Course will be offered in cooperation with University of Lapland.

Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP Media Education

2. degree students of the MDP Teacher Education

3. other degree students of UTA

4. exchange students

By NettiOpsu till 15th October.

Luentosarja "Current Issues of Speech Communication" on kokonaisluentomäärästä 14 tuntia, 2 op ja sillä on vierailevia luennoitsijoita II periodissa.

Current Issues in Speech Communication' is only a part of entire course (14 h). Teaching is in English language on 31.10.-12.12. and this part (2 ECTS) is for exchange students too. Coordinator: Senior Lecturer Tuula-Riitta Välikoski.

By NettiOpsu till 20th September (12 persons).

Ensimmäinen tapaamiskerta pe 8.9. klo 12-14. Tapaamisessa sovitaan kurssin aikataulusta niin, että mahdollisimman moni kiinnostunut voisi kurssille osallistua.

First meeting on Friday, Sep. 8th. Teacher and students will discuss the timetable of the course.

Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP Media Education

2. degree students of the MDP Teacher Education

3. other degree students of UTA

4. exchange students

Students will be accepted to the course in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP Media Education

2. degree students of the MDP Teacher Education

3. other degree students of UTA

4. exchange students

In 2015-16 Russian government and media have been accused of ‘hacking the Western democracy’ and ‘propagating the Kremlin ideas in the West’. Russian broadcasters such as RT have been increasingly influential on global arena, causing ‘a crisis of journalism’ and ‘the arrival of the post-truth era’. The course provides an in-depth analysis of the structure of Russian media, paying special attention to transgressive media strategies such as trolling, hacking, and pirating, as well as considering other forms of subversion such as ‘queer’ media. Students will acquire knowledge about Russian media, society and government and their relationship with the world. Students will conduct their own media projects closely examining Russian media. No knowledge of the Russian language is required to take the course.     

The course will take place as an intensive course. Teaching will take place in the evenings, except on Fridays. 

The course will be taught in English; the course will be taught following the British academic tradition with a lot of focus on discussion, critical thinking and individual work.

No knowledge of the Russian language is required to take this course. Some Russian terms will be introduced and explained by the course leader. Social, political and cultural setting for Russian media will be introduced by the lecturer. Guidance on how to write academic essays in English will be provided.

The course will be beneficial for students with background in Russian Studies, Politics, Communication, Media, Journalism, Intercultural Communication, Visual Studies, and Eastern European Studies; however, students with background in other disciplines are also welcome. 

Vlad Strukov is Associate Professor in Digital Culture in  University of Leeds, UK.

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.

In 2015-16 Russian government and media have been accused of ‘hacking the Western democracy’ and ‘propagating the Kremlin ideas in the West’. Russian broadcasters such as RT have been increasingly influential on global arena, causing ‘a crisis of journalism’ and ‘the arrival of the post-truth era’. The course provides an in-depth analysis of the structure of Russian media, paying special attention to transgressive media strategies such as trolling, hacking, and pirating, as well as considering other forms of subversion such as ‘queer’ media. Students will acquire knowledge about Russian media, society and government and their relationship with the world. Students will conduct their own media projects closely examining Russian media. No knowledge of the Russian language is required to take the course.     

The course will take place as an intensive course. Teaching will take place in the evenings, except on Fridays. 

The course will be taught in English; the course will be taught following the British academic tradition with a lot of focus on discussion, critical thinking and individual work.

No knowledge of the Russian language is required to take this course. Some Russian terms will be introduced and explained by the course leader. Social, political and cultural setting for Russian media will be introduced by the lecturer. Guidance on how to write academic essays in English will be provided.

The course will be beneficial for students with background in Russian Studies, Politics, Communication, Media, Journalism, Intercultural Communication, Visual Studies, and Eastern European Studies; however, students with background in other disciplines are also welcome. 

Vlad Strukov is Associate Professor in Digital Culture in  University of Leeds, UK.

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.

