Course Code & Number
PSIR 323
Course Title
Media and International Politics
Credit Hours/ ECTS Credits
(3+0+0) 3 TEDU Credits, 6 ECTS Credits
Mode of Delivery:
Face-to-face
Language of Instruction:
English
Pre-requisite / Co-requisite:
Pre-requisites: NONE
Co-requisites: NONE
Catalog Description
The role of media in international relations. Theories of media. Media- power relationship. Media as a means of governments and media as a means to resist governments.
Course Objectives
This course aims to analyze the role of media and its links to and potential effects on International relations. The course is designed to provide the students with a critical evaluation on media-power relationship.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon succesful completion of this course, a student will be able to
1. Design different perspectives about the role of media
2. Describe main media theories, such as the “hypodermic” model, functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interaction, moral-panic theory and postmodern theory
3. Evaluate and question media – power relationship
4. Recite coding, encoding and decoding
5. Critically evaluate the “rally around the flag” syndrome
6. Demonstrate how media can become a means of propaganda and power
7. Reveal how media can become a means to resist (authoritarian) governments
Recommended Reading
1. Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber, Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq (Penguin, 2003).
2. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent (Pantheon, 1988).
3. Denis McQuail, Mass Communication Theory: An Introduction (4th edition, 2000).
4. Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney, The Global Media (2001).
