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Terminated in academic year 2016/2017

Persuasion and Manipulation in Journalistic Discourse

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 121-0316/01
Abbreviation PMŽD
Course title Persuasion and Manipulation in Journalistic Discourse
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Economics Journalism
Course coordinator doc. PhDr. Hana Srpová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Persuasion and manipulation - a concept, history
2. A functional approach to persuasion; cognitive theory of persuasion.
3. Psychology of persuasion
4. The influence of ideology
5. Analysis of medial communiqué contents
6. Factors concerning the source of persuasion
7. Factors concerning the contents of communiqué and the way of its presentation
8. Factors concerning the addressee and the contents of persuasion process
9. Means of persuasion and manipulation
10. Persuasive power of the language in a journalistic communiqué
11. Persuasive power of non-verbal means in a journalistic communiqué
12. One-sidedness of verbal means and non-verbal means in news
13. Turning media into the gutter press
14. Defense against persuasion

Literature

MILLS, H. Artful Persuasion. The New Psychology of Influence. New York-Atlanta-
Chicago: Amacom, 2000.

Advised literature

O’KEEFE, D. J. Persuasion. Theory & Research. Thousand Oaks-London-New Delhi:
Sage Publications, 2002.