Lectures look at conflicts in the post-Soviet space, including the sources of conflicts, role of “ethnic factor”, nationalism and religion, development of conflicts, contested problems of foreign interventions (legitimization of peacekeeping operation and use of force), peace negotiations, and actual state of play. The course critically evaluates effectiveness of actions of various state and non-state actors participating in the mitigation, settlement, mediation, negotiation, arbitration, management, and resolution of the conflicts. Apart of the introductory lecture devoted to basic theoretical aspects of regional conflicts and methodology for applied analysis of regional conflicts, each succeeding lecture presents a case study of a specific conflict cluster. The main focus in class discussion is the actual peace processes involving various actors and “windows of opportunity” for conflict resolution which can be opened up in the mutual interplay of the actions and approaches of the conflict parties supported by the appropriate policies of international actors. The main goal of the course is to provide students with the methodological framework for applied empirical analysis of the regional conflicts that could fit various contemporary and historical regional conflicts around the world.

Teaching methods

Teaching methods include lectures, class discussions and students’ presentations in seminars. Students will also be required to write short critically reflective learning diary. The case study lectures are given by the guest teachers from the region in focus.

Teaching

II and III Periods 2017/2018 (31.10.2017-25.01.2018)

Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12.00-14.00 (14 hours)

1. Introduction to the course: basic theoretical aspects of regional conflicts, methodology for applied analysis of regional conflicts; main characteristics of the post-Soviet regional conflicts (Vadim Romashov, TAPRI). Tuesday 31.10.2017

2. Ethnic clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks: National and international perspectives (Asel Myrzabekova, Bonn International Center for Conversation/American University of Central Asia). Tuesday 7.11.2017

3. Regional conflicts and history as conflicting resource: Abkhazia and different interpretations of history (Ketevan Gurchiani, Institute of Philosophy, Ilia State University). Thursday 9.11.2017

4. Politics of history, conflict and war in Ukraine (Artem Kharchenko, Politic History Department of National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”/NGO “Center for Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe”). Tuesday 5.12.2017

5. Regional conflicts, peace processes and mediation in Moldova: Transnistria and Gagauzia (Valentina Teosa, Department of International Relations, Moldova State University). Thursday 7.12.2017

6. North Caucasus: Stable instability (Magomed Gizbulaev, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, Dagestan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences). Tuesday 16.1.2018.

7. Karabakh conflict and the current regional affairs (Artur Atanesyan, Faculty of Sociology, Yerevan State University). Thursday 18.1.2018

Seminars:

1. Thursday 16.11.2017 (Vadim Romashov and Ketevan Gurchiani)
2. Thursday 14.12.2017 (Vadim Romashov and Valentina Teosa)
3. Thursday 25.1.2018 (Vadim Romashov and Artur Atanesyan)

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.

By NettiOpsu.

Kurssi on avoin kaikille yliopiston opiskelijoille.
Lectures are free and open to all university students.

Huom! Journalistiikan opiskelija, joka on jo suorittanut JOVTS7:n voi silti osallistua tämän vuoden luentosarjalle. Tällöin suoritus merkitään maisteriopintojen kohtaan JOUJOVTS Vapaavalintaiset journalistiikan erikoistumisopinnot.

Lecture programme:

10.1.2018 Journalistic and cultural agenda in the age of platforms
Jussi Pullinen

17.1.2018 Fake and counter news
Ilmari Hiltunen, Elina Noppari, Jussi Pullinen - University of Tampere

24.1.2018 Digital transformation in local media
Noora Pinjamaa, The Finnish Media Federation / Aalto

31.1.2018 Hybrid media, algorithms and viral events
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen / University of Helsinki

7.2.2018 Community: the crisis in trust and - how can journalists adapt?
Jussi Pullinen

14.2.2018 Tightening privacy and regulation in the EU
Hannu Hallamaa, The Union of Journalists in Finland

21.2.2018 Four scenarios for journalism in the new media landscape
Jussi Pullinen

The course consists of 10 lectures in the class (20 hours), including 3 guest lectures (6 hours). The students will develop a better understanding of how and why mass media play an important instrumental role in influencing Russia’s domestic and foreign relations in a globalized world.

