Analysis of Journalism and Communication Studies in Europe’s Top Ranked Universities: Competencies, Aims and Courses

Cervi, Laura; Solà, Núria Simelio i; Tejedor, Santiago

doi:10.1080/17512786.2020.1762505

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“…In addition, even if reference newspapers seem to opt for an informative approach, their visual framing and the choice of images (i.e., empty places) emotionally charges the information. In this sense, besides the need for more comparative research to prove that this is a global trend, from a practical standpoint, our results align with the findings of previous studies [ 45 , 46 ], stressing the need to promote media and information literacy, not only among citizens, but also among media professionals. As demonstrated, both the predominance of short news items, which lack contextual information, and the visual framing can make the process of processing the essence of information messages difficult, making the susceptibility of many people to misinformation as risky as susceptibility to the virus itself.…”

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Information on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Daily Newspapers’ Front Pages: Case Study of Spain and Italy

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Cervi

Tusa

et al. 2020

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Spain and Italy are amongst the European countries where the COVID-19 pandemic has produced its major impact and where lockdown measures have been the harshest. This research aims at understanding how the corona crisis has been represented in Spanish and Italian media, focusing on reference newspapers. The study analyzes 72 front pages of El País and El Mundo in Spain and Italy’s Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica, collecting 710 news items and 3456 data evidences employing a mixed method (both qualitative and quantitative) based on content analysis and hemerographic analysis. Results show a predominance of informative journalistic genres (especially brief and news), while the visual framing emerging from the photographic choice, tend to foster humanization through an emotional representation of the pandemic. Politicians are the most represented actors, showing a high degree of politicization of the crisis.

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“…As pointed out by many studies [ 45 , 46 ] journalism training, in order to cope with these new challenges, should lay special emphasis on these aspects, providing not only specific health journalism training, but developing specific media and information literacy training devoted to health issues.…”

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Information on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Daily Newspapers’ Front Pages: Case Study of Spain and Italy

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“…On the other hand, researchers discovered that using Massive Online Open Courses MOOC for teaching journalism and communication has a positive potential, in terms of using technology and improving interactivity among students and tutors [37]. Using MOOCs in teaching journalism may be considered as an innovation for this discipline, because in previously conducted studies it was observed that not many universities teaching journalism focus on implementing those solution in the teaching model [38].…”

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COVID-19 and Higher Education: First-Year Students’ Expectations toward Distance Learning

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The article deals with distance education, which as a teaching method had to be suddenly introduced in schools and higher education institutions as a result of the global pandemic situation. The paper captures the second wave of Poland’s pandemic situation in relation to global circumstances and the methods of conducting distance learning used across the globe. The purpose of this study was to investigate first-year students’ expectations about the education shift to distance learning. GETAMEL, which is the adapted General Extended Technology Acceptance Model for E-Learning, was used in the study. The study analyzed the influence of Experience, Subjective Norms, Enjoyment, Computer Anxiety, and Self-Efficacy on students’ expectations in the context of distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. To test the research model presented during the research, The Partial Least Squares method of Structural Equation Modeling was used. An online survey was created to conduct the research, which collected data from 670 Polish first-year undergraduate students. The acquired data were analyzed using the SmartPLS 3 software. The results of the research indicated that the most important factors that influence the feelings of students and can convince them to change from teaching in the classroom to teaching in the distance learning model are the feeling of pleasure in this form of education and a sense of self-efficacy. The results of this study may be of particular interest to education practitioners, including teachers, and a starting point for further research on e-learning models, including, in particular, the understanding of students’ expectations regarding distance learning.

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“…In the current scenario, the use of Information and Communication Technologies represents an important step towards innovation [6] since ICTs bring us closer to new possibilities of knowledge distribution and acquisition of skills and new competences, and can also favor constructivist and collaborative learning [7]. The issue of digitization of higher education has opened a broad academic and professional debate [8][9][10] to detect where the forces of change and educational innovation goals should be directed [11,12] under the principle of improvement based on evidence and systematization of experiences which promote active citizenship and contribute to the development of the learner [13]. In this sense, the open innovation perspective highlight universities as capable agents driving innovation and fostering economic development providing knowledge flow [5].…”

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Higher Education Response in the Time of Coronavirus: Perceptions of Teachers and Students, and Open Innovation

Tejedor

Cervi

Pérez-Escoda

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Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed training processes. The transition from face-to-face to virtuality has affected the entire educational process favoring one of the open innovation key features in the higher education institutions: the ability to manage knowledge flow. Open innovation in this crisis situation will encourage universities to deal with difficulties and embrace opportunities to enhance knowledge production. In this regard, the main objective of this work is to analyze how universities have managed knowledge flow during lockdown situation. The research presents a comparative study between three countries highly impacted by the coronavirus (Spain, Italy and Ecuador) based on perceptions from teachers and students on a convenience sample of 573 individuals. The study, of a descriptive and exploratory nature, applied surveys between March and April 2020 to students and teachers of Journalism, Communication. The survey had 2956 responses, collecting 65,032 pieces of evidence from students and 6468 from teachers. Teachers and students show their preference for being present, but they recognize the justification for the change of scenery and identify positive elements in virtuality. According to the findings obtained, the absence of presence has not generated an increase in the meetings between teachers and students. In addition, the tutorials have been shorter and sporadic. Added to this is a scant commitment to the variety of resources and options offered by the Internet. The predominance of textual material collides with the demand from students for a mixture of training resources, a greater role for the podcast and, especially, a typology of assessment tests that pass the traditional exams.

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Analysis of Journalism and Communication Studies in Europe’s Top Ranked Universities: Competencies, Aims and Courses

Cited by 27 publications

References 40 publications

Information on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Daily Newspapers’ Front Pages: Case Study of Spain and Italy

Information on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Daily Newspapers’ Front Pages: Case Study of Spain and Italy

COVID-19 and Higher Education: First-Year Students’ Expectations toward Distance Learning

Higher Education Response in the Time of Coronavirus: Perceptions of Teachers and Students, and Open Innovation

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