Master
2024/2025
Big Brother: Understanding Сonspiracy Theories
Type:
Elective course (Contemporary Journalism)
Area of studies:
Journalism
Delivered by:
Institute of Media
When:
2 year, 3 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Master’s programme:
Contemporary Journalism
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
24
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The interdisciplinary course Understanding Conspiracy Theories will provide an introduction to conspiracy theories as a historical cognitive style of understanding and explaining reality, a form of everyday knowledge and explanatory model within everyday interaction, a persistent narrative structure of mass culture, a political tool, and a media phenomenon that gives rise to many contemporary media formats.