Did you join or consider to join #DeleteFacebook, #BoycottAmazon, #metoo, #BringBackOurGirls or similar campaigns? Do you agree with the criticism that these are just feel-good actions that require little or no real commitment? And what do you think about the Slow Media movement? More generally, how shall we behave morally in our media-saturated world?
IBCoM students and BA exchange students will be able to dive into these and similar pressing issues we confront in our daily lives. For the first time, students can enroll in a seminar dedicated to “Media, Trust, and Morality” (CM2082) in Term 1.
CM2082 will be taught by visiting scholar Dr. Natalia Roudakova, the author of Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia (2017, Cambridge University Press). This widely acclaimed book is a story of how a “post-truth” society comes into being when all trust in media institutions is lost, replaced by cynicism and disengagement. The book has received numerous awards, including the 2018 Outstanding Book Award of the International Communication Association (ICA), the Journalism Studies Division Book Award of the ICA, and the Frank Luther Mott-KTA Research Award for the best research-based book on journalism/mass communication of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
This is the second time that Dr. Roudakova will be visiting our Department. Last year, her Master course on “Truth and Trust in Journalism” was a big success among students in the Media, Culture and Society programme.