* Lesson 1. Understanding differences and similarities in Media: Reality, Culture and Media
What is reality?
What affects the lenses we see the world through?
The Russian propagandistic web: How does the word get out?

* Lesson 2. Introduction to media literacy as a practical guideline on how to interact with news stories
What is media literacy?
The Media Literacy index by OSIS.BG
Media Literacy in the EU and Russia: are we well-informed?

* Lesson 3. Media Representations
Levels of Media Analysis
Representations as social constructions of reality

* Lesson 4. Fairclough’s approach to Media Discourse Analysis
The framework of Media Discourse
The role of Power, Ideology, Identities
Linguistic complexities

* Lesson 5. Media stylistics and its theories and concepts
Text World Theory as a tool for research analysis
Foregrounding and backgrounding
Metaphors and other linguistic tropes

* Lesson 6. Media theories and key concepts
Framing theory
Agenda-Setting theory
Disinformation, misinformation, and fake news

* Lesson 7. Tools for (de)constructing political realities in the news
Assessing headlines, leads, and messages: logic and cohesion
The importance of visuals and encrypted messages: case studies

* Lesson 8. Russia’s and EU’s media narratives
Media representation
Russia’s and EU’s narratives in the media
Us and Them: the concept of Russia as an alternative to the West

* Lesson 9. Media statements: distinguishing facts from fiction (and opinions)
How much weight do facts carry in the news? Opinions?
The Rise of Interpretative Journalism
Who are the media identities, and what do they tell us?

* Lesson 10. What does the Web say?
The WEB is a source of research
Russia and the EU

* Lesson 11. Putin’s Rhetoric on the West and its reflection in media
Putin’s speech at the Munich conference in 2017
Putin’s televised speech on February 21, 22
How does the media cover and interpret the words and messages?

* Lesson 12. Russia’s Foreign Agent Law
Who are the victims?
How did they fall into the club?
Investigative journalists’ life: under the constant threat

* Lesson 13. Media polarisation
No end of trouble?