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Current Affairs in the EU-Russia Discourse: Critical Readings and News Texts Analysis - ABO700892
Anglický název: Current Affairs in the EU-Russia Discourse: Critical Readings and News Texts Analysis
Zajišťuje: Ústav české literatury a komparatistiky (21-UCLK)
Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
Platnost: od 2023
Semestr: letní
Body: 5
E-Kredity: 5
Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:0/2, Zk [HT]
Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
4EU+: ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
Kompetence:  
Stav předmětu: vyučován
Jazyk výuky: angličtina
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Způsob výuky: prezenční
Úroveň:  
Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán
povolen pro zápis po webu
Garant: Mgr. Ilia Kozlov
Anotace - angličtina
The primary focus of this course is to familiarise students with a choice of analytical tools and frameworks available for news text analysis from various standpoints (social and political sciences, linguistics, stylistics, media studies, etc.). The overall criticality of developing practical analytical skills for interacting with media messages cannot be overstated, considering current international affairs (Russia’s war with Ukraine and its resultant consequences, climate crisis, global inflation — all this included). Moreover, political and news discourses are substantially interwoven; they both construct social realities, shape public policies, and represent the goings-on in the world in diverse ways. To top it all, the technological advances of the last few decades have also played a critical role in how traditional and new media function. Coupled with opportunities presented by social media, news discourse can be taken metaphorically as a battlefield of contrasting social realities constructed by the media. From there, there’s the need for critical approaches to analysing and decoding news ideological effects.

Throughout the course, in agreement with students, there will be chosen currently running or recently taken place news events within EU-Russia relations that will be studied and analysed in class, given the framework relevant to the seminar. Individually and in groups, students are expected to closely examine a selection of news at various levels, whether it be structural, stylistic/linguistic, cultural, symbolical, political, etc. The end goal of such exercises is to identify ideological effects encoded into news text on multiple planes plus to uncover the complexities of news production that experiences
paradigm shifts with the rise of the Internet.
Poslední úprava: Kozlov Ilia, Mgr. (17.01.2024)
Cíl předmětu - angličtina

The course tends to deliver a number of objectives, namely:
● To lay out news text structures, zooming in on each component to spot media and ideological effects possible to be decoded.
● To offer analytical tools and frameworks from political science, media studies, stylistics/linguistics, and other fields.
● To put theory into practice by critically analysing real-world news events in context.
● To develop basic media literacy skills to evaluate news messages, assess news agenda, and critically interact with a textual layer of a news story.
● To put current affairs into perspective and track news developments.

Poslední úprava: Kozlov Ilia, Mgr. (17.01.2024)
Podmínky zakončení předmětu - angličtina

To complete the course, students are expected to meet one of two requirements:
● Proactive in-class participation and a presentation on a seminar’s topic;
● Proactive in-class participation and a comparative analysis of a given news event from two or more sources (1000 words).

Poslední úprava: Kozlov Ilia, Mgr. (17.01.2024)
Literatura - angličtina
  • Couldry, N., & Hepp, A. (2017). The Mediated Construction of Reality. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • De Beaugrande, R., & Dressler, W. (1981). Introduction to text linguistics. London & New York: Longman.
  • Fairclough, N.: Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language. 2010.
  • Jeffries, L. (2010). Critical Stylistics: The Power of English. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Kovach, B., & Rosenstiel, T. (2014). The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect (3rd ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press.
  • Lippmann, W.: Liberty and the News . New York 1920.
  • McQuail, D. (2010). McQuail's Mass Communication Theory (6th ed.). London: Sage Publications.
  • Silverstone, R. (2007). Media and Morality: On the Rise of the Mediapolis. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Wahl-Jorgensen, K., & Hanitzsch, T. (Eds.). (2009). The Handbook of Journalism Studies. New York: Routledge.
  • + Further suggested reads tailored to in-class activities.
Poslední úprava: Kozlov Ilia, Mgr. (17.01.2024)
Sylabus - angličtina

Introduction to News Discourse and Its Framework

  • Approaches to news media discourse process
  • Actors in News Discourse
  • Discourse structure for news texts
  • Critical discourse analysis


News Event Analysis 1. Constructing a News Story

  • News distribution: How much is enough?
  • News fragmentation: Getting the news flowing
  • The perils of oversimplification
  • The inverted pyramid news story structure


News Event Analysis 2. What do Headlines and Leads Tell Us?

  • News production: What is a news event?
  • Gerbner’s communication model and its application
  • Approaches to Headlines: From traditional media to SEO practices


News Event Analysis 3. Critical Stylistics and Ideological Effects

  • Principles of intentionality and a text producer’s intents
  • Applying Lesley Jeffries’ critical set of stylistic tools
  • The author dilemma: Whose intentions Do We Decode?


News Agenda Analysis 1. News Editorial Practices and Ideology

  • Media organisations’ standards and practices
  • News values and story selection
  • Representing or constructing a reality?


News Agenda Analysis 2. News Framing and Approach to Analysis

  • Pan and Kosicki’s Framing Analysis: What to Follow
  • What is foregrounded, backgrounded, and left out?


News Event Analysis 4. Propaganda and Its Devices

  • What is new in modern propaganda techniques?
  • Fake news, post-truth, gaslighting - making up alternative realities
  • Approaches to reality, representation, and appearance


News Event Analysis 5. Opposing, Contrasting and “Us vs. Them”

  • Power relations in news discourse
  • Opposing social and cultural constructs in narration
  • The West vs. the Rest Paradox


News Agenda Analysis 3. Society and Public Opinion

  • Labelling, castes and roles of societies
  • SPO model: Actors and Goals
  • Which audience do journalists serve?


News Event Analysis 6. Factuality and Opinionism in News

  • What is a fact? What nature does it hold?
  • Role of facts in news production
  • Opinions and commentary in the news
  • Infotainment


News Language: A tool or a weapon?

  • Editorial standards and language evolution
  • News language in a digital age
  • How to stay true to your audience


Media Literacy and Media Education

  • Are we media literate enough?
  • Media literacy index
  • Media literacy practices
  • Media education as part of the curriculum
Poslední úprava: Kozlov Ilia, Mgr. (17.01.2024)
 
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