Syllabus
Winter 20221 Introduction2 East vs. West and legacy of Communism in the CE Europe3 Czechoslovak Television and Totalitarianism3 Velvet Revolution and the collapse of the Communist media system4 Media ownership after 19895 Struggle over public service broadcasting6 New media and their influence on the Czech journalism7 Tabloidization, alternative media and fake news8 Czech journalists9 Czech audiences10 Czech media landscape developments in comparative perspective11 Final class
Annotation
The course provides general overview of the Czech media landscape and its developments after the regime change in 1989. It situates these developments within context of other Central European countries.
It introduces students to key works that analyze various aspects of post-1989 Czech media. The classes focus on political, economic, cultural and technological factors that shaped the Czech media system and reflects on these developments and on the current state of the system from a comparative perspective.