Preliminary programme

• Lecture 1 (2h) Introduction to Russian domestic and foreign new media landscape
• Lecture 2 (2h) The role of mainstream and alternative mass media in Russia
• Lecture 3 (2h) Media legislation and internet governance in Russia
• Lecture 4 (2h) Strategies of agenda-setting for foreign and domestic audience
• Lecture 5 (2h) The evolution of Russian online media
• Lecture 6 (2h) Russian blogosphere and its regulation
• Lecture 7 (2h) Social media and new forms of journalism
• Lecture 8 (2h) Russian strategic online communication during global media events and issues
• Lecture 9 (2h) Russian soft power and the mediated public diplomacy
• Lecture 10 (2h) Information security and digital communication networks

Course assessment includes active participation in the lectures, 10 pages of individual lecture diary, and 10 page of collaborative essays (2-3 students as co-authors).

NettiOpsu.

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.

By NettiOpsu till 15th January (12 persons).

Islamism is one of the most important political ideologies and social movements of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Propagated as a “revival” by its proponents, and labeled as “fundamentalist” by its opponents, it is also often described as “political Islam” or “Islamism.” This course has three main objectives: (1) To understand the historical, socio-economic, political and cultural context in which the Islamicate world has gone through a significant change and has produced Islamist contention. (2) To understand why Islamism is a populist movement, its relationship with Western hegemony over the world, globalization and global political economy, especially its relationship with social classes and economic and political struggles. (3) To understand why and how a jihadist version emerged, that is to say, a version of Islamism which employs violence and terror as a political instrument; the role of globalization and technology in jihadism; the relationship between violence and politics in jihadist ideology.

 Keep in mind that we will not approach Islamism as an isolated, self-contained object, some sort of evil worldview without any social context, or simply and exclusively rooted in the religion of Islam. On the contrary, we will see Islamism as an opportunity to unfold, analyse and discuss a number of social, economic and political problems we have on a global level, from social and economic inequalities to questions of secularism and religion, or the relationship between violence and politics. The main idea of the course is precisely that this is the healthiest way to understand Islamism.   

Requirements:

1. Attendance is required and constitutes the 10% of the overall grade.

2. Verbal participation in class discussion is essential and it is 15% of the grade.

3. Three response papers to be submitted in weeks 4, 7 and 11. A response paper is double-spaced, minimum 7-8 pages response to the reading material. Each is 25% of the overall grade. A couple of simple explanations about “response paper”:

(a)    Your response to the material is not simply stating your opinion (“good” or “bad”) about the reading, nor is it a summary of it, but a discussion of a certain aspect of it (a concept, an article, an issue). Your response paper may include not only the required reading but also the suggested further reading (indeed I strongly encourage you to do so). Example: for your first response paper, you may choose to discuss Edward Said’s idea of “an epistemological and ontological distinction between the West and East, made by Orientalism” (its meaning, its implications, or its criticism!). Or, you may like to discuss the relationship between Islam and colonialism (how colonialism influenced Islam, how Islam responded to colonialism, the long-run implications, etc.)

(b)   Although this is not required, you are also encouraged to bring your own resources to discuss the readings and topics we have covered in class. Keeping with the example of the first response, you may find a criticism of Said and introduce it in order to discuss Said’s argument.

4. Calculation of grades: Attendance: %10

                                                                   Participation: %15

                                                          Response papers: 3x%25

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                                                                   Total: %100

Office Hours: Wednesday 2.00-3.00 pm. You are welcome to ask questions about any aspect of the course and discuss the subject further in the office hours. If the office hour is in conflict with your own individual schedule, please feel free to make an appointment with me.  

Weekly Schedule:

Week 1: Introducing the Course (12 February 2018)

A short introduction to Islam; some history; secularism and religion.   

