BA Course in Media & Politics

This page is dedicated to general resources for a BA Course in Media & Politics that I still teach. The resources were posted in the fall semester of 2014. But most are still valid, and the rest will be updated the next time it is taught in the fall of 2019. You can read more about the course below or browse through the embedded presentation.

You can find the course description here (updated for 2018/19). Required readings are here (updated for 2018/19).

Below you can see the basic structure of the course. Available resources, such as lecture presentations, reading material, videos and links are posted as seperate posts for each lecture. Folow the links in the list below.

Introduction

1. Introduction

Part 1. Theories and concepts

1. Power
2. Framing
3. Witnessing and Memory
4. The audience

Part 2. Comparative politics

1. Representative democracy
2. The Public Sphere
3. Hate and conspiracy
4. Empowerment

Part 3. International relations

1. War
2. Terror
3. Ethnocentrism
4. Cosmopolitics

Conclusion

1. Conclusion