Dear all,

I hope everyone is doing well!

In the teaching materials you will find your final points for the seminar assignements. Let us know if there are any questions you may have.

See you on Friday at 10.15 for a course wrap up and final preparation for the exam.

Join us via Webex: https://ivanenadic.my.webex.com/join/iva.nenadic

All the best,

Iva

Dear students, 

tomorrow's lecture will be on Zoom. Please follow this link to join me. See you  at 10:00 am. 

Marijana Grbesa

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Dear all,

please join me for tomorrow's lecture at 10:15 on the following link https://meetingsamer3.webex.com/meet/milica.vuckovic777

We will have a short discussion on "Creative visualizations of content in politics and journalism", and seminar on the topic: Social media and populism.

Kind regards,

Milica 

Dear all,

plese join me for tomorrow's lecture at 10.15 on the following link https://meetingsamer3.webex.com/meet/milica.vuckovic777

The lecture will be about the "Big data as Big Brother: Reconstruction of privacy".

After the lecture, we will have a student presentation given by Robert, Tin and Alen about the SEO in strategic communication. 

Best wishes,

Milica 

Dear All,

On Friday, April 24, we will discuss micro-targeting in political advertising. 

In case you haven't seen it already and if you can access it, I suggest you to watch a 2019 Netflix documentary The Great Hack.

Last Friday I promised to share with you a trend-setting example of a multimedia & visual feature writing - "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek," a New York Times multimedia feature by reporter John Branch, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize. It is a long (narrative) story interwoven with interactive graphics, animated simulations and aerial video: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/index.html#/?part=tunnel-creek

Best regards,

Iva

p.s. still waiting for some essays to arrive

Dear all,

Hope to see you tomorrow at 10:15 via Webex (https://ivanenadic.my.webex.com/join/iva.nenadic).

The lecture will be on bots and automation in strategic communication. 

We will aslo have a presentation by our colleagues Eterović, Koren, Stanić and Lukić on Creative visualizations of content in politics and journalism.

Best,

Iva, Milica & Marijana

Dear all,

Hope to see you on Friday, April 10, at 10:15 via Webex.

The lecture will be on artificial intelligence and especially its application in journalism and governing communication online. Please have a look at: https://atozofai.withgoogle.com/intl/en-GB/?fbclid=IwAR23nSnpy4jc17JaLSFoRUAh47zlpUyjEt_uy158K8C53fdCvOfFgj9Ri28

We will aslo have a presentation by Kristina Limparova, Kristina Hazlingerova and Marta Prazniewska on Disinformation in political campaigns on social media.

Best,

Iva, Milica & Marijana

Dear all,

I hope you're all doing well!

Our next class will take place on Friday, April 3, starting at 10.15 with a lecture on "Social editors": Social media as a source of information & disinformation, and continuing with the exercise that should help us understand how the algorithms (recommendation systems) of different platforms work. 

In a preparation for tomorrow, I am sending you a text by Chico Q. Camargo: https://theconversation.com/youtubes-algorithms-might-radicalise-people-but-the-real-problem-is-weve-no-idea-how-they-work-129955

and a short but educational video by BBC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=ZnBF2GeAKbo

Hope to see you all.

With best wishes,

Iva, Milica & Marijana

(we are back to this Webex link: https://ivanenadic.my.webex.com/join/iva.nenadic)

Dear all, 

We truly hope you are all doing well and that you are somewhere on safe. I am sure we are all still stressed with what happened on Sunday, especially those who stayed in Zagreb. We hope that our next meeting will be at least some distraction from everything what is going on at the moment around us. Please read the information about this week course agenda.

LECTURE

This Friday we will meet at 10:15h when I will be giving a short lecture on suggested readings. I will try to record the lecture and make it available to others who will not be able to join us at 10:15h. Last week Iva gave you short overview on the “Big Data, Online Platforms, Data-driven Communication” and this Friday we will talk about “Open data and strategic communications (social media analytics, sources, tools, techniques and theories)”. Suggested readings are (available in teaching materials):

● Plowman, K. D. & Wilson, C. (2018). Strategy and Tactics in Strategic Communication: Examining their Intersection with Social Media Use. International Journal of Strategic Communication, 12(2): 125-144. DOI: 10.1080/1553118X.2018.1428979

● Batrinca, B & Treleaven, P. C. (2014). Social media analytics: a survey of techniques, tools and platforms. AI & Soc, 30: 89–116. DOI 10.1007/s00146-014-0549-4

SEMINAR

The seminar will start at 12:00 as it is scheduled. We have one presentation titled “Open data - the case of data.gov.hr” that will be given by our colleague Silvija Valjin, while group 6 will be the “Challengers”.

LINK FOR THIS WEEK

Please join this week meeting for lecture and seminar by using following link https://meetingsamer3.webex.com/meet/milica.vuckovic777

If someone still does not have WebEx application, please download and install it from https://www.webex.com/.

Best wishes,

Milica & Iva

Dear all,

thank you for joining our webinar today.

As promised, in the teaching materials you will find today's presentation with some key points to remember (and pay attention to) from suggested readings (which are available in the teaching materials).

The updated schedule of presentations now also contains challengers.

Best regards,

Milica & Iva

Dear all,

Hopefully, you are all doing well!

Our next meeting, this time virtual, will take place on Friday, March 20, at 12:00. Please, get yourself ready by taking these 2 steps:

1) consult the suggested readings (you'll find them in teaching materials here on the intranet)

2) download WebEx (https://www.webex.com/) and join the meeting on Friday at 12 by using this link:  https://ivanenadic.my.webex.com/join/iva.nenadic

The agenda for Friday meeting will be:

1) to discuss the readings

2) to agree on dates and contents/concepts of your presentations

3) to decide on challengers

In teaching materials (here on the intranet), you will find a table with your topics and proposed dates for group presentations. As said during out introduction class, the deadline to submit your individual essays is always 2 days before the presentation date.

The essay (1000-1500 words) should be structured in three main parts: 

1) introduction (guides your reader into the paper by introducing the topic, states the main idea or argument of the essay, sets limits on the topic, and can indicate the organization of the essay)

2) body (here you develop the main points and support them with available literature/research)

3) conclusion (brings together all the main points of the essay, leaves readers with a final thought and sense of closure)

Use engaging language. Write in active voice, not in passive.

Please, provide your references in APA 6 style at the end of the text. For orientation

see http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/referencing-tool/apa-6 

Do not place references in footnotes.

Should you have any questions or difficulties in attending the Friday webinar, please let us know.

We look forward to seeing you on Friday.

Best wishes,

Iva, Milica & Marijana

Dear all,

This is to inform you that at the Faculty of Political Science, from Friday 13 March 2020 until further notice, due to the epidemiological situation in the world and based on the recommendation of the Civil Protection Headquarters of the Republic of Croatia, all meetings, including classes (lectures in compulsory subjects) and academic and public events, with one hundred or more participants are being cancelled. Classes with less than one hundred participants will be held, but attendance is optional.

Our class at Data Driven Strategic Communication is less than 100 participants but in order to keep everyone safe and comfortable, and in accordance with the current decisions of the Faculty Council, we will organise our classes (both lectures and seminars) online, starting from Friday 20 March. Tomorrow class will not be held but we ask you to use the time to consult the suggested readings (in the Class agenda) and to watch the following Ted Talk by Carole Cadwalladr, journalist who exposed the Cambridge Analytica scandal:

https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy?language=en

We kindly invite you to follow the Faculty's web pages, intranet and your email for further updates. We will soon provide you with more details into how the online classes will be organised.

Stay safe and sane 😊.

Marijana, Milica & Iva