This document discusses the fields of social communication and journalism. Social communication investigates information exchange, mass media, and culture, drawing from sociology, journalism, and philosophy. It studies the relationship between social and communication changes. Journalism involves collecting, synthesizing, prioritizing and publishing information on current events. The first newspapers emerged in Rome in the 1st century BC and spread in Europe in the Middle Ages. In the 18th-19th centuries, newspapers grew more influential and partisan. Modern journalism developed in the late 19th century with innovations like interviews and Sunday color sections. Technologies like radio and television also began disseminating news. Journalism is considered a protected profession in many democracies.
2. Social communication is a field of
interdisciplinary studies investigating the
information and expression, the mass
media and cultural industries. Their
theoretical concepts derived primarily from
sociology, journalism followed and
philosophy.
3. From an academic perspective,
Social Communication is
understood as "the discipline
that studies the
relationships between the
social and communicative
changes". This definition
incorporates a multitude of
activities and worlds of
knowledge, such as Social
Design. The Social
Communication not only studies
use the format Message or
communication but also is
interested in the use of
communication tools such as
empowerment formula.
4. Journalism is an activity
that is to
collect, synthesize, priori
tize and publish
information relating to
something today. As
journalism discipline lies
in some countries within
sociology and other
between the
Communication
Sciences. Journalism
aims to create an
appropriate
methodology to present
any kind of valuable
information, be
objective, seek reliable
sources and therefore
verifiable to the reader.
5. History points as the first newspaper in the strict sense that Julius
Caesar was placed in the "Foro Romano" and which he called
the Act daytime in the first century BC. In the late Middle
Ages, the written sheets with trade and economic news were
common in the bustling streets of the provincial bourgeoisie. In
Venice, sold sheets to the price of a gazette (currency used in
Venice in the sixteenth century), from which come the names of
many newspapers published in the Modern and Contemporary.
Ethics plays a very important role in this profession, which no
journalist should forget. In the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, political leaders became aware of the great power
that could have the newspapers to influence the population
and newspapers proliferated factions and political parties.
By the late nineteenth century, entrepreneurs discovered the
commercial potential of journalism and the first publications
appeared similar to the current day. In the United
States, entrepreneurs like Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph
Hearst created great day for the sell-off, incorporating
innovations such as the interview dialogue (1836), the Sunday
color (1893) or daily strips (1904) .1 New inventions like the
telegraph facilitated the gathering of news. The picture began
to be used in the daily press in 1880. Germany was the first
country to produce graphic magazines illustrated with
photographs. Emerged, and in the twentieth
century, companies dedicated to collecting information about
currently being sold to newspapers. These companies were
known as news agencies or news agencies. In the early 20s of
last century came the first radio stations, who took much of the
role of newspapers in monitoring stepper current events. The first
television broadcasts were made in the United States in the
30s, and by the 50s television radio competed with the ability to
transmit information instantaneously with the addition seductive
image.
6. Journalism is considered by some authors as the "fourth branch" of the great
Western democracies (the first three are the ones who set the modern
constitutions: the executive, legislative and judicial). As a
counterpart, sometimes journalism is a profession with risks, many journalists
have been killed in the exercise of their profession.
The journalism created by rapid needs reading comprehension and its alleged
neutrality, editorial style that has nurtured many writers, which were part of its
school and excelled in his columns. He has also created prestigious and serious
social commentators and political life, dressed the pages with good comedians
and cartoonists, has developed from the folkloric to the research project
documented.
7. In many democratic countries, the work of journalists is
protected by law or by the constitution. This includes,
many times, the journalist's right to preserve secret the
identity of their sources, even when challenged in court.