NettiOpsu
This course enables students to understand and engage effectively with opportunities for entrepreneurial development as professional journalists and managers in the digital media environment, and deals with characteristic requirements and challenges. Prof. Gregory F. Lowe teaches the course, with support from Prof. Ari Heinonen. Students analyse current development in news production and distribution with a focus on the enterprise as a business and critically evaluate the implications. Industry guest lecturers reflect on their experiences and understandings. There is an exam on the readings and lectures, and a team project resulting in a start-up proposal.
The course offers students basic knowledge of post-communist transformation of Russian media and journalism, including new alternative media, and discusses their conflicting roles in contemporary Russia within a global context, including BRICS. The lectures are mainly based on recent international projects funded by Academy of Finland.
Teachers: Emeritus Professor Kaarle Nordenstreng (2h), Visiting Professor Elena Vartanova, Moscow State University (4h), Docent Svetlana Pasti (6h), Researcher Dmitry Yagodin (6h), and Researcher Saara Ratilainen (2h)
In NettiOpsu by 13 February. Max 30 students.
Lectures:
Mon-13-Feb Svetlana Pasti and Kaarle Nordenstreng: Introduction to the course and to Russian media and journalism
Tue-14-Feb Elena Vartanova. Russian media system in the globalized context
Wed-15-Feb Elena Vartanova. Russian media system in the globalized context
Tue-21-Feb Dmitry Yagodin:New media forms and internet governance debate in Russia
Wed-22-Feb Dmitry Yagodin: Russian media coverage of international issues and conflicts
Thu-23-Feb Dmitry Yagodin: Russian soft power and global public diplomacy efforts
Tue-28-Feb Svetlana Pasti: Journalism profession in Russia and BRICS
Wed-1-Mar Svetlana Pasti: Gender and journalism in Russia and BRICS
Thu- 2-Mar Saara Ratilainen:Online lifestyle media and creative networks on the Runet
Fri-3-Mar Study group presentations and discussion moderated by Svetlana Pasti