Media systems

The course aims is to provide students with a knowledge about media systems – theory and practice in different countries.

1. The concept of the media system

2. Political theories and media

3. The liberal model - Great Britain

4. Model of democratic corporatism – Germany

5. Model of polarized pluralism – France

6. Model of polarized pluralism – Italy

7. The media system in the USA

8. Media systems in the countries of political transformation – Poland

9. The Russian media system

10. The Belarusian media system

11. The impact of technology on changes in media system.

12. Social media and media systems

B. Dobek-Ostrowska, M. Glowacki, K. Jakubowicz, & M. Sükösd (2010), Comparative Media Systems. European and Global Perspective, Budapest: CEU Press.

Hallin, D. C., & Mancini, P. (2004). Comparing media systems: Three models of media and politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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

Daniel C. Hallin, Typology of Media Systems

http://politics.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-205

Rethinking Hallin and Mancini Beyond the West: An Analysis of Media Systems in Central and Eastern Europe

http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6035

Hollis D.W., The Media in America, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 1995.

Kuhn R., Politics and the Media in Britian. Palgrave, Basingstoke & New York 2007.

Different Media Systems in U.S. and France Impact Success of Online News Startups Says Powers

https://cmds.ceu.edu/article/2016-04-28/different-media-systems-us-and-france-impact-success-online-news-startups-says

Student knows the basic rules for the functioning of PR and the relations of companies and institutions with the media, is able to distinguish different media systems of the world and can function in different media systems.

No final exam

Credit based on:

Class attendance and active participation (20%)

Two practical assignments: Writing an essay or making a presentation (2 x 40%)