Professor Donggeun Lee of Chosun University Selected for Korea Press Foundation's 'University Lecture Support Project'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Professor Lee Dong-geun of the Department of Journalism and Broadcasting at Chosun University was selected for the '2022 2nd Semester KPF (Korea Press Foundation) University Lecture Support Project' announced by the Korea Press Foundation.

Professor Lee will open and operate the course "News Analysis and Criticism from a Media Sociological Perspective" as an elective major course for the 2nd semester of the 2022 academic year.

The course aims to help students correctly utilize news by identifying factors that influence the news production process.

Through this, the course intends to cultivate a new level of awareness and critical perspective toward news.

The course content consists of lectures on measuring media sociological news analysis skills for news article analysis, introduction to media sociology, content analysis, types of media content, and the influence of individual journalists on the news production process.

Following this, there will be lectures on media practices, organizations, institutions, and systems affecting the news production process, as well as four special lectures by external experts including media scholars and current and former journalists.

Professor Lee said, "News is a product produced through a process involving complex and extensive multidimensional inherent factors and mutual influences among media, and this media sociological understanding broadens the horizon of understanding news and fosters a critical perspective. To accurately understand news in the internet digital era, it is necessary to understand the process through which news is produced and the direct and indirect factors influencing it."

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