Week 2: Islam and Colonialism (19 February 2018)

S.V.R. Nasr: “European Colonialism and the Emergence of Modern Muslim States”

F. Fanon: A Dying Colonialism, excerpts.

Week 3: No class (26 February 2018)

Week 4: Orientalism and Colonialism (5 March 2018)

Edward Said: Orientalism, Introduction.

Gayatri Spivak: “Rani of Sirmur” pp. 253-254.

NB: Response paper 1 is submitted in class.

Week 5: Islam, Modernity and Secularism (12 March 2018)

Mahmut Mutman: “Under the Sign of Orientalism”

Jamal Elias: “Early Reformists”

Suggested further reading:

Sayyid Qutb: Milestones, excerpts.

Week 6: Islamism as a Political Movement (19 March 2018)

Sami Zubaida: “Trajectories of Political Islam: Egypt, Iran and Turkey”

Suggested further reading:

Deniz Kandiyoti: “The Travails of the Secular: Puzzle and Paradox in Turkey”

Sami Zubaida: “Islam and Nationalism: Continuities and Contradictions”

Week 7: The Political Economy of Islamism (26 March 2018)

Joel Beinin: “Political Islam and the New Global Economy”

Suggested further reading:

Evren Hosgör: “Islamic Capital/Anatolian Tigers”

Evren Hosgör: “The Question of AKP Hegemony”

NB: Response paper 2 is submitted in class.

Week 8: No class (2 April 2018)

Week 9: Jihadism, Globalisation and Network Theory (9 April 2018)

Faisal Devji: Landscapes of Jihad, excerpts.

Olivier Roy: “Lure of the Death Cult”

Faisal Devji: “ISIS: Haunted by Sovereignty”

Mahmut Mutman: “Islamophobia”

Suggested further reading:

Antoine Bosquet: “Complexity Theory and the War on Terror”

Nafeez Ahmed: “Follow the Oil, Follow the Money”

Week 10: Jihadism, Media and Technology (16 April 2018)

Handout: Religion and Technology

Film: The Clanging of Swords

Jihadist Press. Dabıq

Week 11: No Class (23 April 2018)

Week 12: Jihadism, Politics and Violence (7 May 2018)

Thomas Keenan: “A Language that needs no translation”

Suggested Further Reading:

Nasser Hussain: “The Sound of Terror”

Week 13: Review and Discussion (14 May 2018)

NB: Response paper 3 is submitted in class.

Compensations:

-JOVMS2C Tilat, ruumiit, kanssakäymiset,

-JOVMS2B Media, moderni ja myöhäismoderni

- other compensations to be agreed with the teacher responsible

1st part of the course took place in the autumn period.

The course consists of 10 lectures in the class (20 hours), including 3 guest lectures (6 hours). The students will develop a better understanding of how and why mass media play an important instrumental role in influencing Russia’s domestic and foreign relations in a globalized world.

Preliminary programme

• Lecture 1 (2h) Introduction to Russian domestic and foreign new media landscape
• Lecture 2 (2h) The role of mainstream and alternative mass media in Russia
• Lecture 3 (2h) Media legislation and internet governance in Russia
• Lecture 4 (2h) Strategies of agenda-setting for foreign and domestic audience
• Lecture 5 (2h) The evolution of Russian online media
• Lecture 6 (2h) Russian blogosphere and its regulation
• Lecture 7 (2h) Social media and new forms of journalism
• Lecture 8 (2h) Russian strategic online communication during global media events and issues
• Lecture 9 (2h) Russian soft power and the mediated public diplomacy
• Lecture 10 (2h) Information security and digital communication networks

Course assessment includes active participation in the lectures, 10 pages of individual lecture diary, and 10 page of collaborative essays (2-3 students as co-authors).

NettiOpsu.

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.

Ensimmäisellä tapaamiskerralla sovitaan kurssin aikataulusta niin, että mahdollisimman moni kiinnostunut voisi kurssille osallistua.

Teacher and students will discuss the final timetable of the course at first meeting.

Ensimmäisellä tapaamiskerralla sovitaan kurssin aikataulusta niin, että mahdollisimman moni kiinnostunut voisi kurssille osallistua.

