Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course, students will be able to:
- analyse the role of media in post-Soviet political discourse and Russian social life
- explain the language culture of post-Soviet Russia
- discuss and explain Russian online newspapers, magazines, social media and TV channels
- critically assess current research on the media‘s influence on Russian politics and Russian society.
Course Content
The course deals with the phenomenon of “virtual Russia“ as well as the language culture of post-Soviet Russian society. The relationship between post-Soviet political culture and the contemporary virtual world is discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective. The course highlights and analyses the Russian political Internet sphere, Russian social media, the blogosphere and such related concepts as “the political memory“, “information war“, “fake news“ and censorship in the digital age.
Assessment
Forms of Study
Obligatory seminars. Russian and/or Swedish/English are used as the languages of instruction.
Grades
The Swedish grades U–VG.
To achieve the grade of VG for the whole course, students must achieve VG in module 1.
Reporting of grades:
Module 1: Seminars - 5 cr
Module 2: Written paper - 2.5 cr
Prerequisites
- 120 credits in the main field of Russian and either the course Russian V: Contemporary Russian Literature and Culture, 7.5 credits or the course Russian V: The History of the Russian Language: From Birch Bark Letters to Twitter, 7.5 credits at First cycle