Media Discourse

Ficha de unidade curricular - Ano letivo 2016/2017

Teaching language

English

Intended learning outcomes (Knowledges, skills and competencies to be developed by the students)

Understanding the analytical categories of “experience”, “speech” and “mediation”.
Understanding, in an analytical and critical manner, the contemporary mediating phenomena.
Understanding the discursive and pragmatic dimensions of the media.
Understanding the role of the media in a Deliberative Democracy.

Syllabus

1. The relational dimension of human experience.
2. Human experience and communication.
3. Modernity and “field of media”.
4. The concept of “discourse”.
5. The concept of “mediation” and “media coverage”.
6. Discursive strategies of media.
7. Functions of the media in democracy.
8. Civil Society, participation and deliberation.
9. Studying examples (texts and images).

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the UC intended learning outcomes

Conceptual, methodological and critical articulation.

Teaching methodologies

Lectures
Analysis of theoretical texts
Case Study
Oral comments
Writing of texts

Demonstration of the teaching methodologies coherence with the curricular unit's intended learning outcomes

Conceptual, methodological and critical articulation.

Assessment methodologies and evidences

Assessment without final examination, as follows:
50% - Average of small writings
50% - Test

Attendance system

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Bibliography

Christian Fuchs, Foundations of critical media and information studies, Routledge, London, New York, 2011
João Pissarra Esteves, Comunicação e sociedade: os efetios sociais dos meios de comunicação social, Livros Horizonte, 2002
João Pissarra Esteves, O espaço público e os media, Ed. Colibri, Lisboa, 2005
João Pissarra Esteves (org.), Digital divides, CIMJ, Lisboa, 2011
Klaus Bruhn Jensen, A handbook of media and communication research, Routledge, London, New York, 2002
Joshua Meyrowitz, Understandings of Media, Springs, USA, 1999
Joshua Meyrowitz, Power, Pleasure, Patterns. Intersecting Narratives of Media Influence. USA, ICA, 2008
Michel Foucault, A ordem do discurso, Relógio d’Água, Lisboa, 1997
Pierre Bourdieu, O poder simbólico, Perspectiva, 1974
Regis Debray, Introdução à mediologia, Livros Horizonte, Lisboa, 2004
Teun van Dijk, News, Discourse and Ideology

Note: This bibliography will be supplemented with further references.

Observations

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