| Radio, Television and Cinema (English) | |||||
| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
| Course Code: | COM105 | ||||
| Course Name: | Media and Society | ||||
| Semester: | Fall | ||||
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| Language of instruction: | English | ||||
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| Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||
| Type of course: | Compulsory Courses | ||||
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| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face | ||||
| Course Coordinator: | Prof. Dr. PEYAMİ ÇELİKCAN | ||||
| Course Lecturer(s): | Dr. Şükran PAKKAN TOSUN | ||||
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| Course Objectives: | 1- To understand the place of media in society and its effects on society, 2- Analyzing the basic concepts and problems in mass communication theory, 3- Describing the epistemological, ontological and axiological movements of societies by looking at the media. 4- Determining the strategies about media impact and management and reviewing the practical effects. |
| Course Content: | Students who learn the basic concepts related to the media, its place in the media in society, the media provide acquainted with basic issues such as the impact on society, the future of the media in Turkey and to inform about the impact of the world, the mass media to provide attributes and historical development of the the light of social developments, the media's effects on society ( to exemplify the role of politics, democracy, women, children, etc.) and its place in society, to enable them to understand the order of the media with main topics such as the development of the media in globalization, media literacy. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Determine the relation of mass media with social structure. 2) Interpret the relationship between media and culture in the context of globalization. 3) Relates the public effects of media. 4) Analyze the effects of media on mass processes. 5) Criticizes how the media affects modern politics and democracy in the information society. |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | What is Media? What is Society? Mass Communication, Basic Concepts of Mass and Mass Society. | |
| 2) | Effects and Functions of Mass Media | |
| 3) | Effects of Media on Individuals, Society and Culture, Construction of Cultural and Social Memory | |
| 4) | The Paradigm of Influence in Media, From Passive Audience to Active Audience: Persuasion, Flow, Impact, Framing, Dependency Theories | |
| 5) | Media and Public Opinion: Hegomania, Propanganda and Manipulation Theories | |
| 6) | Reality Construction, Culture Industry, Modernity and Critical Theory in Media | |
| 7) | The Commodification of Communication: Political Economy of the Media | |
| 8) | ASSIGMENTS-VISA WEEK | |
| 9) | Social and Cultural Identities and Media: Minorities, Gender, Children | |
| 10) | Reality of the News: Original, Presentational and Perceptual Reality | |
| 11) | Globalization and Media, Information Society and Sociology of the Information Society | |
| 12) | The Role of Media in the Formation of a Democratic Society | |
| 13) | Media Ethics, Digital Democracy, Future of Mass Communication | |
| 14) | The Right to Be Forgotten – Evaluation, Discussion | |
| 15) | Final |
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Asa Briggs - Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet |
| References: | Asa Briggs - Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet |
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| Program Outcomes | ||||||||||||||
| 1) By providing both theoretical and practical education, it prepares students for academic and business life. | ||||||||||||||
| 2) It provides a critical perspective on mass media. | ||||||||||||||
| 3) With the English curriculum, it allows students to follow the international market and academic studies from original sources. | ||||||||||||||
| 4) Students will be an expert in front of the camera, behind-the-scenes, news center, light, sound, editing, directing, cinematography, screenwriting. | ||||||||||||||
| 5) Thanks to the media professionals, the students will be ready for the sector. | ||||||||||||||
| 6) Acquires production skills such as short and medium films, screenplays, documentaries and TV programs. | ||||||||||||||
| 7) Have the basic knowledge and experience of image technologies. | ||||||||||||||
| 8) Thanks to sectoral cooperation, professional business life will be started. | ||||||||||||||
| 9) Through an applied curriculum, students gain an interdisciplinary perspective on different media studies. | ||||||||||||||
| 10) With the technical training to be taken in studio environment, students gain experience in the sector. | ||||||||||||||
| 11) They will have skills such as negotiating with the group, taking initiative. | ||||||||||||||
| 12) Acquire basic values related to media and business ethics. | ||||||||||||||
| 13) Follow the developments in the field and communicate with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio B1. | ||||||||||||||
| 14) Students use information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field. | ||||||||||||||
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | By providing both theoretical and practical education, it prepares students for academic and business life. | |
| 2) | It provides a critical perspective on mass media. | |
| 3) | With the English curriculum, it allows students to follow the international market and academic studies from original sources. | |
| 4) | Students will be an expert in front of the camera, behind-the-scenes, news center, light, sound, editing, directing, cinematography, screenwriting. | |
| 5) | Thanks to the media professionals, the students will be ready for the sector. | |
| 6) | Acquires production skills such as short and medium films, screenplays, documentaries and TV programs. | |
| 7) | Have the basic knowledge and experience of image technologies. | |
| 8) | Thanks to sectoral cooperation, professional business life will be started. | |
| 9) | Through an applied curriculum, students gain an interdisciplinary perspective on different media studies. | |
| 10) | With the technical training to be taken in studio environment, students gain experience in the sector. | |
| 11) | They will have skills such as negotiating with the group, taking initiative. | |
| 12) | Acquire basic values related to media and business ethics. | |
| 13) | Follow the developments in the field and communicate with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio B1. | |
| 14) | Students use information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field. |
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Midterms | 1 | % 50 |
| Final | 1 | % 50 |
| total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
| total | % 100 | |
| Activities | Number of Activities | Preparation for the Activity | Spent for the Activity Itself | Completing the Activity Requirements | Workload | ||
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 3 | 84 | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 18 | ||
| Final | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 18 | ||
| Total Workload | 120 | ||||||