New media are exciting for mainstream journalists as they have a field for expression based on non-linear mentality and new forms not possible in newspapers or on TV.
Bloggers are collaborators of online journalists. By listening to blogs of his or her interest, online journalist gets source of ideas and information. Mainstream web sites in facts are meant to reflect issues from blogs, social networks and our direct realities.
As with blogs, online journalists will study how to sense the beat of social networks and to communicate with their users so they can obtain links and sources of information for new web texts.
Students will learn basics of photojournalism, video and audio production for web. We shall create various web media: video and audio segments, photograph with annotations, presentations, slide texts, photo galleries, sound-slides and web documents.
Veteran journalists will provide practical advises for deep investigation into important social issues. After in-sighting into experiences of their colleagues, students will choose to study certain topics during the semester and publish posts concerning them on student web sites.
In a new age of universalism our civilization comes to culmination point. Mass media such as organized religions, state, monetary system and technology serve as alienation tools performing destructive pressure by representing minorities. We shall discuss birth, rise and death of culture-organism.