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2014 » Papers » Volume 3 » DIGITAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COURSE "REPORTING IN NATURAL DISASTERS AND ACCIDENTS" 1. DIGITAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COURSE "REPORTING IN NATURAL DISASTERS AND ACCIDENTS" Authors: Barovic Vladimir, Pralica Dejan Volume 3 | DOI: 10.12753/2066-026X-14-146 | Pages: 43-49 | Download PDF | Abstract
Since 2007 a teaching course on the subject of "reporting In natural and intentionally caused catastrophes and disasters has been carried on in the Department of Media Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad. The mentioned subject deals with media reporting and journalist engagement on the place where catastrophes caused by people (terrorism, explosions, car accidents, citizen gatherings, fires) or natural calamities (floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, extremely bad weather conditions) happen. The subject syllabus for a school year is carried out during one term with two classes of lecture and two classes of exercise per week. Students are interested in carrying through the syllabus and a number of those enrolled in this elective reaches maximum which is about 35 students for each course. We carried out a study on a theme of possibility of using a media digital technology in performing the syllabus" Reporting in natural and intentionally caused catastrophes and disasters" with the aim to examine how much students are interested to make a use of new digital technologies in the teaching course. An extensive analysis of the students answers was made relating to their perception of the use of new digital technologies, lecturing on Skype, the importance of online debate with the aim of exchanging different views with the students from other universities in the region and world. The researchers were interested in how much students use digital resources when they write their term papers, if they have a good on line communication with their professors and assistant professors, if they would like to have an on line cooperation with the Military, the Fire Department or some other institutions which deal with crisis situations and which digital innovation they would implement into the realization of this subject syllabus. The fundamental idea in this project is to analyze the students attitudes about using of media digital technologies in the realization of this syllabus which offers great opportunities for implementing the mentioned technologies. We expect that the result of this research will be the modification of the plan and the syllabus for this subject, which is to implement innovations in the sense of application of digital technologies observed as the most significant by students. Thus the teaching course will be enriched and innovated with new digital technologies and the syllabus will be adapted to students requests. | Keywords
crisis situations, digital technologies, media, students, lectures, innovations, research, faculty, journalism |
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