork Reading
Metody hodnocení
Attendance and Participation Group Project Written Assignments
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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