Czech Media System in European Comparison - JJM180

• Title: Czech Media System in European Comparison
• Guaranteed by: Department of Media Studies (23-KMS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2012 to 2013
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, C [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (30)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: PhDr. Tomáš Trampota, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Tomáš Trampota, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Tomáš Trampota, Ph.D. (24.02.2014)

Subject Czech media system in European Comparison will provide basic outline of Czech media landscape. Students will learn basic trends of the development of Czech media in last twenty years and will understand key frameworks of functioning of Czech media; principles of regulation and economical and cultural conditions of Czech media. Subject will provide actual situation in print media, radio, television and internet markets. Students will learn the position of key media entrepreneurs within both audience and advertising markets. Czech media landscape will be introduced in comparison with key European media markets (Great Britain, Germany, France). Understanding of the specifics and similarities of Czech media with European media systems will be one of the outcomes of the subject.

Course completion requirements

Last update: PhDr. Tomáš Trampota, Ph.D. (24.02.2014)

Assesment components:

1) Midterm essay comparing one of the segments of Czech media system with selected European country.

2) Final exam - test.

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Tomáš Trampota, Ph.D. (24.02.2014)

Hardy, J. (2008) Western Media Systems. Routledge.

Hallin, D., Mancini, P. (2004) Comparing Media Systems. Three Models of Media and Politics. Cambridge University Press.

Harcourt, A. (2005) The European Union and the regulation of media markets. European Policy Research Unit.

Hoffmann- Riem (1996) Regulating Media. The Licencing and Supervision of Broadcasting in six countries. The Guilford Press.  

Siebert, F. S. et al. (1956) Four Theories of the Press. University of Illinois Press.

Sparks, C. (2007) Globalization, Development and the Mass Media. London: Sage.

Price, M. E., Rozumilowitz, B., Verhulst, S. G. (2002) Media Reform. Democratizing the media, democratizing the state. Routledge.

Trappel, J., Meier, W. A., D´Haenens, L., Steemers, J., Thomass, B. (eds.) (2011) Intellect. Bristol.

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Tomáš Trampota, Ph.D. (24.02.2014)

 

1)       Media and systemic perspective.

2)       Media systems comparation and its limitation.

3)       Czech media before Velvet revolution.

4)       Laboratory of Freedom: Transforming media system.

5)       Print media I. Daily Press.

6)       Print media II. Magazines.

7)       Radio  after 1989.

8)       Twenty years of free television.

9)       Internet, digitalization and new media.

10)   Advertising market.

11)   Media research.

12)   Re-liberalisation as the future of CMS?