IM115 JOINME

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Adam Franc, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Alina Matějová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Tuesday 14:00–17:40 N41
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Zájem o práci v redakčním a autorském okruhu oborového časopisu JOINME.
A/NEBO
Zájem podílet se na jiné tvůrčí činnosti spojené s praktickým uplatněním znalostí oboru umění nových médií (tvorba kratších AV děl různého zaměření, organizace přehlídek studentské tvorby, pořádání tematických večerů, správa FB TIM atd., dle dohody na začátku semestru).
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Course is intended for students who are interested in learning the theory and practice aspects of creating the scholarly journal (work editors, reviewers, authors, language proofreaders etc.) and want to master the main principles of academic writing and critical evaluation. During the course students get acquainted with strategies and tactics of scientific publishing and formal rules and ethical principles of academic writing. In addition, they get an overview of scholarly journals, databases of scholarly journals, evaluation criteria of scholarly journals, etc. Main content of the lectures is to prepare a new issue of the departmental magazine JOIME. Thus, students have the opportunity to become familiar with all phases of the publishing proces. They write academic texts, evaluate each other's texts, handling promotion of journal, participate in the creation of design magazine and perform other activities associated with the development of the scholarly journal, according to their individual abilities. In this way, they gain practical and theoretical experiences in professional publishing activities and editorial team work. After completing the course, students will be prepared for scholarly publishing activities and qualified work in editorial team.
Syllabus
  • 1. Scholarly journals: Requirements and objectives of a scholarly journals, examples of foreign and domestic academic journals, evaluation criteria of scholarly jurnals, databases of scholarly journals. Introduction to the topic of the new issue of JOINME and selection of topics for articles. 2. Academic writing style, genres of academic texts, structure of academic texts. 3. Choosing the topic, work with resources, information retrieval, strategies of academic writing. Writing the first version of the article. 4. Bibliographic citation, the list of used literature, citation style. Writing the second version of the article. 5. Publication ethics, peer review, evaluation criteria for scholarly articles. Evaluation and selection of articles for publication. 6. Work with content management system, public relations, evaluation visits. 7. Evaluation of the course, feedback.
Literature
  • ŠANDEROVÁ, Jadwiga. Jak číst a psát odborný text ve společenských vědách. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2009, 209 pp. Studijní texty, 34. svazek. ISBN 978-80-86429-40-3. info
  • Odborná periodika: Convergence - http://con.sagepub.com/
  • Computational Culture - http://computationalculture.net/
  • New media and society - http://nms.sagepub.com/
  • APRJA - http://www.aprja.net/
  • Amodern - http://amodern.net/
  • Ctheory - http://www.ctheory.net/
  • Digital creativity - http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ndcr20/current
  • Databáze odborné literatury: SCOPUS - http://www.scopus.com/
  • ERIH - https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/erihplus/
  • Web of Science - webofscience.com
Teaching methods
Teaching takes the form of workshops where students learn the process of publishing scholarly periodicals online. 
 In the practical part of teaching and the self-study students gradually working on their articles from concept to proof.
Assessment methods
Evaluation of one article or multimedia work, evaluation of one peer review or editorial work on one article.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
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