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Name
Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals
Position(s)
Lecturer (Journalism)
Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Communication
Discipline *
Communication and Media Studies, Journalism and Professional Writing
Phone
+61 7 3138 0157
Email
Location
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Identifiers and profiles
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Qualifications

PhD (City University, London)

Professional memberships
and associations
Keywords

Journalism Studies, Political Communication, Media and Democracy, Election Reporting (Brexit), Fake News

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Biography

Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals is a Lecturer in Journalism and Political Communication in the School of Communication of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia, as well as a Research Associate in the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), where he is working on the three-year ARC Discovery Project “Journalism beyond the crisis”. He is the lead editor of “Digitizing Democracy”, a major edited collection in the field of political communication, published by Routledge in 2019.

 

Previously, he worked as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Journalism at City, University of London. Additionally, he has experience as a practising journalist working for the Financial Times as well as the German government organisation Federal Agency for Civic Education.

 

His research interests lie in the changes taking place in news production and consumption as a result of the internet, with a particular focus on social media and verification, algorithms and automation in contemporary news production as well as election reporting more broadly, with a particular focus on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (‘Brexit’).

This information has been contributed by Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals.

Teaching

Semester 1:

 

Newswriting (CJB101)

 

By adopting a hands-on newsroom approach and industry-based assessment, this unit provides a foundation for advanced and specialised professional journalistic reporting techniques. Professional journalists require such foundational knowledge and skills in order to practice in either traditional or evolving newsrooms.

 

Semester 2:

 

Journalistic Enquiry (CJB103)

 

This unit develops journalism skills and knowledge acquired in Newswriting – generating story ideas and finding angles, researching, conducting interviews, and exercising news values. It concentrates on newsgathering aspects and introduces students to basic elements of a regular journalist’s life such as news rounds and rigorous deadlines.

 

Political Communication (KCB302)

 

This unit provides an overview of the theory and professional practices of political and governmental communication, especially through the media and communications industries. The unit examines contemporary and historical political issues and communications in Australia and internationally from the perspectives of democratic theory, media influence, strategic image and issue management, and popular culture.

This information has been contributed by Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals.

Publications


For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

Awards

Awards and recognition

Type
Funding Award
Reference year
2018
Details
Short PDL: "Illuminating the Status Quo of Automated Journalism in German Newsrooms" (accepted for presentation at the Algorithmic News conference in Munich, to be taking place in May 2018).
Type
Reviewer for an Academic Journal
Reference year
2018
Details
Reviewer for International Journal of Communication (IJoC) based at USC Annenberg School of Communication, Los Angeles, USA.
Type
Reviewer for an Academic Journal
Reference year
2018
Details
Reviewer for Journalism Studies
Type
Funding Award
Reference year
2012
Details
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship for the MA Double Degree 'Journalism & Media within Globalisation: The European Perspective' based at City, University of London, UK.

Research projects

Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)

Title
Journalism Beyond the Crisis: Emerging Forms, Practices and Uses
Primary fund type
CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
Project ID
DP160101211
Start year
2016
Keywords