Specialization: course opened to all study programs
Warrantor: doc. PhDr. Martin Bútora
Instructor: Tom Nicholson, MA
Lecturing hours (weekly): 2
Credits: 3 ECTS
Date: Thursday 5 PM - 6.30 PM
Room: A3.12
Working language: English
Evaluation: passed/not passed
Aim of the course: This semester-long course will introduce students to the main media outlets in Canada and the United States, while providing insight into the history and main trends of the media market in North America. The course will include several case studies to highlight selected topics, and will close with an examination of the future of the media.
Preliminary timetable of the course:
- Main media outlets and corporate owners
- Birth of media in US and Canada
- Wire services
- The era of the ‘great editor’
- Investigative journalism
- History of journalistic photography
- Television
- Radio
- Power of media to shape public discourse
- Public broadcasters
- Media literacy
- Internet
DOWNLOADS:
Lecture Notes 7 + Media Concentration
Assignment 1: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216
Assignment 2: http://www.thinkandask.com/news/mediagiants.html
Assignment 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urq6V_inLVk
Assignment 9: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/opinion/04krugman.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Assignment 10 (1): http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all
Assignment 10 (2): http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/us/22koch.htm
