Learning outcomes

Students will engage in-depth study about normative theories prescribing the roles and functions of media in society with an emphasis on its importance for management work in media firms. Media ethics will be a featured element.

Contents

• Influential perspectives on what media are supposed to do and be reflecting different social systems
• Historic development process of media in society
• Media’s capacity to both affect and reflect societal change
• The keen importance of ethics in media business practice

Teaching methods

Lectures (4 hours total) to begin and conclude the course and readings that students complete on their own. Students will organise with the instructor for choosing the books that are most relevant for their interests and research needs.

Teaching language

English, Finnish

Mixed: Finnish and English

Evaluation and evaluation criteria

Numeric 1-5.
Participation in the lectures, readings and a book examination.

Study materials

This reading course is part of the Media History module in Journalism and Mass Communication (TIEDAV1a).

Readings specified there (http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/tiedotus/studies/TIEDAV1a_literature.pdf) in the area of Media History. The following will also be included:

Christians, Clifford, Glasser, Theodore, McQuail, Denis, Nordenstreng, Kaarle, White, Robert (2009) Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies. Chicago and Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Hallin, Daniel C. and Paolo Mancini (2004) Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics. UK: Cambridge University Press.

Belongs to following study modules