Face-to-face , second term, 30 hours of theory.

Second term
Friday from 10:45 to 12:45 at 109 Marais 210

Dutch

The general aim of the EU “Analyse van de media-instellingen” is to familiarize students with the national and international media landscape while developing critical skills to analyze the political, economic, cultural and social dimensions of the media environment.

The EU targets the following objectives in particular:
1. provide students with a set of conceptual tools and factual information to understand and analyze national and international media institutions, including their digital and most recent developments;
2. familiarize students with the political, economic, cultural, social and technological logics of the media world;
3. encourage students to follow the news in depth through a regular reading of the press, develop their comprehension and synthesis skills of current information.

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The EU deals with the following topics:
- theoretical foundations of a critical political economy of the media;
- international media companies and conglomerates, their economic logics, the social, cultural and political implications of these different logics (for example in terms of information pluralism);
- the actors of the Internet and new content distribution platforms, their business models, implications for consumers (for example, regarding the collection of personal data);
- the film industry;
- the media landscape in Belgium: groups, brands and logics of the written press, publishers, broadcasters, distributors;
- national and international media policy and regulation;
- knowledge and follow-up of social, political, economic, cultural and media news, through news tests and a press review exercise.

- Interactive lectures with visual support;
- One or more guest lectures by media professionals;
- One or more visits to media institutions or media industry events;
- Class discussions on the most recent media news;
- News tests: on two occasions, students will take a test to assess their knowledge of social, political, economic, cultural and media news. These tests may include short factual questions, multiple choice questions, true / false questions or photos to recognize.
- Press review: the students, divided into small groups (3-4 persons), choose a newsworthy topic that they have to follow for one month in order to write a press review on this topic. Drawing upon a variety of news sources, the press review may offer a synthesis, contextualization, reconstruction of a diachronic process, critical analysis, etc.

The evaluation has three components:
- a written exam on the subjects covered in the lectures, the guest lectures and the excursions (60%)
- two news tests (20%)
- press review (group work) (20%)

- De Bens, E., & Raeymaeckers, K. (2007). De pers in België. Het verhaal van de Belgische dagbladpers. Gisteren, vandaag en morgen. Tielt: Lannoo.
- Herman, E. S., & Chomsky, N. (2008). Manufacturing consent: The political economy of the mass media. The Bodley Head: London.
- Wasko, J., Murdock, G., & Sousa, H. (Eds.). (2011). The handbook of political economy of communications. Malden: Blackwell.

Face to face, second term, 30 hours of theory