Master 2024/2025

Big Brother: Understanding Сonspiracy Theories

Type: Elective course (Contemporary Journalism)

Area of studies: Journalism

Delivered by: Institute of Media

Where: Faculty of Creative Industries

When: 2 year, 3 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Стахеев Илья Сергеевич

Master’s programme: Contemporary Journalism

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The interdisciplinary course Understanding Conspiracy Theories will provide an introduction to conspiracy theories as a historical cognitive style of understanding and explaining reality, a form of everyday knowledge and explanatory model within everyday interaction, a persistent narrative structure of mass culture, a political tool, and a media phenomenon that gives rise to many contemporary media formats.

Learning Objectives

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Expected Learning Outcomes

• A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields

Course Contents

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Assessment Elements

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Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 3rd module
  0.5 * - + 0.5 * -

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• A handbook of journalism : media in the information age, , 2018
• Beyond journalism, Deuze, M., 2020

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Challenging the news : the journalism of alternative and community media, Forde, S., 2011

Authors

• Uvarov Fedor Maksimovich