EHR126 Sports Media 1 (8)

Abstract

Sports Media 1 introduces students to the historical and contemporary connections between sport and the media, as well as the industries of sports journalism and sports media. On the one hand, this means exploring the ways in which sports and all forms of media have changed each other and continue to do so. In fact, the possibility that it is now impossible to think about sport and the media as discreet social institutions is explored. On the other hand, students will learn about different and emerging forms of employment in sports journalism and sports media.

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Session 2
On Campus	Bathurst Campus

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Subject information

Duration	Grading System	School:
One session	HD/FL	School of Exercise Science, Sport and Health

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

be able to describe and explain the significance of pivotal historical developments in the relationship between sport and the media;

be able to articulate informed opinions about the positive and negative consequences of the mediatisation of professional sport;

be able to describe the ways in which sport influences media landscapes;

be able to describe the ways in which sports journalism as a job has changed in recent decades;

be able to list the ways recent developments in technology are reshaping sports journalism and creating new forms of employment in sports media;

be able to compare the role of the sports journalist in comparison with other forms of journalism.

Syllabus

The subject will cover the following topics:

sports journalism through history;
the mediatisation of sport;
sport and modern media empires;
is sports media simply a form of public relations?;
sports journalism in changing media landscapes;
online sports journalism and sports media
what is the role of the sports journalist?

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