Магистратура
2024/2025
Медиа и религия
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Критические медиаисследования / Critical media studies)
Направление:
42.04.05. Медиакоммуникации
Кто читает:
Институт медиа
Где читается:
Факультет креативных индустрий
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 4 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Преподаватели:
Хруль Виктор Михайлович
Прогр. обучения:
Критические медиаисследования
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course is designed to introduce the complexity of religious life in general and importance of the correct covering of this very sensitive object. Essential part of the course is focused on particular issues of contemporary Russian society, secularization and de-secularization processes (Casanova, Taylor, Hoover), mass media role in discovering and neutralizing the tensions between religious groups and society.
The critical perspective is focused both on religion and media as a social institutions in the theoretical frame of dialogue and consensus in the public sphere (Habermas).
Learning Objectives
- To get acquainted with historical and theoretical aspects of relations between religion and mass media
- To consider the processes of secularization and desecularization, specifics of Russian religious life and activities of religious institutions
- To study legal and ethical norms and principles of coverage of religious life in mass media
- To master skills of analysis of religious sphere and religious segment of mass consciousness
Expected Learning Outcomes
- differentiate historical and theoretical aspects of the relations between religion and media;
- follow legal and ethical norms and principles of covering religious life in media;
- obtain sufficient skills for oral presentations and class discussions;
- conduct a research in the field of "religion-media" relations (case-study, content-analysis, comparative study);
- write an analytical essay on the contemporary religion situation in Russia.
Course Contents
- Theoretical foundations for the study of media and religion.
- Mediatization of religion: the concept and its operationalization
- Religion, faith, identity in Russian mass communication
- Legal aspects of coverage of religious life in Russian media
- Ethical aspects of interaction between media and religion
- Religious ethos and journalistic ethics
- Religious initiatives to regulate the Russian media
- Structural-semantic and functional aspects of Russian media texts about religion
- Genre features of coverage of religious life in the Russian media
- Linguistic and functional specificity of Russian media texts on religious topics
- Dysfunctional manifestations in the coverage of religious life in the Russian media
- Media-religious communication crises and ways to overcome them
- Humor in media texts about religion as a conflict factor
- Formation and expression of religious identity on the Internet
- Religious topics in social networks
- Optimization of interaction between religion and media: teleological foundations and normative models
- Basic principles for constructing a normative model of interaction between religion and the media in the space of public dialogue
Assessment Elements
- Final essayComments that could make any person feel uncomfortable, like • remarks showing a lack of respect for the feelings, beliefs, and remarks of others; • remarks that disparage any person or group on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, religion, social class, or sexual orientation will not be tolerated.
- HomeworkA research plan of certain problem or case of media-religion relations.
- Seminar activities, case discussions.
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 4th module0.5 * Final essay + 0.3 * Homework + 0.2 * Seminar activities, case discussions.
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- The Routledge encyclopedia of religion, communication, and media, , 2010
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Eldridge, J. (2003). Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture (Book). Studies in World Christianity, 9(1), 127–128. https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2003.9.1.127