B.A. in Multimedia and Mass Communication Fake News and Fact Checking Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the TY BAMMC Journalism syllabus under the CBCS scheme, revision R-2019-20. The University has not published an NEP 2020 syllabus for the third year of this degree, and still examines Semesters V and VI on this one, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for Fake News and Fact Checking
Module I: News Industry’s Transformation with reference to Information Disorder: Gatekeeping Theory and Agenda Setting Theory printed in the syllabus as Module 2
- 6
- 1 Digital Technology:
- Digital convergence transforming content- commissioning, production, publication and distribution
- 2 Social Media Platforms
- Different Social Media Platforms
- 3 Role of News Organization
- Covering ‘fake news’ and countering ‘information disorder.
- 4 Source credibility
- Strategies for identifying real news and source credibility in line with the ethical principles guiding journalistic use of User Generated Content.
Module II: Media and Information Literacy (MIL) printed in the syllabus as Module 3
- 10
- 1 Requisite Literacy
- Importance of acquiring the requisite literacy
- 2 Detection method
- Detection of both flawed journalism and fraudulent news in various media
- 3 Healthy Skepticism
- Development of healthy skepticism towards veracity of reports, posts, feeds, photos, videos, audio content, info-graphics, and statistics within appropriate contexts
Module III: Fact Checking printed in the syllabus as Module 4
- 14
- 1 Fact-checking organizations
- Brazil, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Latin America,
- around the world
- America, Philippines, Britain and Indian Scenario
- 2 Basic image verification
- Common types of false imagery and basic verification steps
- 3 Advanced verification
- Approaches for content analysis, including metadata analysis and Geolocation of News
- 4 Reverse Image Search
- Reverse Image Search using most reliable websites such as Google Reverse Image Search, TinEye, RevEye
Module IV: Social Media Verification printed in the syllabus as Module 5
- 12
- 1 Verification tools
- YouTube Data Viewer using most reliable websites such as Amnesty’s YouTube Data Viewer, InVID, News Check
- 2 Account Analysis
- Facebook and Tweeter account analysis : fake news generated on social media platforms
- 3 EXIF Viewer
- EXIF is metadata attached to visual content that includes a wide range of data points created by digital cameras and phone cameras at the point of capture
Reading and References
- Philip N. Howard, Unless The Government Acts Soon, Fake News Will Produce Deep Information Inequality
- Peter Pomerantsev and Michael Weiss, "The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money"
- Edward Lucas and Peter Pomerantsev: “Winning the Information War”
- Hannah Arendt: “Totalitarian Propaganda” Hannah Arendt: “Totalitarian Propaganda”
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.A. in Multimedia and Mass Communication under NEP 2020. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Modules are numbered in sequence here; in the syllabus itself, Module I is printed as Module 2; Module II is printed as Module 3; Module III is printed as Module 4; Module IV is printed as Module 5. The PDF above is the syllabus's own page, unaltered.
The complete syllabus
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