Global Media and Conflict

6 credits

This course focuses on the study of international communications and its intersections with world politics in the age of increasing global interdependence. While tracing the evolution of major theories and concepts in the field, we will explore and apply a diverse body of theories to the analysis of past and current problems in world politics, international conflicts, and the flow and contra-flow of global media. During the course, we closely examine how mass communications theories and critical/cultural approaches offer answers to central questions on global media construction of war and conflict.