PD_digital Graphic Environments
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This Digital Graphic Environments course will be an introduction to the changes produced in the
journalism profession due to the digital media practices. In this sense, the course will provide,
analyse and assess the main principles and concepts of digital culture focusing on multimedia and
data visualisation.
The course will consist in the following parts.
1. A general introduction to the history and the main concepts of media convergence,
graphic and visual communication.
2. The analysis and management of data and infographics.
3. Case studies of the best publishing global media.
4. evelopment of a final course pro!ect
At the end of the course students will be able to"
Conte#tualise the current media production system
$ecognise formal and aesthetical values in communication design production
%nderstand the principals of a graphic layout
evelop critical thin&ing s&ill to analyse infographics
Apply the infographic and data visualisation process related to the infographic
representation of linear, conte#tual and data related information
Course structure the contents of the course will be presented through two main forms of activities
that will ta!e place during the class schedule
"#$ %ectures, that provide an e&planation of the main contents of the course
"'$ (eminars, that involve case studies and activities cantered in a specific course topic, where
students wor& on a specific issue through the guided analysis of other resources
The course content is practical and theoretical, harmoniously combined.
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The final grade will be composed of the following parts"
Continuous assessment '()*+"
1)* -ndividual presentation of the seminars topic
2)* /roup blog on infographics
3)* $eading controls
0inal e#am '4)*+
The final e#amination of the sub!ect will be in the end of anuary
1. Data visualisation and infographics
2. Graphic design key concepts
2.1 Colour and culture
2.2 Typography
2.3 rint and web layout
3. How to create infographics
3.1 ymbols, icons and pictograms
3.2 resenting visual instructions
3.3 resenting statistical information
3.4 #plain the (567 visually
4. Data Journalism
. !oftware and tools for Journalists
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