CRISIS COMMUNICATION IN EUROPE
| Title | CRISIS AND RISK COMMUNICATION IN EUROPE / CRISIS COMMUNICATION IN EUROPE |
| Code | EUJ216 |
| Faculty | Social and Economic Sciences |
| School | Journalism and Mass Communications |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate, 2nd / Postgraduate |
| Teaching Period | Spring |
| Coordinator | Nikolaos Panagiotou |
| Common | Yes |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600020919 |
Programme of Study: Master of Arts in Digital Media, Communication and Journalism-R
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| European Journalism | Elective Course belonging to the selected specialization (Elective Specialization Course) | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Digital Media, Culture and Communication | Elective Courses | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Risk Communication and Crisis Journalism | Elective Courses | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Academic Year | 2022 – 2023 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600227698
|
Class Schedule
| Building | |
| Floor | Groundfloor |
| Hall | ΑΙΘΟΥΣΑ 1 (338) |
| Calendar | Tuesday 17:00 to 19:30 |
Type Of Offer
- Disciplinary Course
Course Type 2021
Specialization / Direction
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600227698
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Prerequisites
General Prerequisites
During a crisis, communication is a crucial part of all attempts to handle a perilous situation such as a disaster while at the same time enhances all efforts and actions of managing the consequences of crises and speeding the recovering processes. Similarly risk communication is an indefeasible part of risk management and is closely related to crisis communication. Its purpose is to enable audiences to understand how risks can have an effect to them and their societies. In liberal and democratic societies such as the ones found in Europe, the importance of engaging the community in dealing with a crisis or a disaster is even more important. The proper argumentation in a scientific but easily explicable way can empower the public to have the right sort of input in regulatory process.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Generate new research ideas
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Respect natural environment
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course focuses on the ways media and public, private, or non-governmental organizations communicate about present, emerging, and evolving risks. Combining the methodical engagement with the rich theoretical and case study research literature with a hands-on coverage of current crises and emergencies, the pathway explores the best practices in dealing with peace and war, environment, science, and public health, through strategic communication and crisis management methods to confront disinformation and hate speech.
1. Media trends in Europe.
This topic will provide the participants with an insight on media trends in Europe and how they are going to affect communication and human societies in a range so wide covering from home entertainment to even democratic processes.
2. Crisis Management.
This topic will provide the participants with an overview and an understanding of all aspects of crisis management and its stages. In addition, it will cover how risk and crisis communication plays a detrimental role in planning process, crisis handling and in post-crisis, recovery phase.
3. Risk communication and media.
This topic will provide the participants with an outline on the role and importance of media in engaging and informing audiences in risk communication.
4. Risk communication and cyber-security.
This topic will introduce the participants with the concept of cyber security in risk communication and during risk management. It will analyze potential threats and the importance of computer technology in communication.
5. Risk communication and hybrid threats.
This topic will explain to the participants the nature of hybrid threats and non-linear war, the definition of the grey zone of a conflict and the role of risk communication in preparing societies to increase their resilience to hybrid threats.
6. Risk communication and new media trends.
This topic will deliver to the participants with an insight to new media trends in a fast-changing world and the implications of technologies like metaverse, Augmented reality and virtual reality.
7. Risk communication and Artificial Intelligence.
This topic will cover the existing and potential uses of Artificial intelligence in communication and its application in engaging societies with risk communication by providing tools, patterns and data that were not possible to be employed in the past.
Keywords
Crisis Communication, Risk Management
Educational Material Types
- Slide presentations
- Video lectures
- Podcast
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
- Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
Remote meetings tools (webex),
Presentation software (e.g. power point),
Specialized software in the subjects under study. Additionally, the students use office automation tools, web browsers and e-reader for digital books.
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 30 | ✓ | |||
| Seminars | 10 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Reading Assigment | 80 | ✓ | |||
| Project | 90 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Written assigments | 90 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Total | 300 |
Student Assessment
Description
1. Participation 20% of the final grade. Verbal contributions and participation by all students are essential. It is expected that students do the required readings in advance of classes and participate actively in group discussions.
2. Presentations 20% of the final grade. Each student will be responsible for 1 or more presentations. During the presentation, students present an effective summary of the prescribed subject, offer their insight into its arguments/significance, and direct class discussion on it.
3. Research Paper 60% of the final grade. Students will write a research paper (roughly 5.000 words, incl. references/footnotes). Bibliography will be suggested and if possible be provided by the instructor. Students can discuss and agree with their professor on a specific topic they would like to research/write (sources and bibliography will be provided by the instructor)
Student Assessment methods
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
- Report (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Challenges and Choices for EU 2030, https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/ESPAS_Report.pdf
EU after Covid-19, https://www.epc.eu/en/publications/Future-perspectives-on-EU-solidarity-after-the-COVID-19-crisis-Moving~45e2a0
EU and AI, https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/07/09/europe-and-ai-leading-lagging-behind-or-carving-its-own-way-pub-82236
EU and the AGE OF UNPEACE, https://soundcloud.com/ecfr/sets/the-age-of-unpeace?si=fd500e686dcd47809749cb62d621012c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
EU artificial intelligence, https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/3_Harnessing_artificial_intelligence.pdf
EU climate security diplomacy, https://carnegieeurope.eu/2021/07/12/eu-and-climate-security-toward-ecological-diplomacy-pub-84873
EU Crisis Management, https://intersentia.com/en/eu-crisis-management-after-lisbon.html
EU energy crisis, https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/Brief_2_Energy%20Crisis_web.pdf
EU in the age of permacrisis, https://www.epc.eu/en/Publications/Europe-in-the-age-of-permacrisis~3c8a0c
EU Power Atlas & Challenges, https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/power-atlas.pdf
EU Strategic Foresight Report 2020, https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/strategic_foresight_report_2020_1_0.pdf
EU Strategic Foresight Report 2021,
EU, disinformation and democracy, https://www.epc.eu/en/Publications/Disinformation-and-democracy-The-home-front-in-the-information-war~21c294
EU, fighting disinformation, https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/09/30/eu-s-role-in-fight-against-disinformation-developing-policy-interventions-for-2020s-pub-82821
EU, Security and Crises agendas, https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/6_Protecting_Europe_against_hybrid_threats.pdf
EU’s Global Gateway: Building Connectivity as a Tool, https://www.fiia.fi/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/wp127_the-eus-global-gateway_building-connectivity-as-a-policy_tyyne-karjalainen.pdf
Europe facing Geoeconomics, https://www.fiia.fi/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/europe-facing-geoeconomics.pdf
https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/strategic_foresight_report_2021_en.pdf
https://ecfr.eu/wp-content/uploads/Sovereign-Europe-dangerous-world-Five-agendas-to-protect-Europes-capacity-to-act.pdf
Risk communication and COVID-19 in Europe: lessons for future public health crises, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13669877.2021.1947874
Shaping and securing the EU's Open Strategic Autonomy by 2040 and beyond, https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC125994
The EU in crisis: EU studies in crisis? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13501763.2017.1411384?needAccess=true
The Future of EU crisis and conflict prevention, https://www.iss.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUISSFiles/CP_167_0.pdf
The Palgrave Handbook of EU Crises, 2021, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-51791-5
Why the world needs a universal politics? https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2022/02/03/why-the-world-needs-a-universal-politics/
Last Update
18-12-2023
