Political culture and media

Definition of political culture. Responsibility of political, spiritual and knowledge elites for the formation of political culture. Kinds of political culture: parochial, subjugating and participative. Authoritarian governance and political culture. The role of media in authoritarian governance. Democratic governance and political culture. Characteristics of democratic political culture: acceptance of universal values, general political culture respect for personality, guaranteeing individual and collective rights. Means of democratic political culture: dialogue, tolerance, compromise, consensus critique and control. Principles of democratic political culture: ograniceni mandat, ostavka i smena. Three problems of journalist profession objectiveness, neutrality and manipulation. Threats to democratic political culture, spread through media: prejudice and stereotypes, discrimination hate speech and uncritical spread of messages.