The lectures and exercises of the course aim at developing a theoretical and methodological basis for a comparative analysis of public service media worldwide. The lectures will focus on description and analysis of public service broadcasting in the Nordic countries; history and development, structure & remit, organization, funding, programming and production, construction of audiences, performance. This kind of broadcasting oriented view is then contrasted and discussed in relation to the new identity of public service broadcasting as public service media. Through student work in the course the lectures are complemented by a comparative European and global view. The main assignment for the students is to produce basic comparative data from their respective countries of origin by making use of the analytic scheme of the lectures. The web pages of broadcasters and similar Internet sources will be used as main measures to collect the needed information for student work. The students will also be instructed shortly for the use of electronic sources of the Tampere University Library.

Lectures and Exercises (2 ECTS), Working Paper (3 ECTS)

NettiOpsu.

Tämä kurssi käy suoritukseksi sekä aineopintoihin että journalistiikan syventäviin opintoihin kohtaan JOVTS2JB.

Objective of the course is to enable students to understand processes of globalization, media convergence and the transformation from the industrial to the information society, in particular the role of the Internet as the basic infrastructure for global information society with its political, legal, economic, social and cultural implications. The course covers a range of issues, which have been negotiated in the process of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

NettiOpsun kautta.

Lectures 2 ECTS, the other 3 ECTS are derived from readings and an essay on the readings and lecture material.

Short lecture course gives an overview of the media in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa which form a new coalition of raising economies known as "BRICS". The lectures are based on research project "Media systems in flux: The challenge of the BRICS countries" (http://uta.fi/cmt/tutkimus/BRICS.html).

NettiOpsu (max. 40 students)

Kaarle Nordenstreng: Introduction to BRICS
Leonardo Custodio: Media landscapes in BRICS countries
Svetlana Pasti: Media and journalists in Russia
Svetlana Pasti: Media and journalists in India and South Africa
Jari Väliverronen: Media in China
Kaarle Nordenstreng: De-Westernization of Media Studies
Discussion

This course is suitable for JOVA8 and JOVTS2JB.

Objective of the course is to enable students to understand processes of globalization, media convergence and the transformation from the industrial to the information society, in particular the role of the Internet as the basic infrastructure for global information society with its political, legal, economic, social and cultural implications. The course covers a range of issues, which have been negotiated in the process of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

NettiOpsun kautta.

Tämä kurssi käy suoritukseksi sekä aineopintoihin että journalistiikan syventäviin opintoihin kohtaan JOVTS2JB.

The course provides an insight into the phenomenon of virtualization of politics. During the course, the student gets acquainted with the interrelation between Post-Soviet political culture and the contemporary virtual world from an interdisciplinary perspective. The students familiarize themselves with the Russian political Internet, Russian social media, the blogosphere, and online memory wars.

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