Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
4 credits
22.5 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Antoine Frédéric;
Language
French
Prerequisites
The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Main themes
The course will :
- analyze the socioeconomic, sociopolitical and sociocultural logics in action in the media sphere.
- register them in a transhistorique, analytical and forward-looking perspective.
- centre the media in their sociopolitical environment.
- study the external socioeconomic structures of the media (structures of properties, crossed interests, concentration phenomena and internationalization).
- analyze the main actors (world, regional groups, European and Belgian actors).
- study the socioeconomic internal structures of the media (economic logics of costs and revenues, public aids, evaluation of the demand).
- put in perspective the strategies of development of the media.
- to show the students the concrete reality of medias existing in Belgium.
- give the students the necessary general knowledge which will allow them to understand and interpret the events of news arising in world media.
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1. | Discern the economic, social, political and media logics that are dominant in mass media acting in the current world and able to criticize them in a analytical, critical, historic and forward-looking. |
| 2. | Understand the socioeconomic, sociopolitical and sociocultural ways of action of these medias, so much macro point of view as a micro point of view. |
| 3. | Show knowledge of the concepts, the tools and the data allowing him to realize this approach. |
| 4. | Discern the main actors in presence in the media sphere and estimate their strategies. |
| 5. | Perceive the specificities of the public and private media, the constraints, the liberties and the ways of control with which they are confronted. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Faculty or entity
ESPO
