LFU:online

The students have acquired the ability to use digital communication constellations to judge their individual, organisational and social impact. They have in-depth knowledge of media and communication science in a specific sub-area of the subject.

Exemplary examination of current specialist scientific discourses with
regard to the practical processing of concrete tasks in a selected topic area.

This course focuses on hate speech in news forums and how the media deals with this form of public communication. Freedom of speech is a mandatory prerequisite for democracies.  But with digitalization hate speech on the net has increasingly become a problem. Today, it is part of public communication (discourse) and a challenge for society. The learning objective of this VU is for participants to be able to assess the organizational and societal implications of hate on the net or hate in news forums. Students should gain knowledge about existing measures against hate on the net, such as on the part of politics (e.g. www.nohatespeech.at) and platform operators. The behavior of users (such as counter-speech) will be considered in this context. We will also discuss how realistic the success of these measures is.

Theoretical Input, Reading of specific sources, Presentation, Discussion 

- exercises
- presentation of work results (exercises) in the plenum
- submission of a written paper

Literature will be announced at the beginning of the course.

"Active bachelor's programme"

The minor “Media and Communication” covering 30 ECTS-Credits can be selected by degree students of Bachelor’s programmes at the University of Innsbruck, providing the relevant curriculum allows for the option to pass a minor.