Critical Issues of Communication and Media

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures follow a seminar regime. Seminars will take place from the exposure of the syllabus and the discussion of the texts relevant to the study of the subjects, previously worked by the students. The active participation of students in seminaries also presupposes the presentation and discussion in class of their work as components of the evaluation.

Learning Outcomes

Acquire skills in systematic exploration of regulatory and explanatory questions about communication and media, from the reading and discussion of representative authors of the contemporary social theory;

Develop, through practical examples, capabilities in questioning the place of the media in society, the impact of society on the media and the complexity of these relationships;

Enable learning and the use of basic tools of academic research.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Theme 1. Marxism, political economy and media

Theme 2. Cultural Studies

Theme 3. Ideology and representation: perspectives from cultural studies

Theme 4. Frankfurt School: Critical Theory and Society

Theme 5. Moral panic and media culture

Theme 6. Michel Foucault: critique and discourse

Theme 7. Post-structuralism, discourse and communication

Theme 8. Communication and human rights

Theme 9. Cyberculture.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria João Rosa Cruz Silveirinha

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 15.0%
Synthesis work: 30.0%
Research work: 55.0%

Bibliography

Best, S. (1995). The Politics of Historical Vision: Marx, Foucault, Habermas, New York, London: The Guilford Press.

Cohen, S. (1972). Folk Devils and Moral Panics, London, New York: Routledge.

Curran, J. e Gurevitch, M. (1991). [eds.] Mass Media and Society, London: Edward Arnold.

Durham, M. e Kellner, D. (2006). [eds.] Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Esteves, J. P. (2008). [eds.] Comunicação e Identidades Sociais, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte.

Gauntlett, D. (2002). Media, Gender and Identity, London: Routledge.

Hesmondhalgh, D. e Toynbee, J. (2008). The Media and Social Theory, New York: Routledge.

Lister et al. (2003). New Media: A Critical Introduction, 2.º ed., London, New York: Routledge.

Mattelart, A. e Neveu, É. (2004). Introducción a los Estudios Culturales, Barcelona: Paidós.

Simões, R. B. (2011). Crime, Castigo e Género nas Sociedades Mediatizadas: Políticas de (In)justiça nos Discurso dos Media, Tese de Doutoramento.