2022/2023

Публичная сфера и медиа-политика

Статус: Маго-лего

Кто читает: Департамент политики и управления

Когда читается: 3 модуль

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Преподаватели: Потсар Анна Никитична

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 3

Контактные часы: 36

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The concept of the rhetorical public sphere based on dialogue was introduced by G.Hauser in relation to the democratic state. The growth of the public communication both direct and transmitted by media ends in the impossibility to distinct what is public and private. Social and political life in the contemporary world is the life of constant public communication, while the concept of public sphere is one of the keys to understand political and social changes. The dialogue considered as the basic notion associated with human consciousness: difference is an indispensable condition for dialogue, which relates to the public communication not only literally (conversation between two and more people), but, more abstract, as the exchange and competition between ideologies, actors, companies, countries. The course aims to explain the mechanisms of media influence on the knowledge and understanding of social and political processes, providing skills both for analysis of mediatized reality and for composing the strategy of communication by media relevant for political actors. The course introduces main definitions of public dialogue and related terms, forms and stages of its development, methods of analysis and estimation of discursive practices, explains the structure of discourse: the author, the audience, the subject of speech, speech effect. Students will learn to specify and structure disputing positions in public dialogue, to approach to utterance, or text, or sequence of utterances and texts as a source of implicit information by usage of relevant categories of linguistic criticism, linguo-stylistics, rhetoric, semiotics, argumentation theory. Students will also see media policy as the consequent development of verbal actions aimed to media sphere. They will understand discourse as a social speech, discourse as ideology, considering the media policy of an actor as the consequence of public utterances. The course will show the potential of linguistic analysis, revealing ways of transforming any values and ideology in media discourse.