Магистратура
2025/2026
Социальная история медиа
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Современные медиаисследования и аналитика/ Contemporary Media Research)
Кто читает:
Институт медиа
Где читается:
Факультет креативных индустрий
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 3 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
32
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course examines the historical development of media, from early forms of written and printed communication to contemporary digital platforms, situating these developments within their broader social, political and cultural contexts. Students will explore how successive media technologies and institutions have shaped, and been shaped by, the societies in which they emerged, and will develop the analytical tools needed to interpret present-day media phenomena as part of a longer historical trajectory.
Learning Objectives
- To introduce the historical evolution of media technologies and institutions, from the early print era to contemporary digital platforms
- To examine the social, political and cultural forces that have shaped the development of media systems across different periods and societies
- To develop students' ability to analyze contemporary media phenomena through historical and comparative perspectives
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Traces the historical development of key media technologies and institutions across different societies and periods
- Explains how social, economic and political factors have shaped the emergence and transformation of media systems
- Analyzes contemporary media phenomena by drawing on historical and comparative frameworks
Course Contents
- Media and Society Before Mass Communication
- The Rise of Mass Media
- Electronic Media and the Transformation of Public Life
- Media, Power and Ideology in the 20th Century
- From Broadcast to Network: The Digital Transformation of Media
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 3rd module0.4 * Written paper + 0.5 * Group presentation + 0.1 * Seminar activity
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- A history of communications : media and society from the evolution of speech to the Internet, Poe, M. T., 2011
- Saving the world : a brief history of communication for development and social change, McAnany, E. G., 2012
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Crisis and critique : a brief history of media participation in times of crisis, Kaun, A., 2016