Master 2024/2025

Big Brother: Understanding Сonspiracy Theories

Type: Elective course (Contemporary Journalism)

Area of studies: Journalism

Delivered by: Institute of Media

Where: Faculty of Creative Industries

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

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.