PC2E The Media and the Democratic Process, 5 ECTS – Department of Journalism and Mass Communication

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PC2E The Media and the Democratic Process 5 ECTS

Organised by

Journalism and Mass Communication/ISSS

Belongs to following study modules

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.