Master
2023/2024
Russian Media System
Type:
Compulsory course (Politics. Economics. Philosophy)
Area of studies:
Political Science
Delivered by:
Institute of Media
Where:
Faculty of Social Sciences
When:
1 year, 3, 4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Master’s programme:
Политика. Экономика. Философия
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
56
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course focuses on the peculiarities of the Russian media system, especially in relation to the social, political and cultural structures ingrained in Russian public life. The course explains the very concept of a media system, its structure and dynamics, as well as the historical stages of development of the domestic media system. This course provides an overview of media systems (print media, news agencies, radio, television, online media, social media, book publishing, film industry and media companies), and also provides a critical analysis of modern media practices.
Learning Objectives
- Examine the modern structure and dynamics of the media system
- Provide wide historical background for understanding Russian media peculiarities
- Explore transformation of social life in Russia and its influence on media systems
- Identify types of media systems, their similarities and differences
- Conduct a critical analysis of modern media practices
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Names historical roots of ideological control
- Able to explain the definition of the media system, its main segments
- Describes the role of media in social development
- Names historical stages of development of the national media system
- Names the main regulatory documents governing the ethical component of the media
- Able to identify the difficulties of following ethical media standards and to explain the reasons
- Names the main characteristics of newspaper periodicals
- Able to explain the role of print media in manipulating society in historical context
- Describes the role of Russian information agencies in development of new information technologies
- Names factors influencing Russian radio broadcasting
- Names factors of influence on Russian television
- Correctly establish сlassification and general characteristics of online media
- Describes prospects for the development of online media
- Names features of the functioning of social networks
- Describes current trends in the development of Russian social media
- Describes main trends in the development of the book publishing industry at the present stage
- Able to explain the specific of video piracy in Russia
- Able to express the role of advertising in media content
- Describes the main stages of development of public relations
- Able to describe economic history of the Russian media system
- Names the features of Russian media companies
- Able to define the concept “media audience”
- Names characteristics and typology of the audience
- Describes the history of manipulative forms of social management
- Able to consider manipulations from a humanitarian and philosophical point of view
Course Contents
- Modern structure and dynamics of the media system
- Historical stages of development of the national media system
- Legal and ethical regulation of the media
- Print media
- News agencies
- Broadcasting and television
- Online media and social media
- Book publishing
- Film industry
- Advertising
- Public relations
- Media companies
- Media audience and critical analysis of modern media practices
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 4th module0.4 * Активность + 0.3 * Домашнее задание + 0.3 * Итоговый доклад
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Arutunyan, Anna. Media in Russia, McGraw-Hill Education, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=480619.
- Carothers, Thomas, and Gramont, Diane de. Development Aid Confronts Politics : The Almost Revolution, Brookings Institution Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1167366.
- Parta, R. Eugene. Empirical Assessment of Radio Liberty and Western Broadcasting to the USSR During the Cold War, Hoover Institution Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3301867.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Mickiewicz, Ellen Propper. Split Signals : Television and Politics in the Soviet Union, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1990. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=272728.
- Rulyova, N., Hutchings, S. C., & Beumers, B. (2009). The Post-Soviet Russian Media : Conflicting Signals. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=253813