Массовые коммуникации и медиа дискурс

Бакалавриат 2021/2022

Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для расширения кругозора и разностороннего развития»

Лучший по критерию «Новизна полученных знаний»

Статус: Курс по выбору (Иностранные языки и межкультурная коммуникация)

Направление: 45.03.02. Лингвистика

Кто читает: Школа иностранных языков

Где читается: Школа иностранных языков

Когда читается: 4-й курс, 1-3 модуль

Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Преподаватели: Нагорная Александра Викторовна

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 6

Контактные часы: 50

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Abstract

Mass Communication generally implies dissemination and exchange of information within large groups of people. This information flow has been considerably facilitated by recent advances in communication technologies. A study conducted by the Zenith Optima has revealed that people spend an average of eight hours a day interacting with the currently available forms of the Mass Media. Their daily ‘media diet’ may include watching a news program on TV, browsing through original content on YouTube, playing video games through Stream, leafing through their favorite magazines, reading e-books, listening to music through Spotify, or enjoying a wide variety of podcasts, often in the ‘media multitasking’ mode. This media exposure has changed not only people’s lifestyle, but the very core of their existence contributing to the emergence of a new type of human being, Homo Informaticus, whose life revolves around producing and consuming information. To paraphrase C. Wright, we now live in a second-hand world: we get and process terabytes of information related to events that are beyond our immediate grasp and are delivered to us through multiple and constantly developing channels. This delivery inevitably involves formatting the original information, imbuing it with certain meanings and making it serve a certain purpose. By doing so, the Mass Media largely form our mental images of the world, shape our outlook and spur us to take certain actions. The main objective of the course is to teach students to approach the media content critically, to be able to deconstruct the media text and detect hidden, ideologically loaded messages. The course is based on the most up-to-date theories, methodologies and explanatory models. It involves working with authentic media materials and using different approaches to their analysis. The students’ progress is mainly assessed through their participation in in-class activities and research projects. To enter the course, you need to have 8 or above as the grade for the Practical Course of the English Language.

Learning Objectives

• to help students form a systemic view of the modern Mass Media, their role and functions in society; • to lay firm theoretic foundations for conducting research in Media Linguistics through teaching specialist terminology and familiarizing students with the most relevant research methods; • to increase media literacy through developing skills of analyzing media products; • to enhance professional discursive skills.

Expected Learning Outcomes

The students are expected to be able to conduct Transitivity Analysis, Mystification Analysis, and Social Actor Analysis. They are supposed to be able to choose the most relevant type of analysis for each particular media text.
The students are expected to have a systemic view of the history of the Mass Media in Great Britain and the USA.
The students are expected to know the scope of Media Linguistics and its methodological principles
The students are supposed to be able to explain the social functions of the media
The students are supposed to conduct comparative Critical Discourse Analysis of media texts from English-medium and Russian-medium sources
The students are supposed to understand the goal and scope of Critical Discourse Analysis
The students should be able to analyze visuals using the principles of Critical Discourse Analysis
The students should be able to conduct newspaper text analysis, discussing the newsworthiness of the event, the news value of the article, the type of news (hard/soft), the features of the headline, the function of the subhead, the type of lead-in, the presence or absence of the inverted pyramid style, the internal logic of the article and the role of the visuals
The students should be able to detect metaphors in discourse and explain their functions
The students should know and be able to explicate the most influential theories of mass communication
The students should know the main types of newspaper text

Course Contents

Media Literacy
Introduction to the Media. The Mass Media in the Modern World. Media in the English-Speaking Countries
Media Linguistics as a Discipline

Assessment Elements

class work
presentation
The ‘presentation’ accumulates all the mini-projects presented in the classroom both individually and in small groups
presentation2
The ‘presentation’ accumulates all the mini-projects presented in the classroom both individually and in small groups
analysis
‘Analysis’ refers to analyzing a media product (newspaper article, news report) with Critical Discourse Analysis tools.
analysis2
‘Analysis’ refers to analyzing a media product (newspaper article, news report) with Critical Discourse Analysis tools.

Interim Assessment

2021/2022 3rd module
0.2 * presentation + 0.2 * analysis2 + 0.2 * analysis + 0.2 * class work + 0.2 * presentation2

Bibliography

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Recommended Additional Bibliography

A2 media studies : the essential introduction, Bennet, P., 2006
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Authors

NAGORNAYA ALEKSANDRA VIKTOROVNA

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