Media in Post-Totalitarian Countries - JJM462

• Title: Media in Post-Totalitarian Countries
• Czech title: Média v posttotalitních zemích
• Guaranteed by: Department of Journalism (23-KZ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023 to 2023
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 28 / 28 (28)
• 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: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. PhDr. Jan Jirák, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): prof. PhDr. Jan Jirák, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses not for incoming students

Annotation

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Jirák, Ph.D. (24.09.2023)

The purpose of the course Media in Post-Totalitarian Countries is (a) to offer a basic knowledge of the development of the media in countries with totalitarian past after 1989 till nowadays and (b) to support students´ critical approach to reflections on mass and social media in their life and in contemporary societies. The course is designed as a seminar (with some introductory lecturing) with strong active participation of students (the “country media report” every meeting. The course requires only some basic knowledge of sociology, social theory and communication science on an introductory level, some basic knowledge of world (American and European) history and popular culture.

Course completion requirements

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Jirák, Ph.D. (24.09.2023)

Grading policy (100 points max.)

„Country media report" is a piece of text focused on analysis of both mass a and social media development in chosen country (Poland, Germany, Russia, Ukraina and other countries of former U.S.S.R., Hungary, Slovakia, countries of former Yugoslavia and others, NOT Czechia,...) after the fall of totalitarian régime, incl. the reflections on media development in chosen country in the world daily press or other public media in given time period (depends upon the chosen country). Each student/team of students will prepare the country report for meetings: Nov 6th to Dec 18th). The dates of presentation will be decided during the first session (Oct 9th).

 

Grades:

100-91 points = A

90-81 points = B

80-71 points = C

70-61 points = D

60-51 points = E

50-0 points = F (failure)

Literature

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Jirák, Ph.D. (24.09.2023)

Required readings

CURRAN, J. – FENTON, N. – FREEDMAN, D (2012): Misunderstanding the Internet. London: Routledge

JAKUBOWICZ Karol (2007): Rude Awakening: Social and Media Change in Central and Eastern Europe. Hampton Press, 2007

MEIKLE, G. (2016): Social Media. London: Routledge

CHALKLEY, T. – HOBBS, M. – BROWN, A. – CINQUE, T. – WARREN, B. – FINN, M. Communication, Digital Media and Everyday Life, Oxford University Press, 2015

GROSS Peter, JAKUBOWICZ Karol (eds.): Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe's Tortured Path to Change. Lanham, Boulder, New York: Lexington Books 2012, 212 p., ISBN 978-0-7391-7494-4

MURDOCH, Graham, GRIPSRUD, Jostein (eds.): Money Talks: Media, Markets, Crisis. Bristol, Chicago: Intellect Books, 2015, 240 p., ISSN: 1742-9439

O´NEIL, Patrick (ed.): Post-Communism and the Media in Eastern Europe. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. 140 p., ISBN: 978-0-714-64311-3

 

Complementary readings

Curran, J. (2011): Media and Democracy. London: Routledge

Poster, M. (1995): The Second Media Age. Cambridge: Polity Press

Postman, N. any book

Syllabus

Last update: prof. PhDr. Jan Jirák, Ph.D. (25.09.2023)

01. Meeting cancelled (02. 10.)

02. Course description, assingments  (09. 10.)

03. Reflections on the Media: Basics (16. 10.)

04. Transformation completed: Czech Media 1 – development till the end of 1980s (23. 10.)

05. Transformation completed:Czech media 2 – development after 1989 (30. 10.)

06. Transformation in the process: intro, country media report (choice: some postsoviet country, exl. Baltic states and Ukraine) + discussion (06. 11.)

07.  Transformation in the process: intro, country media report (choice: some postsoviet country, exl. Baltic states and Ukraine) + discussion (13. 11.)

08. Transformation in the process: country media report (choice: Baltic states and Ukraine) + discussion (20. 11.)

09.  Transformation in the process: country media report (choice: Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia. Montenegro, Albania) + discussion (27. 11.)

10. Transformation in the process: country media report (choice: Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia. Montenegro, Albania) + discussion (04. 12.)

11. Westernatization as transformation: country media report (choice: Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia) + discussion (11. 12.)

12. Westernatization as transformation: country media report (choice: Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia) + discussion, evaluation (18.12.)