The student will become familiar with the key concepts regarding media and democracy. She will learn to understand the role of media and journalism in the democratic process as well as the participatory role of the citizens in this context.
The course focuses on the functions that media have in the democratic society. How the media provide a platform for democratic discourse and how they contribute to democratic process.
This course is held as an intensive programme during two weeks. The course consists of five lectures (2 hours each) and a literature essay.
Literature essay
Based on one of the following books:
Calhoun (ed.), Habermas and the Public Sphere. MIT 1992.
Dahlgren, Television and the Public Sphere: Citizenship, Democracy and the Media. Sage 1995.
Dahlgren & Sparks (eds.), Communication and Citizenship. Routledge 1991.
Fishkin, Debating deliberative democracy. Malden : Blackwell, 2003
Glasser (ed.), The Idea of Public Journalism. Guilford 1999.
Keane, Media and Democracy. Polity 1991.
Negrine, The Communication of Politics. Sage, 1996.
Wilhelm, Democracy in the Media Age. Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace. Routledge 2000.
Details about the essay are delivered at the beginning of the course.
To sign up for this course, please, e-mail to Laura Ruusunoksa laura.ruusunoksa@uta.fi by 20.4.2009.