Game On: Sports Media Foundations (11932.1)

Required texts

Required Text: Sport and the Media: Managing the Nexus    (Click on Ebook central to access the text.)  

Nicholson, M., Kerr, A., & Sherwood, M. (2015). Sport and the media: Managing the nexus (2nd ed). Taylor & Francis Group.

Other Sports Media Books are available at this link Links to an external site.. 

Other readings are provided in class.

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

Assessment Tasks are submitted via the unit's CANVAS site.

Special assessment requirements

Do what's right!

1. Report and interpret honestly, striving for accuracy, fairness and disclosure of all essential facts. Do not suppress relevant available facts, or give distorting emphasis. Do your utmost to give a fair opportunity for reply.

2. Do not place unnecessary emphasis on personal characteristics, including race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, sexual orientation, family relationships, religious belief, or physical or intellectual disability.

3. Aim to attribute information to its source. Where a source seeks anonymity, do not agree without first considering the source's motives and any alternative attributable source. Where confidences are accepted, respect them in all circumstances.

4. Do not allow personal interest, or any belief, commitment, payment, gift or benefit, to undermine your accuracy, fairness or independence.

5. Disclose conflicts of interest that affect, or could be seen to affect, the accuracy, fairness or independence of your journalism. Do not improperly use a journalistic position for personal gain.

6. Do not allow advertising or other commercial considerations to undermine accuracy, fairness or independence.

7. Do your utmost to ensure disclosure of any direct or indirect payment made for interviews, pictures, information or stories.

8. Use fair, responsible and honest means to obtain material. Identify yourself and your employer before obtaining any interview for publication or broadcast. Never exploit a person's vulnerability or ignorance of media practice.

9. Present pictures and sound which are true and accurate. Any manipulation likely to mislead should be disclosed.

10. Do not plagiarise. All work is original. If you have to cite someone else give them credit.  

11. Respect private grief and personal privacy at all times

12. Do your utmost to achieve fair correction of errors.

13. where necessary, inform people you interview that you work is for online publication

Academic integrity

Students have a responsibility to uphold University standards on ethical scholarship. Good scholarship involves building on the work of others and use of others' work must be acknowledged with proper attribution made. Cheating, plagiarism, and falsification of data are dishonest practices that contravene academic values. Refer to the University's Student Charter for more information.

To enhance understanding of academic integrity, all students are expected to complete the Academic Integrity Module (AIM) at least once during their course of study. You can access this module within UCLearn (Canvas) through the 'Academic Integrity and Avoiding Plagiarism' link in the Study Help site.

Use of Text-Matching Software

The University of Canberra uses text-matching software to help students and staff reduce plagiarism and improve understanding of academic integrity. The software matches submitted text in student assignments against material from various sources: the internet, published books and journals, and previously submitted student texts.

Participation requirements

The key word for this unit is 'nexus'.

To fully understand the nexus of sport (i.e., its typology and how sport media functions within it), students should participate in lectures, read the assigned readings, and participate in tutorials. Such comprehension of the nexus will give you a secure and sustainable platform for other units in the Sport Media degree.

Nexus thinking is your opportunity to recognise the increasing complexities of bringing powerful Sport Media content to its publics! Thus the challenge in this unit is to yield sport-media-content-relevance meaningfully (to meet immedite needs and your longer term goals).           

Required IT skills

Internet use, web applications (such as CANVAS and Social Media) are required for this unit.  

Work placement, internships or practicums

Simluated social media presence, radio and television pre production, script writing, and reporting are required in this unit.    

• Semester 1, 2024, On-Campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (216062)