ADVANCED STUDIES IN MEDIA AND POLITICS*

概要

The news media are enormously powerful and have a strong role in all aspects of governance. Should journalists, who are not elected by the people, have this much power, and can they exercise it effectively? Or are news organisations inevitably compromised by their drive for profit? What is the impact of the tumultuous change sweeping the news media? Will traditional news survive? Should it? What is the nature of the media’s power: how fully and in what ways do the media shape public opinion, elections, debate, and policy? Are the media politically biased? How adept are political leaders at manipulating the media, and do their efforts undermine democracy? Do new communication technologies threaten the role of the traditional media? What can be learned from news coverage of the War on Terror, the war in Iraq, and the 2016 US presidential election? How does the media environment vary in different cultural contexts? Questions such as these will be addressed in this course.

目標

Upon completing this class, students should be able to: • Understand the influences of particular media issues on domestic and international politics • Develop observations and conclusions about selected themes in media and politics; • Construct interpretations using evidence and critical analysis; • Understand concepts in media theory; • Communicate and defend interpretations. Furthermore, this course is designed to help students: • Develop thinking, learning and communication skills • Develop skills in identifying, accessing and evaluating sources of information • Promote curiosity and life-long learning • Understand the construction and conventions of political science writing • Use citations and referencing appropriately • Appropriately integrate information, arguments, and perspectives from political science sources into their own work • Use political science databases In this course, students learn by reading and reflecting on the assigned texts, participating in class discussion, leading seminars, asking questions, and writing papers.

授業外の学習

Students can expect approximately 190 minutes of preparation per class. 40 minutes reflecting on previous lecture 60 minutes reading 90 minutes writing notes, preparing written assignment and presentations and writing class discussion questions.

所要時間: 190 minutes