Master's Programme in Critical Media Studies

2 years

Full-time programme

200 000 –
400 000 RUB/year

Tuition Fee in 2024

Russian government and HSE scholarships and tuition fee waivers available

ENG

Instruction in English

State Accreditation

Independent Quality Assessment

Critical Media Studies. Programme Introduction

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Faculty

Iliya Kiriya
Academic supervisor ‘Critical Media Studies’ Master’s prorgamme, Member of HSE Academic Council, Deputy Dean of Faculty of Creative Industries, Professor of Institute of Media

Received a PhD from the Stendhal University, Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in Journalism at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Prior the academic career he worked as a journalist in BBC MPM project. Author of the article «New and old institutions within the Russian media system».

Panos Kompatsiaris
Associate professor of Institute of Media Faculty of Creative Industries

Panos Kompatsiaris received an Mphil in Visual Culture (2010) and a PhD in Art Theory (2015) from the University of Edinburgh. He has published articles in journals and collective volumes on art biennials, work and artistic labour in the creative industries, representations of working class and ethnic minorities in film, art and populism, celebrity activism and monster theory. He is the author of The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials: Spectacles of Critique, Art and Theory (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor of the volume The Industrialization of Creativity and its Limits (Springer, 2020) and the Special Issue 'Crafting Values: Economies, Ethics and Aesthetics of Artistic Valuation' (Journal of Cultural Economy). He is currently working towards a monograph on curating in media economies.

Yiannis Mylonas
Associate professor of Institute of Media Faculty of Creative Industries

Yiannis Mylonas received a Master's degree from the University of Bath, and a PhD from the University of Copenhagen. Prior to his employment at the HSE School of Media, he has worked as post-doctoral researcher at the Media and Communications Department of Lund University in Sweden, and has taught at Copenhagen University and at Lund University. He has published peer reviewed articles and book chapters on issues related to discourse and frame analysis of news media representations of war and economic crisis emphasizing on media constructions of “otherness”, historical memory and social media, the political economy of copyrights, civic cultures, and political subjectivity, among others. He is the author of the book «The “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics» (2019, Brill).

Olga Baysha
Associate professor of Institute of Media Faculty of Creative Industries

Olga Baysha earned her MS in Journalism from Colorado State University and PhD in Communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Previously, she worked as a news reporter and editor in Kharkiv, Ukraine, then as an editor-in-chief of a documentary production company in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her research centers mainly on political and cultural aspects of globalization with an emphasis on new media and global social movements for justice and democratization. Dr. Baysha is especially interested in analyzing inherent anti-democratic tendencies of the discourses of Westernization employed by post-Soviet social movements. Dr. Baysha is the author of two monographs: "The Mythologies of Capitalism and the End of the Soviet Project" (2014) and "Miscommunicating Social Change: Lessons from Russia and Ukraine" (2018). Her research has also appeared in such leading international journals as Critical Discourse Studies, European Journal of Cultural Studies, International Communication Gazette, International Journal of Communication, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, etc.

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‘Administrators Must Create a Real University that Works for Each and Every Student’

Nikita Anisimov was appointed Rector of HSE University two years ago. In his interview with Ernest Mackevičius, Director of the HSE University Institute of Media, journalist, and television presenter, the HSE rector talks about how he came to the university, its achievements and development plans, and how to tell the difference between AI-produced and human texts.

August 31, 2023

‘I Believe in Having a Career that Focuses on Solving Both Academic and Industrial Problems’

Mutiu Iyanda Lasisi is a first-year master’s student of Critical Media Studies at the Faculty of Creative Industries. He chose to pursue his master’s at HSE University out of a desire to combine theory and practice and to create real solutions. Mutiu spoke to the HSE News Service about why HSE University was the right place to realise his ambitions, how theory shapes learning into frameworks for action, and how he has already put his knowledge to real-world use.

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June 28, 2023

‘Every Experience Is New to Me’

Trang Ly is a 25-year-old master’s student from Vietnam. In addition to her studies on the Critical Media Studies programme at HSE University-Moscow, she works as a composer and contributes to the Life in Moscow series on the university’s website. In her interview, she talks about the unusual events she has helped organise, the many opportunities available to foreign students at HSE, and much more.

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June 06, 2023

Students of Critical Media Studies Carry out Research on Monsters and Horror

Traditionally, humans have imagined monsters as the exact opposite of themselves: huge, violent, or invisible and soulless beasts. This is apparent in many examples in cinema. However, the image of monsters on the screen transforms with time. A group of Critical Media Studies master’s students organised an event covering the topic of how this transformation takes place at the ‘Playing with Fear: New Image of Monsters in Horror Films’ round table on December 10th.

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December 19, 2022

Vedomosti Becomes Industrial Partner of the HSE Institute of Media

HSE University and the business daily Vedomosti (Business News Media JSC) have signed a cooperation agreement within the framework of the Contemporary Journalism Master's programme. Students from the HSE Institute of Media will complete internships in the editorial office of Vedomosti. They will also study ‘Business Journalism Formats’, a course which will help consolidate their knowledge on the genres and formats of modern economic media.

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November 29, 2022

HSE University and National Media Group Sign Cooperation Agreement

HSE University and National Media Group—Russia’s largest private media holding—have agreed to jointly implement the Master’s in Media Management run by the university’s Institute of Media. The collaboration involves the joint development of courses for the Master’s programme and the provision of internships for students.

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October 05, 2022

American Professor Speaks with HSE Students Online about Media Imperialism

American professor Oliver Boyd-Barrett, author of the book Media Imperialism, one of the biggest studies of the contemporary media landscape, is among the international teachers recruited to deliver remote instruction at HSE University this year. His research interests include media, propaganda and international news agencies.

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March 11, 2021

«The Olympiad is a good chance to understand what you need». The winner of the last year competition shares his experience and gives some useful tips

Dmitry Muraviev is a student of the Critical Media Studies Master’s Programme. One year ago he achieved the highest score in the HSE Olympiad «Highest League». Now Dmitry is ready to share a couple of lifehacks considering the preparation for those who would like to participate in the 2021 competition.

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February 12, 2021

New book edited by professors from Critical Media Studies

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November 26, 2020

Strategic communications in Russia: a book with articles by the lecturers of the Department of Integrated Communications has been published.

In September 2020, the American publishing house Taylor and Francis published a book “Strategic Communications in Russia: Public Relations and Advertising”, which was co-authored by the lecturers at the Department of Integrated Communications.

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Iliya Kiriya Academic supervisor ‘Critical Media Studies’ Master’s prorgamme, Member of HSE Academic Council, Deputy Dean of Faculty of Creative Industries, Professor of Institute of Media

Panos Kompatsiaris Associate professor of Institute of Media Faculty of Creative Industries

Yiannis Mylonas Associate professor of Institute of Media Faculty of Creative Industries

Olga Baysha Associate professor of Institute of Media Faculty of Creative Industries

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Academic supervisor ‘Critical Media Studies’ Master’s prorgamme, Member of HSE Academic Council, Deputy Dean of Faculty of Creative Industries, Professor of Institute of Media

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Yiannis Mylonas
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Olga Baysha
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