After completing the course, students will have a deep understanding of the core theories on the role of the media in global societal change. They have acquired the basis for making sense of how the media play a role in the processes in which national policies take their form, and aware of how both the traditional news media and social media affect domestic policies.

Max. 16 students.

Students will be accepted to the seminar in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP in Global and Transnational Studies

2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, MDP in Quantitative Social Research, MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare)

3. other degree students of UTA

4. exchange students