Course Name | Sociology of Communication |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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MMC 304 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Prerequisites | None | |||||
Course Language | English | |||||
Course Type | Elective | |||||
Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | ||||||
Course Coordinator | - | |||||
Course Lecturer(s) | ||||||
Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | This class examines sociological effects of contemporary media practices. We will focus on how ‘old’ and new media coalesce in initiating social change in present-day interconnected and globalized world. We will analyze the impact of digitization on the lives of people from various regions of the world, while paying special attention to the socio-cultural and political effects of social media tools. The central aim of this class is to assess how 21st century media practices play an active role in generating socio-cultural change, and shape the way people live their lives, make sense of their everyday experiences and construct their identities. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | Each week in this class is devoted to a particular topic of discussion pertaining to the social, cultural, and political study of 21st century mediated communication practices. This class is reading-intensive and, in emphasizing the theoretical literature, it will enrich students’ understanding of the socio-cultural significances of their everyday use of communication tools and channels. |
Related Sustainable Development Goals | |
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Major Area Courses | ||
Supportive Courses | X | |
Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
Transferable Skill Courses |
Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Introduction - Media, Communication and Social Change | Lievrouw, L. A. (2009). New media, mediation, and communication study. Information, Communication & Society, 12(3), 303-325. Wajcman, J. (2008). Life in the fast lane? Towards a sociology of technology and time. The British journal of sociology, 59(1), 59-77. |
2 | Interactions between ‘Old’ and New Media | Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide. NYU press, pp. 1-24. Gurevitch, M., Coleman, S., & Blumler, J. G. (2009). Political communication—Old and new media relationships. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 625(1), 164-181. |
3 | Identity Formation in the Global Village and Networked Individualism | Merchant, G. (2006). Identity, social networks and online communication. E-Learning and digital media, 3(2), 235-244. Greenhow, C., & Robelia, B. (2009). Informal learning and identity formation in online social networks. Learning, Media and Technology, 34(2), 119-140. |
4 | Questions of Individual Empowerment Through Facebook, Twitter and Blogosphere | Barnard, S. R. (2016). Spectacles of self (ie) empowerment? Networked individualism and the logic of the (post) feminist selfie. In Communication and Information Technologies Annual: [New] Media Cultures (pp. 63-88). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Gill, R. (2012). Media, empowerment and the ‘sexualization of culture’ debates. Sex Roles, 66(11-12), 736-745. Kumar, N. (2014). Facebook for self-empowerment? A study of Facebook adoption in urban India. New media & society, 16(7), 1122-1137. |
5 | Intimate Relationships in the Age of Social Media | Boase, J., & Wellman, B. (2006). Personal relationships: On and off the Internet. The Cambridge handbook of personal relationships, 8, 709-723. Wellman, B., & Rainie, L. (2013). If Romeo and Juliet had mobile phones. Mobile Media & Communication, 1(1), 166-171. McCormack, M. (2015). The role of smartphones and technology in sexual and romantic lives, p. 1-9. |
6 | Old Media, New Media and Politics | Huyssen, A. (2000). Present pasts: Media, politics, amnesia. Public culture, 12(1), 21-38. Shirky, C. (2011). The political power of social media: Technology, the public sphere, and political change. Foreign affairs, 28-41. |
7 | Smartphone Decade | Madianou, M. (2014). Smartphones as polymedia. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 19(3), 667-680. Sung, W. (2016). A study of the digital divide in the current phase of the information age: The moderating effect of smartphones. Information Polity, 21(3), 291-306. |
8 | Interactions between Material Culture and the Digital World | Rosner, D., Roccetti, M., & Marfia, G. (2014). The digitization of cultural practices. Communications of the ACM, 57(6), 82-87. Mul, Jos de (2010). The Digitalization of Culture: Reflections on Multimediality, Interactivity, and Virtuality. In Cyberspace Odyssey: Towards a Virtual Ontology and Anthropology, pp. 85-102. Jenkins, H. (2003). Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars? Digital cinema, media convergence, and participatory culture. Rethinking media change: The aesthetics of transition, 281-312. |