Teacher and students will discuss the final timetable of the course at first meeting.

SOMEJAM Project (5 ECTS) is an intensive weekend event in 13-14 April 2018 with young people, youth workers and students of various fields of study.

The course offers a media educational perspective to the participants in a real youth work at the City of Tampere. Somejam kicks off on Friday evening. Multi-talent teams have time from Friday to Sunday (meetings during daytime) to create new concepts in the form of apps, games or web services for youths with the help of team mentors who are top specialists in new technology.

Get to know the Hackathon better, please see Somejam Tampere 2016:

https://www.somejam.fi/tampere/

Organizing partners: University of Tampere, Verke - the National Center for Digital Youth Work in Finland and Tampere City Youth Service

Enrolment in NettiOpsu

Maximum number of participants: 30

Independent work: The course includes weekly reading and writing excercises. Altogether independent work counts for 117 hours.

Class participation is obligatory.

No lecture on March 28th because of university's Easter Holiday.
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Vaihtoehtoisesta suorituksesta sovittava Kaarina Nikusen (kaarina.nikunen@uta.fi) kanssa syksyllä ennen marraskuun alkua ja keväällä ennen huhtikuuta. 

Alternative studies have to be agreed in the Autumn term before November and in the Spring term before April (kaarina.nikunen@uta.fi). 

On this course, we dissect and discuss on academic papers (1-3 articles per session) on game design research, especially with a focus on game design epistemology, including seminal and relevant papers on other fields of design and design theory. Before each session, there is a preliminary task with a deadline. In order to pass the course, students need to meet the deadlines, participate to the sessions and conduct a literature review on pre-determined subjects at the end of the course.

This course proposes a comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of the phenomenal appeal of ideas of nationalism, conservatism, and patriotism, usually accompanied by strong nostalgic emotional investments. This shift from a post-Cold War normative order based on principles of liberalism to a growing traction of illiberal, inward-oriented and largely anti-globalist ideas affects the whole West, but is particularly meaningful and consequential for Europe understood in a wider sense, as comprising the EU and countries of common EU-Russia neighbourhood. Of course, the nationalist U-turn takes different cultural, societal and political forms – from the resurgence of far-right parties in many of EU member states to the nostalgic Communism in some of post-Soviet countries, and needs fine-tuned contextualization that the course offers. It contains country-based case studies (Russia; Austria, Sweden and Estonia within the EU; Georgia and Ukraine among Eastern Partnership countries) that leave much room for cross-national comparisons and useful generalizations.

Deploying these cases in a broad spectrum of academic schools and approaches (from British cultural studies to cultural semiotics) each one having its merits, I, in the meantime, more specifically focus on biopolitical interpretations of nationalism, conservatism and patriotism both as concepts and practices that are produced, transferred and consumed as parts of never-ending nation-building mostly in Russia but also referring to post-Soviet countries such as Georgia, Estonia and Ukraine.

The biopolitical lens presupposes actualization of ideas developed, in particular, by Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, and their extrapolation onto the current political and cultural developments.

The course will take place as an intensive course during spring term 2018, most likely in April.

Teaching will take place in the evening, except on Friday.

Dr. Alexandra Yatsyk is a Visiting Researcher,  Institute of Social Sciences, Vienna & Uppsala University, Sweden

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.

In the course main ideas of descriptor theory of metaphors (DTM) are considered. Metalanguage of DTM is presented as an instrument of analysis of public opinion and political thinking through mass-media texts. DTM is used for description and analysis of concrete cases, among which understanding of corruption through metaphors of Russian political discourse and political metaphors as a mark of political crises. The course presupposes that students gain skills for analysis of political texts.

Working language of the course will be English. During the course illustrative exercises will be performed by participants. At the end of the course participants will be offered to write an essay on political metaphors and their role in political discourse and political argumentation.

This course has received financial support from VIE-network.

The course is organized in cooperation with Aleksanteri Institute's Russian and East European Master's School.