The main purpose of this course is to reveal the different approaches to political communication. In this context, the topics such as; the relationship between media and political systems, media and democracy, media and freedom of speech; how media shapes politics; development of political communication in academia, are analyzed in detail.
This course provides the mainstream and critical approaches to political communication. The major concepts such as propaganda, agitation, political campaigns, political economy and ethics will be examined within the given political systems.
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Course Learning Outcomes
| Learning Outcomes |
Program Learning outcomes
|
Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
| 1) Know ideology and political systems. | 1,2,3,5 | 1,2,3, 4 | A, B, C |
| 2) Realize that ideologies and political systems have some effects on mass media and its products. | 1,6,10 | 1,2,3, 4 | A, B, C |
| 3) Discuss mass media and its products in context of main stream and alternative media / commercial and public broadcasting, and political systems. | 1,2,3,13 | 1,2,3, 4 | A, B, C |
| 4) Analyze mass media and its products in context of changing media politics, ethic rules and acts. | 5, 6, 13 | 1,2,3, 4 | A, B, C |
| 5) Distinguish how the concepts like technologic development, inovation, efficiency have different meanings out of the different political systems. | 1,2,3, 10,11,13 | 1,2,3, 4 | A, B, C |
Course Flow
| COURSE CONTENT | ||
| Week | Topics | Study Materials |
| 1 | Different approaches to political communication. | Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
| 2 | The concept of ideology. | Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
| 3 |
Contemporary political systems. |
Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
| 4 | Media and Democracy. | Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
| 5 | Media, ideology and discource. | Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
| 6 | Globalization and media. | Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
| 7 | Audience commodity | Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
| 8 | Media and objectivity | Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
| 9 | Midterm exam | Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
| 10 | Media and public opinion | Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
| 11 | Media and politics | Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
| 12 | News and discourse | Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
| 13 | New media, public sphere and democracy. | Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
| 14 | Alternative media and civic journalism. | Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
| 15 | Entertainment industry and media | Reading related an article or book from the reading list |
Recommended Sources
| RECOMMENDED SOURCES | |
| Textbook | |
| Additional Resources |
Brain Mc Nair (2003). An Introduction to Political Communication. Routledge, London.
Terry Eagleton (1991). Ideology. An Introduction. University of Minessota Press. London. Lyman Tower Sargent. (2009). Contemporary Political Ideologies. Wadsworth. USA Herbert Schiller. (1976). Communication and Cultural Domination. Sharpe. Winfried Schulz. (2001). “Changes in Mass Media and the Public Sphere”. (ed.) Slavko Splichal, Public Opinion and Democracy. Hammpton Press. New Jersey. John Keane. (1991). The Media and Democracy. Polity Press. Hamid Mowlana. (1985). International Flows of Information: A Global Report and Analysis. Unesco. Paris. Carroll J. Glynn vd. (1995). “Opinions, Perception and Social Reality”. (der.) T.L. Glasser, C.T. Salmon, Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent. The Guilford Press. NY. Jay Blumler and Michel Gurevitch. ( 2000). “Rethinking the Study of Political Communication”. James Curran - Michael Gurevitch. Mass Media and Society. Edward Arnold, London. Thomas Meyer. (2002). Medya Demokrasisi, Medya Siyaseti Nasıl Sömürgeleştirir? İş Bankası Yayınları. İstanbul. Schudson, Michael. (1998). “The Public Journalism Movement and Its Problems”, The Politics of News The News of Politics, Doris Graber, Denis McQuail ve Pippa Norris (ed.) içinde, USA: Congressional Quarterly Inc. Schaffer, Jan. (2000). “Civic Journalism”. National Civic Review, vol:89, No:3, Fall 2000. |
Material Sharing
| MATERIAL SHARING | |
| Documents | |
| Assignments | Selecting one of the topics in schedule and writing an article. |
| Exams | |
Assessment
| ASSESSMENT | ||
| IN-TERM STUDIES | NUMBER | PERCENTAGE |
| Participation and short assignments | 20 | 30 |
| Weekly readings | 15 | 30 |
| Final (article) | 1 | 40 |
| Total | 36 | 100 |
| CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE | 40 | 40 |
| CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE | 60 | 60 |
| Total | 100 | 100 |
Course’s Contribution to Program
| COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM | ||||||
| No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | ||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To develop the scientific cognition, comprehensive knowledge of critical theories, concepts and scientific data collection methods and to be competent in discussion skills in the field of media and communication. | X | ||||
| 2 | To be able to define and analyze the historical development of mass communication in relation with its social and cultural results. | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to relate the contemporary concepts like post-modernism, globalization, post-colonialism, post-structuralism to the tradition of critical thought which is constructed on mass media. | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to analyze and discuss the economical, political and cultural facts and developments which are mediated by the forms of mass media, and their impacts on social life. | X | ||||
| 5 | To be able to define the interdisciplinary structure of cultural studies and to be able to interpret the mutual effects between the traditional scientific disciplines and communication studies. | X | ||||
| 6 | To be competent in the classical and modern aesthetic theories established in audio, visual and written history of art, and to be able to analyze and discuss the narrative types and styles under the light of these theories. | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to critically evaluate how political actions and actors in social life use mass media and the way that they take place in them, in connection with their sociopolitical results. | X | ||||
| 8 | To be able to comprehend the national and international relationship of broadcasting policies and to be able to evaluate the social and cultural causes and effects accordingly. | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to recognize the economical and cultural operations at the national and international levels, through the relations of media ownership, their channels and the media products, and to be able to connect and combine with the marketing techniques and items. | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to connect the marketing techniques, devises and styles with media theories, and to be able to examine the practice methods. | X | ||||
| 11 | To be able to name the theoretical studies on national and international film history and culture, and to be able to recognize the major examples and to correlate them with theories. | X | ||||
| 12 | To be competent in the distinct writing formats of narrative styles of film and television, and to be able to apply them. | X | ||||
| 13 | To be able to recognize the technical structures and potentials of the mass media, and to be able to follow the technological developments and to apply them. | |||||
ECTS
| ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION | |||
| Activities | Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total Workload (Hour) |
| Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) | 16 | 5 | 80 |
| Weekly presentation | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Assignments and article | 5 | 35 | 15 |
| Total Work Load | 211 | ||
| Total Work Load / 25 (h) | 6 | ||
| ECTS Credit of the Course | 6 | ||