7M03201 Data - Journalism
Цель: The goal of the educational program “Data Journalism” is the high-quality training of highly qualified mass media personnel in the field of analysis and visualization of big data, possessing digital technology skills and the basics of artificial intelligence for journalism. The implementation of the educational program is aimed at developing the professional personality of a specialist who is able to independently carry out scientific research in the field of data journalism; integrate knowledge at the intersection of the sciences of information technology and mass communication in the context of one’s own scientific research; build your own program of further education and research activities in computational linguistics, data visualization and infographics.
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Educational program
The goal of the educational program “Data Journalism” is the high-quality training of highly qualified mass media personnel in the field of analysis and visualization of big data, possessing digital technology skills and the basics of artificial intelligence for journalism. The implementation of the educational program is aimed at developing the professional personality of a specialist who is able to independently carry out scientific research in the field of data journalism; integrate knowledge at the intersection of the sciences of information technology and mass communication in the context of one’s own scientific research; build your own program of further education and research activities in computational linguistics, data visualization and infographics.
Upon completion of this EP it is expected that undergraduates will be able to:
ON1. Able to apply his knowledge and manage tasks in the field of machine learning, artificial intelligence and in-depth data analysis using mathematical statistics to create high-quality content in the mass-media sphere.
ON2. Formulate judgments based on incomplete or limited information in the field of design and evaluation of interfaces for data visualization and infographics for the work of convergent editions and to manage it.
ON3. Able to integrate knowledge and cope with complex issues of modeling and data mining classification for data mining, necessary for making decisions in various areas of journalism.
ON4. Analyze and integrate the process of solving problems with complex data necessary for searching, receiving and transforming content and their integration for mining. Prepare a project to create and manage artificial intelligence to organize the work of a data journalist.
ON5. Describe, justify and present the scientific results of the digital media business using open data and use applied technologies to ensure the work of a journalist date.
ON6. Develop research projects on interactive journalism and a digital start-up using multimedia technologies to integrally solve the problems of data journalism.
ON7. Argumentate the Big-data technological process and its application in journalism, classify the basic concepts of data-journalism about the mechanisms of interaction with converged media to create visual content and analytics.
ON8. To determine the directions of further personal and professional development, to be capable of an objective assessment of their achievements in date journalism.
ON9. To have the ability to adapt, implement, analyze and competently use acquired knowledge to solve problems, allowing them to solve data-journalism problems in a holistic way and demonstrate the results obtained.
ON10. To compare, to contrast and solve problems in the field of statistical analysis and their application in the work of a journalist, analyze different types of texts within the research context.
ON11. Plan and carry out experiments, solve design problems of obtaining, evaluating, integrating and analyzing and visualizing data in computer linguistics used in subject-oriented information systems.
ON12. Design, analyze and implement projects with big data, have basic programming skills in Python, demonstrate the work with information sources.
Master's degree educational programs
Persons entering the master’s degree or residency:when applying to organizations of university and postgraduate education:
1) an application addressed to the head of the organization of higher and postgraduate education in any form;
2) document on higher education (original);
3) certificate of completion of the internship (for admission to residency);
4) identity document (required for personal identification);
5) six photographs 3x4 centimeters in size;
6) a medical certificate in the f
Curriculum
СЕМЕСТР 1
- Foreign language (professional)-5 ECTS
- Psychology of management-3 ECTS
- Journalism and Artificial Intelligence-5 ECTS
- Smart Journalism: Machine Learning and Neural Networks-5 ECTS
- Data mining and analytical journalism-5 ECTS
- Big data in digital media-5 ECTS
- Digital media business and open data-5 ECTS
- Digital startup in data journalism-5 ECTS
- Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)-5 ECTS
- Research Seminar-1 ECTS
- Dissertation Writing-1 ECTS
СЕМЕСТР 2
- Theoretical concepts of Data journalism-5 ECTS
- Data visualization and infographics-5 ECTS
- Interactive Data journalism and visualisation-5 ECTS
- Pedagogical-4 ECTS
- Pedagogy of higher education-5 ECTS
- History and philosophy of science-3 ECTS
- Research Seminar-1 ECTS
- Dissertation Writing-2 ECTS
СЕМЕСТР 3
- Research-4 ECTS
- Computational linguistics and text analysis-5 ECTS
- Data-reporting and data transformation-5 ECTS
- Data literacy and storytelling-5 ECTS
- Data Analytics in media management and business-5 ECTS
- Media design and Big data-5 ECTS
- Graphic design and programming-5 ECTS
- Motion design and web animation-5 ECTS
- Dissertation Writing-1 ECTS
- Computational linguistics and Artificial Intelligence-5 ECTS
СЕМЕСТР 4
- Research-4 ECTS
- Scientific Internship-3 ECTS
- Research Seminar-1 ECTS
- Dissertation Writing-10 ECTS
- Publication in the Proceedings of International Conferences-4 ECTS
- Final Attestation-8 ECTS
Employment
1. JSC RTRK "Kazakhstan"; 2. Kazmedia Ortalygy Management Company LLP; 3. JSC "Kazcontent"; 4. JSC "Khabar"; 5. RSU "Central Communications Service" of the Ministry of Information and Public Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan; 6. Portal of the electronic Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan - egov.kz; 7. National Infocommunication Holding "Zerde"; 8. JSC "Financial Center"; 9. Kazakhstan Association of IT Companies; 10. Kazinform International News Agency LLP. The educational program is relevant for a specific area of employment: 1. Mass media: editorial offices of printed publications, television channels, radio stations, Internet media, news agencies, industry mass media; 2. Internet portals, IT companies, operators of Internet services and telecommunications, producing media content and managing content production; 3. Expert, industry and government research organizations engaged in the analysis of the mass communications industry, primarily their journalistic segment; 4. Scientific and educational structures that train specialists in the field of mass communications and conduct applied and fundamental scientific activities in this field; 5. Government agencies that need specialists in working with open data, able to find, select, process and correctly present the necessary material.
Contacts
Senior Lecturer of the Department of Print and Electronic Media, Alibieva Nursulu cell: 8 702 149 65 60 Email address: Nursulu.Alibiyeva@kaznu.edu.kz
Documents of EP
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