International Study Course: Politics and Media Reflecting Current Challenges - JKM596

• Title: International Study Course: Politics and Media Reflecting Current Challenges
• Guaranteed by: Department of Marketing Communication and Public Relations (23-KMKPR)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, MC [HT]
• Capacity: 10 / 10 (10)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: yes / unlimited
• Key competences: critical thinking, data literacy
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: distance
• 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: Mgr. Anna Shavit, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Adam Coman, Ph.D.

Literature

Required Reading:

Bernhard, Michael H. and Jan Kubik, eds. Twenty years after communism: The politics of memory and commemoration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Cabada, Ladislav. 2023. Struggle against Disinformation in the Czech Republic: Treading the Water. Politics in Central Europe 19, no. s1 (September 20): 371–391.

Hoskins, Andrew ed. Digital memory studies: Media pasts in transition. New York: Routledge, 2018.

Illouz, Eva. The emotional life of populism: How fear, disgust, resentment, and love undermine democracy. John Wiley & Sons, 2023

Jowett, G., and V. O’Donnell. Propaganda and Persuasion. Sage, 2006. 

Muller, Jan-Werner. What is Populism?. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016

Last update: Shavit Anna, Mgr., Ph.D. (26.01.2026)