2023/2024 Media and International Relations

This course invites students to explore the many relations between media and international politics and policy-making. We will discuss the complexity of current challenges, including media freedom, responsibility to its audiences and interlocutors, as well as the manifold strategies adopted by humans exercising their right to free speech. The course offers a mix of current issues, as well as travels to the past and the future. Our cross-cutting themes will be mobility & environment. We will look at the history of media organizations and the changing relationship between technology, politics, and autonomy. We will study relationships between science, reporting, and policy-making. Via guest lectures, students will have the opportunity to gain insight into real-life experience of professionals working in inter-national (and transnational) media organizations. The reading list is based on the many subfields of political science and interdisciplinary approaches to phenomena listed in the syllabus. Course sessions are interactive, the best way to learn is to come to class prepared, submit assignments on time and make constructive contributions to discussions.