MEDIA, WAR AND PEACE (4 Credits)

Learning outcomes:

On successful completion of this Course, students will be able to: Discuss the performance and role of media in the time of war and peace; Discover the key concepts of media’s roles and influences in global war and peace; Utilize the key concepts of media’s roles and the impact of media coverage into the global war and peace case study; Criticize the media’s roles and the impact of media coverage in global war and peace case study.

Topics:

1. Introduction to media, war and peace;
2. Propaganda and the news in a time of terror;
3. Media marginalization and the antiwar movement;
4. Public rationality, political elitism, and opposition to war;
5. Media, globalization, and violence views from around the world media independent;
6. Media effects on public opinion: propaganda, indoctrination, and mass resistance;
7. Propaganda, celebrity gossip, and the decline of news;
8. Iraq and the politics of media deference;
9. Worth and unworthy victims: the politicization of genocide and human right in U.S. Foreign policy;
10. Iran, nuclear weapons, and the politics of fear;
11. Journalistic norms and propaganda Iraq and the war on terror;
12. Impacts of alternative media;
13. Postscript: media coverage in the age of Obama.