FSS:PMCb1126 Semiauthoritarian Media System - Informace o předmětu

PMCb1126 Media in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes: Perspectives from Asia and the Middle East

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Khin-Wee Chen, PhD. (přednášející)

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Khin-Wee Chen, PhD.
Katedra mediálních studií a žurnalistiky – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Lenka Hrbková, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra mediálních studií a žurnalistiky – Fakulta sociálních studií

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Čt 18:00–19:40 U33

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Anotace

This course examines how media systems function in semiauthoritarian and hybrid political regimes, with a focus on Southeast Asia (SEA) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Rather than treating these regions solely as “cases” to be measured against a Western liberal ideal, the course also runs the comparison in the other direction. It asks whether media-control techniques associated with SEA and the GCC (surveillance, platform governance, media capture, legal repression, and populist communication) are also emerging in Europe, and if so, in what form and to what degree. Students examine the normative assumptions built into mainstream comparative media frameworks, engage postcolonial critiques of area-studies scholarship, and are then asked to test claims of convergence between SEA/GCC and European media systems rather than assume them. The course treats the “mirror” between regions as a working hypothesis and analytical device rather than a foregone conclusion, and equips students to weigh evidence for and against it using the same comparative tools throughout. Regular attendance and active participation in seminar discussion are required components of the course.

Výstupy z učení

At the end of the course, students will be able to: 

1.        Critically evaluate the normative assumptions embedded in mainstream comparative media-systems frameworks (e.g., Hallin & Mancini’s Three Models) and assess their applicability, and their limits, beyond the Western cases from which they were derived.

2.        Analyse media-control techniques in SEA and the GCC (surveillance, platform governance, lawfare, media capture, and populist communication) as governance strategies, evaluating both their sophistication and the constraints on them.

3.        Compare SEA/GCC and European media systems empirically, weighing evidence for and against claims of “convergence” or “authoritarian mirroring,” and identify where the analogy holds, where it breaks down, and why.

4.        Evaluate how media-control techniques circulate (or fail to circulate) across regions, including technology transfer, legal isomorphism, and populist communication strategies, and the political, legal, and institutional factors that enable or block that circulation.

5.        Construct an evidence-based, reflexive argument about whether and how the course has changed their understanding of their own national media environment, while explicitly addressing the limits of the “mirror” analogy as an analytical tool.

Klíčová témata

Week	Theme
2	The Myth of the "Liberal Model"
3	Orientalism and the Cartography of "Cases"
4	The False Binary – Beyond "Democratic" vs. "Authoritarian"
5	Digital Authoritarianism as R&D
6	Media Capture and the Oligarchic-Populist Axis
7	Lawfare – The Weaponization of Law
8	Reading Week (Mid-Semester Break – No Lecture)
9	The Roadmap to Regression – How Europe is Catching Up
10	Prognosis and Synthesis – The Student as the Site of Decolonization
11	Course Wrap-Up and Presentation Preparation
12–13	Student Presentations

Přístupy, postupy a metody používané ve výuce

Most 90-minute sessions follow a three-part structure: a Passport Activity, student-led teaching and discussion of that week’s primary reading, and a closing lecturer synthesis drawing in the supplementary (optional) readings. Sessions without an assigned primary reading, and the Final Presentation weeks, follow a different format suited to their purpose.

•         Minutes 0–30: Passport Activity. Students familiarise themselves with that week’s assigned country or countries (images, sound, cultural and media facts, location).

•         Minutes 30–60: Student-led teaching. The week’s assigned team reads and summarises the primary assigned reading and leads class discussion.

•         Minutes 60–90: Lecturer synthesis. The lecturer synthesises the discussion and the primary reading together with the supplementary (optional) readings.

Způsob ověření výstupů z učení a požadavky na ukončení

Component	Weight	Format	Due
Comparative Case Study Report (individual)	30%	Word document (.docx)	Sun 8 Nov 2026, 11:59pm (end of Week 8)
Group Policy Proposal: Outline (group)	5%	Google Forms	Wed 18 Nov 2026, 11:59pm (Week 10)
Final Presentation (group)	15%	PowerPoint	Uploaded by Wed 2 Dec 2026, 11:59pm (Week 12)
Peer Teaching (group)	20%	PowerPoint	Wed 11:59pm, week before assigned slot
Reflections x5 (individual)	10%	Google Forms	Sun 29 Nov 2026, 11:59pm (Week 11)
Passport Project (group)	5%	Google Slides (template provided)	Wed 11:59pm, weekly
Peer Evaluation x2 (individual)	10%	Google Forms	In class, end of your group’s presentation slot
Attendance (best 10 of 12)	5%	Information System	Every session (12 total)
Total	100%

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