Enrollment year
2015/2016
Academic discipline
SPS/06 (HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Curriculum
MODERNO E CONTEMPORANEO
Period
2nd semester (23/02/2016 - 30/05/2016)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of international history/politics from the second WW to today
Learning outcomes
The main aim of this course is to reassess the complex and controversial interaction between world politics and the media by focusing on the political/strategic dimension of international crises, media perceptions and tendencies towards 'mediatisation': a dynamic process shaping/manipulating the understanding of events via media representation.
Course contents
This course is organised in three sections:
1) Cold war crises (Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Afghanistan) and their political and media narratives.
2) Crises at the end of the cold war and in the 1990s (the Berlin wall, Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo and the Caucasus) will be analysed as new challenges for international politics as well as the development of a new theatre for media exploitation.
3) Global crises (terrorism, the environment, financial crises, humanitarian crises, new movements of public dissent) will be studied by focusing on test cases that provide significant insights in the creation of dominant narratives by the media.
Teaching methods
This course consist of weekly lectures and seminars both requiring students' attendance. As regards to seminars, students will work in groups to discuss questions and sources previously planned with the teaching staff.
Reccomended or required readings
Reading list and web sources:
S COTTLE, Global Crisis Reporting, NY 2009
E. S. HERMAN and N CHOMSKY, Manufacturing Consent: The political Economy of the Mass Media, Random House, London, 2008
P ROBINSON, Theorizing the Influence of Media on World Politics. Models of Media Influence on Foreign Policy, European Journal of Communication December 2001 vol. 16 no. 4, pp 523-544
J LLOYD/C MARCONI, REPORTING THE EU
NEWS, MEDIA AND THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS, London 2014
P ROBINSON, The CNN effect: can the news media drive foreign policy? Review of international studies, Volume 25 / Issue 02 / April 1999, pp 301-309
N MICHAUD, H M HENSEL (e d by), Global Media Perspectives on the Crisis in Panama, London, 2011
E S ROSENBERG, Consumer capitalism and the end of the Cold War in The Cambridge History of the Cold War,
edited by Melvyn P. Leffler, Odd Arne Westad, vol 3, 2010, chapter 23, pp. 489-512
The Policy-Media Interaction Model: Measuring Media Power during Humanitarian Crisis, Journal of Peace Research September 2000 37: 613-633,
WEB SOURCES at:
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
The National Security Archive www.nsarchive.org
Assessment methods
Grading is the sum of three factors: 1) active class attendance; 2) results of the final, written test; 3) evaluation of at least one individual research paper.
Further information
Guest lecturers may take part in classes or seminars
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