Course Details

1. Involve with the in-depth exploration and understanding of a journalistic form/type (or more generally of public discourse/representation) through their research and the interpretation of its data, so that they will acquire the necessary experience for further explorations – journalistic or academic
2. Combine and apply knowledge and information from previous research, social science, and journalistic courses, so as to develop the research question and the interpretative-analytic context
3. Analytically involved with the issue of the historical development of mass communication in Cyprus, offering in the process new data, possible interpretations and analytic perspectives on the basis of their research and their interpretation.
4. Develop their skills in relation to articulating, documenting and supporting a position, logically and empirically and in the context of their writing of the research work and its contextualization in a theoretical and historical framework
5. Conduct creatively a research project for the media and interpret the data in terms of a theoretical – analytic model

Choosing a topic/area of study and/or a historical period. Formulation of the question to be explored – possible hypotheses within the framework of existing research

Initial research sample: exploring the availability of primary sources and analyzing initial sample of data.

Developing a theoretical framework. Exploring the broader theoretical literature on the research question – and the related debates.  Reformulation of the initial research question/hypothesis in theoretical terms.

Exploration of the literature on the historical period under study with a focus on the  research issues. Linking of the ongoing research with the existing historical literature and framing the emerging results/patterns in the context of the social history of forms of communication in Cyprus

Analysis of empirical data on the basis of the theoretical categories and in the context of the historical period outlined.

• Το μήνυμα του Μέσου: Η έκρηξη της μαζικής επικοινωνίας [συλλογή κλασικών κειμένων]. Αθήνα. Εκδ. Αλεξάνδρεια. 1989.
• Η κουλτούρα των Μέσων: Μαζική κοινωνία και πολιτιστική Βιομηχανία [συλλογή κλασικών κειμένων]. Αθήνα. Εκδ. Αλεξάνδρεια. 1991.
• Reader with texts on methodology, theory on the areas of research in the department, and samples of work

• Jurgen Habermas. Αλλαγή δομής της δημοσιότητας. Αθήνα. Νήσος. 1997.
• Ανδρέα Σοφοκλέους, Συμβολή στην Ιστορία του κυπριακού τύπου, Intercollege Press, Λευκωσία, 1995
• Νάγια Ρούσου. Τηλεόραση και Τηλεκουλτουρες. Λευκωσία. 2005
• Brian McNair. Η κουλτούρα του Στριπτίζ: σεξ, μέσα ενημέρωσης και ο εκδημοκρατισμός της επιθυμίας. Αθήνα. Σαβαλλας.
• Mary Evans. Φύλο και κοινωνική θεωρία. Αθήνα. Μεταίχμιο. 2004.
• Αντώνης Αστρινακης. Νεανικές Υποκουλτούρες. Αθήνα. Παπαζηση. 1991.

This course is delivered to the students by means of group meeting and individual consultations.  The students are expected to develop a research plan and are evaluated in the process of their work. Their writing is organized in an evolutionary structure so that theoretical and historical issues are introduced as the empirical research progresses so as to have a constant interaction of the two.  

The work must be presented to a group of Lecturers/Professors. This has to do also with the training of the students in presenting and defending their work in Public.