PRESSFREEDOM IN A WORLD OF CENSORSHIP:
CURRICULUM
Howard Tumber and Jerry Palmer. Media at War, the Iraq Crisis. 188 pp
Jansen, Sue C. : Censorship: the knot that binds power and knowledge, 1. New Yor991. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 280 pp.
Salminen, E. : The silenced media: the propaganda war between Russia and the west in Northern Europe, 1999. Macmillan: Houndmills. 198 pp..
Orwell, G. : Nineteen Eighty-Four. With a critical introduction and annotations by Bernard Crick, 1984. Oxford: Clarendon. Optional.
Compendium:
Be aware that this compendium is the same as used in MEVIT4217 - Discourses of censorship (spring 04), and can be bought at Akademika.
3. Splichal, Slavko. 2002. Principles of publicity and press freedom. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield: Chapter 1: In search of the roots: deconstructing the institution of freedom of the press. Pp. 1-34.
4. Drager, R, & D. L. Dickerson. 1999. Freedom of expression in the 21st century. Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge Press: Chapter two: Who controls expression? Pp 31-74
5. Mühle, E. (ed) 1997. Vom Instrument der Partei zur “vierten Gewalt”. Die ostmitteleurop?ische presse als zeithistorische Quelle. Tagungen zur Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung.
4. Marburg: Verlag Herder-Institut: Vihalemm, Peeter, M. Lauristin. Political Control and Ideological Canonisation. The Estonian Press during the Soviet Perid. Pp 103-109.
6. Lauk, Epp. 1999. Practice of Soviet Censorship in the Press. The Case of Estonia. Nordicom Information, Vol 21, no 3, 27-39.
7. Cooper, Thomas W. (ed). 1989. Communication ethics and global change. New York: Longman: Tepljuk, V.M. The Soviet Union: Professional Responsibility in Mass Media. Pp 109-123.
8. Lendvai, Paul. 1981. The Bureaucracy of Truth. How Communist Governments Manage the News. Burnett Books – London: Part I, chapter 1. The Party’s Sharpest Weapon. Pp 17-52 Chapter 2. What is Newsworthy – and What is Not? Pp. 53-94.
9. Propaganda. Ed. By Robert Jackall. 1994. New York Univ press. NY. Zeman, Z.A.B. The State and Propaganda. Pp 174-189. Doob, L. W. Goebbels’ Principles of Propaganda. Pp 190-216.
10. Democracy and the Media. A Comparative Perspective. 2000. Ed. By Richard Gunther & Anthony Mughan. Cambridge Univ Press. Chapter 2: The Media and Politics in Spain: From Dictatorship to Democracy. Pp 28-51. Chapter 4: Democratic Transformation and the Mass Media in Hungary: From Stalinism to Democratic Consolidation. Pp 122-164
Total ca 760 pp
An additional 3-400 pages may be added to the curriculum at a later date. The students may select a total of 8-900 page curriculum from the original curriculum and later additions.