Schuetze, Joerg and Audu, Musa Julius English African online news coverage on economic and business topics: Simple university-class evaluation approach on balanced versus biased journalism. Research paper series. (Submitted)
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Abstract
Africa is a continent expected to experience a rapid economic development despite the ongoing economic crisis. To broaden the knowledge of students of business administration, economics and international studies, the authors have – with others – started a research project to identify news services in English, and construct clear ways for using the identified services in the classes to help students gain knowledge of African thoughts on selected issues within the radar of its economic and business concerns. This paper is designed to include an African perspective on certain issues and provide a document with a strategic and technical approach. The main purpose of the governing idea is not primarily to cover all African countries or all online news services of each country, but to sensitize students to African issues and perspectives regarding the issues that are both current and of interest to students and the university itself. The search for specific topics reported on by African news services is performed using the database of Google.com. The first results have been used in this paper to establish a broad-based evaluation mechanism for determining the volume of coverage of certain major topics covered by African news services. According to the goal of establishing a foundation of material to be discussed in class, graphical outputs are included in the main part of the paper and have not been moved into an appendix. This approach has resulted in the inclusion of a method specifically geared to elicit the genuine judgment of the students on the question of 'balanced versus biased journalism'. The newspaper and article/material evaluation is implemented using Google forms.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | teaching material, Africa, visual comparison, source evaluation, search engines, online news services, peer review, case study for students |
| Subjects: | Business and Administrative studies Mass Communications and Documentation Education |
| Divisions: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Joerg Schuetze |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2012 11:24 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2012 10:49 |
| URI: | http://opendepot.org/id/eprint/1522 |
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