The course Journalism in international relations is oriented toward students in international relations and is focused on providing general knowledge and understanding of current media system and particularly its role within international relations, foreign policy etc.
Learning Objectives
To form the general understanding of media system and the role of the journalism within it;
To provide some practical aspects of the journalistic job;
To form the theoretical understanding of the main approaches and theories about the media and policy (including the foreign policy).
To form the general understanding of the international journalism as a soft power.
To provide practical and methodological skills to analyze the journalistic work in international context
Expected Learning Outcomes
Orient within main fields of journalism as profession
To be able to analyze media coverage and media outlets
Understand professional division of labor in journalism and role of journalists in the society
Understand the place of media within international relations
Course Contents
Media system and journalism in the society
Journalism as profession
Interrelations of journalism and political sphere
History of political journalism in the societies
Theories of global media and their critique
Journalism as soft power in international relations
Fake news, propaganda and hybrid wars: the role of the journalism.
Methods to analyse journalistic production
Assessment Elements
Seminars activity
Final essay
Interim Assessment
2021/2022 4th module
The grade is 0.05Attendance + 0.50SeminarHomework + 0.45FinalProject
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
An introduction to journalism : essential techniques and background knowledge, Rudin, R., 2002
Castells, Manuel. The Power of Identity : The Information Age - Economy, Society, and Culture, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=470449.
Comparing media systems : three models of media and politics, Hallin, D. C., 2004
Hard power, soft power and the future of transatlantic relations, , 2006
Key concepts in media and communications, Jones, P., 2011
Lie, J. (2013). South Korean Literature in the Age of the Korean Wave: Soft Power, Literary Value, and Cultural Policy in South Korea. Korea Observer, 44(4), 647–668. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=poh&AN=94280503
New as it happens : an introduction to journalism, Lamble, S., 2013
Smith, Bruce Lannes, and Harold D. Lasswell. Propaganda, Communication and Public Opinion, Princeton University Press, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4071105.
The structural transformation of the public sphere : an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society, Habermas, J., 2008
Recommended Additional Bibliography
GILBOA, E. (2005). The CNN Effect: The Search for a Communication Theory of International Relations. Political Communication, 22(1), 27–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584600590908429
Instructor
Berezhnaya, Tina
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Learning Objectives
Expected Learning Outcomes
Course Contents
Assessment Elements
Interim Assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
Recommended Additional Bibliography
Authors