Course focuses on the functions that the media have in the democratic society. How the media provide a platform for democratic discourse and how they contribute democratic process.
Teaching methods
Teaching method
Contact
Online
Lectures
10 h
0 h
Teaching language
English
Modes of study
Lectures (10h), literature and essay.
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.
Study materials
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.