Winter Semester 2009/10
Winter Semester 2010/11
Contemporary media PN05401
Course content
Course content:
1. theoretical approach to social communication,
2. impacts of media on people,
3. selected contemporary media systems,
4. new media,
5. agenda-setting theory,
6. media policy,
7. audiences of various media and experiences related to absorbtion of media messages,
8. normative approach to media.
Learning outcomes:
- ability of identification of typical features of contemporary media systems,
- ability of analysing effects of media impacts on people,
- ability of analysing media messages.
(in Polish) Rodzaj przedmiotu
Course coordinators
Bibliography
Bibliography
a) basic references:
1. Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics, by D.C.Hallin, P.Mancini.
2. European Media Studies by K.Williams.
3. Selected foreign media system, edited by J.W.Adamowski.
4. Setting the Agenda. The Mass Media and Public Opinion by M. McCombs.
b) supplementary references:
1. The Language of New Media by L. Manovich.
2. Media policy and electronic media by K.Jakubowicz;
3. The media and modernity: a social theory of the media by
J. B. Thompson.