Visual Journalism: Looking at the other in the age of selfie

Year of production: 2019

Image is illustrative. By Cristina Zaragoza on Unsplash.

The course materials are broken up into four modules:

Module 1: The History and ethics of photojournalism and documentary photography
Module 2: Self portrait vs. Selfie
Module 3: The importance of strong visuals and the photobook as an object
Module 4: Using social network platforms to create outreach

Authors

Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas

The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin provides high-level training, resources, news and information to journalists from around the world. We do this through our pioneering online learning program, Journalism Courses; our trilingual news magazine, Latin American Journalism Review; our annual International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), and more. The Knight Center was created in 2002 at the Moody College of Communication's School of Journalism and Media of UT Austin by professor Rosental Alves, Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication.