Foreign News and Social Media - Interaktive Studienpläne der TU Ilmenau

The gathering of Foreign News has changed significantly in the era of the internet, since social media and global chat functions are available on every smartphone. Foreign countries and their citizens seem so much closer, so much more accessible as we can follow their politicians and other figures of public life on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook.

And yet some basics of foreign news reporting remain just the same (the art of finding and investigating a good foreign news story, the principles of research in foreign socio-political environments, and the way of approaching people in different cultural contexts).

The seminar gives an overview on what has changed and how it has changed; focusing on the way of perceiving Foreign News as well as on Foreign News production.

Students attending the seminar will (1) be made familiar with the principles of Foreign News gathering. (2) They will be requested to analyze in which way social media channels are changing the traditional appearance of Foreign News Stories and (3) how it is influencing journalistic work.