9 | Art and Socio-Political Transformation | Miles, M. (2010). Representing nature: art and climate change. Cultural Geographies, 17(1), 19-35. Adams, J. (2002, March). Art in social movements: Shantytown women's protest in Pinochet's Chile. In Sociological Forum (Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 21-56). Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers. |
10 | Interactive Media Production and Consumption | Manovich, L. (2009). The practice of everyday (media) life: From mass consumption to mass cultural production?. Critical Inquiry, 35(2), 319-331. Andrejevic, M. (2002). The work of being watched: Interactive media and the exploitation of self-disclosure. Critical studies in media communication, 19(2), 230-248. |
11 | Hacktivism and Hacker Culture | Goode, L. (2015). Anonymous and the political ethos of hacktivism. Popular Communication, 13(1), 74-86. Merck, M. (2015). Masked men: hacktivism, celebrity and anonymity. Celebrity studies, 6(3), 272-287. |
12 | Postmodern Media and Contemporary Media Audiences | Shefrin, E. (2004). Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and participatory fandom: Mapping new congruencies between the internet and media entertainment culture. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 21(3), 261-281. Highfield, T., Harrington, S., & Bruns, A. (2013). Twitter as a technology for audiencing and fandom: The# Eurovision phenomenon. Information, Communication & Society, 16(3), 315-339. Brodersen, A., Scellato, S., & Wattenhofer, M. (2012, April). Youtube around the world: geographic popularity of videos. In Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web (pp. 241-250). ACM. Shugart, H. A. (1999). Postmodern irony as subversive rhetorical strategy. Western Journal of Communication (includes Communication Reports), 63(4), 433-455. |
13 | Communication Through Brand Creation and Management | Khamis, S., Ang, L., & Welling, R. (2017). Self-branding,‘micro-celebrity’and the rise of Social Media Influencers. Celebrity Studies, 8(2), 191-208. Van Ham, P. (2001). The rise of the brand state: The postmodern politics of image and reputation. Foreign affairs, 2-6. |
14 | Review of the semester | |
15 | Review of the semester | |
16 | Final Exam |
Course Notes/Textbooks | The course uses the sources that are listed above in the weekly subjects and related preparations. |
Suggested Readings/Materials |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | 1 | 20 |
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | 3 | 30 |
Presentation / Jury | ||
Project | ||
Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | ||
Final Exam | 1 | 50 |
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 4 | 60 |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 2 | 32 |
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | 3 | 3 | |
Presentation / Jury | |||
Project | |||
Seminar / Workshop | |||
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | |||
Final Exams | 1 | 28 | |
Total | 117 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To be able to critically discuss and interpret the theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of the discipline of new media and communication. | X | ||||
2 | To be able to critically interpret theoretical debates concerning the relations between the forms, agents, and factors that play a role in the field of new media and communication. | X | ||||
3 | To have the fundamental knowledge and ability to use the technical equipment and software programs required by the new media production processes. | |||||
4 | To be able to gather, scrutinize and scientifically investigate data in the processes of production and distribution. | |||||
5 | To be able to use the acquired theoretical knowledge in practice. | |||||
6 | To be able to take responsibility both individually and as a member of a group to develop solutions to problems encountered in the field of new media and communication. | |||||
7 | To be informed about national, regional, and global issues and problems; to be able to generate problem-solving methods depending on the quality of evidence and research, and to acquire the ability to report the conclusions of those methods to the public. | X | ||||
8 | To be able to critically discuss and draw on theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of other disciplines complementing the field of new media and communication studies. | X | ||||
9 | To be able to develop and use knowledge and skills towards personal and social goals in a lifelong process. | X | ||||
10 | To be able to apply social, scientific and professional ethical values in the field of new media and communication. | X | ||||
11 | To be able to collect datain the areas of new media and communication and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
12 | To be able to speak a second foreign language at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | |||||
13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. |
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest