BA Course Media & Politics

This page is dedicated to general resources for a BA Course in Media & Politics, taught for the third time in the Fall semester of 2014 at Lillehammer University College. For access to messages, responses, assignments, dates, locations etc. which are either confidential or purely of interest for students taking the course; login to the local learning platform Fronter.


You can read more about the course below or browse through the embedded presentation.

You can find the course description here.

Required readings: Books are posted here and a list of articles here

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