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Lehrende/r: Eva Schweitzer
Veranstaltungsart:
Übung
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
Taking Sides
Unterrichtssprache:
Deutsch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
1 | 35
Anmeldegruppe: Magister-Übungen Themenfeld 1-7
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Mod.
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Kontingentschema: Magister Übungen: Themenfeld 1-7
ACHTUNG: BITTE GEBEN SIE BEIM RANKING WERTE FÜR ALLE/DIE MEISTEN ÜBUNGEN AN, DA SIE SONST NIEDRIGERE CHANCEN HABEN, EINEN ÜBUNGSPLATZ ZU ERHALTEN!
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Requirements for qualified participation: regular attendance, engagement in plenary discussions, oral presentation, written coursework.
Inhalt:
"Television viewing leads to obesity", "Negative campaigning turns voters off", and "Sex sells" - these and other headlines are often used in popular magazines to capture some of the presumed influences of the mass media on society. For the main part, these evaluations are rooted in long-held beliefs and so-called truisms about the nature of human communication that have evolved over time to cope with the ever-increasing number of mass-mediated activities. This sort of conventional wisdom, though, is not always substantiated by social science research. In fact, due to the ubiquity and obtrusiveness of the mass media, journalists, politicians, and average people tend to make up their own mind about the current state of public communication. Quite regularly, this happens irrespective of conflicting empirical evidence. In this class, we will therefore take a closer look at the knowledge that scholars have accumulated in the past on controversial issues from fields such as advertising, journalism studies, political communication, and media psychology to determine whether laypersons' perceptions of these public matters are in essence right or wrong. In this way, participants shall learn how to review and critically evaluate the state of the art in a given area of inquiry, how to take a stand in those controversies, and how to build a solid and fact-based argument in their own scientific endeavors. This class will be held throughout in English. Students are therefore required to deliver their plenary remarks as well as their oral presentations and their courseworks in this language. The final grades, however, will not reflect the degree of individual proficiency.
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