This course aims to introduce the relationship between societal structures and media. Within the sociological, political, economic, historical framework, several themes will be discussed. Oral/written culture, enlighment and modernity, industrialisation and urbanisation, culture industries, postmodernity, digital culture, globalisation will be the moments of the course. By the end of the semester students are expected to gain the skills to evaluate and discuss the issues critically in the field from a scientific perspective.
Oral/written culture, enlighment and modernity, industrialisation and urbanisation, culture industries, postmodernity, digital culture, globalisation will be the moments of the course. Students, who pass the course, are expect to gain to evaluate and discuss the issues critically in the field from a scientific perspective.
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Course Flow
COURSE CONTENT | ||
Week | Topics | Study Materials |
1 | Introduction to the Course | Foundation of Social Sciences |
2 | Culture, Society and Communication in Antiquity | Forms of Communication |
3 | Modernity and Modernism | All That Solid Melts into Air |
4 | Cultural Industries | The Arcades Project |
5 | Mass Culture and Popular Culture | Dialectic of Enlightment |
6 | Society of Spectacle | Guy Debord’s Texts |
7 | Class Presentations | Selected from the Reading List |
8 | Class Presentations | Selected from the Reading List |
9 | Postmodernity and Postmodernism | The Condition of Postmodernity |
10 | Urban Culture and Communication | The Conscience of the Eye |
11 | Globalisation | Zymund Bauman’s Texts |
12 | Citizens, Communication and Democracy | Peter Dahlgren’s Texts |
13 | Class Presentations | Selected from the Reading List |
14 | Class Presentations | Selected from the Reading List |
15 | Review of the Course | Case Analyses |
Recommended Sources
RECOMMENDED SOURCES | |
Textbook | |
Additional Resources |
Adorno, Theodor, Horkheimer Max (1995). Aydınlanmanın Diyalektiği, Çev. Oğuz Özügül, Kabalcı Yay: İstanbul.
Adorno, Theodor (2007). Kültür Endüstrisi-Kültür Yönetimi, Çev. Elçin Gen, Mustafa Tüzel, Nihat Ülner, İletişim Yay: İstanbul Bauman, Zygmunt (2006). Küreselleşme, Çev. Abdullah Yılmaz Ayrıntı Yay: İstanbul Benjamin, Walter. (2001). Pasajlar, Çev. Ahmet Cemal, Yapı Kredi Yay: İstanbul. Bermann, Marshall, (1999). Katı Olan Her Şey Buharlaşıyor, Çev. Ümit Altug, Bülent Peker, İletişim Yay: İstanbul Berger, John (1993). Görme Biçimleri. Çev. Yurdanur Salman, Metis Yay: İstanbul Dahlgren, Peter (2009). Media and Political Engagement: Citizens, Communication and Democracy, Cambridge University Press.
Eagletone, Terry (2004). Kuramdan Sonra, Çev. Uygar Abacı, Literatür Yay: İstanbul Harvey, David (2002). Postmodernliğin Durumu, Çev. Sungur Savran, Metis Yay: İstanbul Kıray, Mübeccel (1998). Kentleşme Yazıları, Bağlam Yay: İstanbul İstanbul Küçük, Mehmet (2000). Modernite vs Postmodernite, Vadi Yay: Ankara Lull, James (2000). Popüler Müzik ve İletişim, Çev. Turgut İblağ, Chiviyazilari Yay: İstanbul Mumford, Lewis (2007). Tarih Boyunca Kent, Çev. Gürol Koca, Tamer Tosun, Ayrıntı Yay: İstanbul Urry, John (1996), Mekanları Tüketmek, Çev. Rahmi Öğdül, Ayrıntı Yay: İstanbul Sanders, Barry (1999). Öküzün A'sı : Elektronik Çağda Yazılı Kültürün Çöküşü Ve Şiddetin Yükselişi, Çev. Şehnaz Tahir, Ayrıntı Yay: İstanbul |
Material Sharing
MATERIAL SHARING | |
Documents | |
Assignments | |
Exams |
Assessment
ASSESSMENT | ||
IN-TERM STUDIES | NUMBER | PERCENTAGE |
Presentation | 1 | 70 |
Assignment | 2 | 30 |
Total | 100 | |
CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE | 50 | |
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE | 50 | |
Total | 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. | |||||
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. | |||||
10 | To be able to connect the marketing techniques, devises and styles with media theories, and to be able to examine the practice methods. | |||||
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. | |||||
12 | To be competent in the distinct writing formats of narrative styles of film and television, and to be able to apply them. | |||||
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. | X | ||||
14 | To be able to scrutinize advanced aesthetic approaches and the visual effects with the national and international examples and to be able to apply them skillfully. | |||||
15 | To be able to combine the narrative genres, the aesthetic approaches, technical knowledge and the theoretical knowledge in media and communication with a creative design, and to become skillful at embodying it with a project. |
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 | 3 | 48 |
Presentations | 2 | 22 | 44 |
Final exam | 1 | 20 | 20 |
Total Work Load | 150 | ||
Total Work Load / 25 (h) | 5 | ||
ECTS Credit of the Course | 5 |