Course: Mass Communication II

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Course title Mass Communication II
Course code KMS/KEMK2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Motal Jan, doc. MgA. Ph.D.
Course content
1. The Axiology of journalism and criticism of the liberal model 2. Discussion, dialogue and public domain in the context of new media 3. Deontological problems of the media - independence, objectivity, impartiality, concept of public interest (gatekeeping / agenda setting) 4. Commercialisation and commodification, propaganda 5. Consecutilistic media problems - moral panic, stigmatisation, desensitisation, secondary victimisation 6. Stereotypes, dehumanization, aestheticization of violence 7. Engaged media, community media Consultations by prior arrangement by e-mail one hour before the lesson.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course develops knowledge from Mass Communication I and applies it in the area of applied ethics. The course provides an introduction to the theoretical and methodological issues of media ethics and shows the possibilities of solving them using concrete material from contemporary Czech and foreign journalism, documentary and fiction. Students will learn about the foundations of normative theories of media and public sphere theories and their criticism, with a special emphasis on the new paradigm of media ethics emerging since the 1980s - dialogical ethics, ethics of care, global humanitarianism.

Prerequisites
A pre-requisite is to complete KMS/PEMK1.
KMS/KEMK1

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Attendance, active participation in classes, final test.
Recommended literature
  • Day, Louis A. (2006). Ethics in Media Communications: Cases and Controversies.. Belmont: Thomson Wadsworth.
  • Hallin, Daniel C. - Mancini, Paolo. Systémy médií v postmoderním světě. Portál, Praha, 2008.
  • Iggers, Jeremy. (1999). Good News, Bad News: Journalism Ethics and the Public Interest.. New York: Routledge.
  • KIERAN, Matthew. (1997). Media ethics :a philosophical approach. 1st pub.. Westport: Praeger.
  • Kunczik, M. (1995). Základy masové komunikace. Praha: Karolinum.
  • McQuail, D., & Antonínová, H. (2009). Úvod do teorie masové komunikace. Praha: Portál.
  • REIFOVÁ, I. a kol. (2004). Slovník mediální komunikace. Praha.
  • Trampota, T. (2006). Zpravodajství.. Praha: Portál.


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