COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Course Name
Communication, Culture & Society II
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
MCS 112
Spring
3
2
4
6
Prerequisites
None
Course Language
English
Course Type
Required
Course Level
First Cycle
Mode of Delivery face to face
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s) -
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives Explore the structural and cultural context of media and communication practices, examine processes of news and entertainment making/reception across diverse media fields, encourage students to research and analyze media institutions and goods in local/global terms.
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Develop a critical understanding on contemporary mediascape
  • Reflect on aspects of media consumption and the impacts of media uses in everyday life
  • Assess main trends in the global flows of information and the interplay between local and global
  • Evaluate main characteristics of new media practices and the challenges they set
  • Apply different methodological approaches in the analysis of media practices
  • Analyze media institutions, their organization, production and distribution practices
Course Description The course draws on diverse aspects of the media of communication, probing into their social, cultural and political implications
Related Sustainable Development Goals

 



Course Category

 Core Courses
Major Area Courses
X
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Required Materials
1 Introduction to the course
2 Culture, Ideology & Identity I O’Shaughnessy (1999) Media and Society: An Introduction Melbourne: Oxford University Press (pp.31-52)
3 Media, Modernity & Orientalism Aksoy, A. & Robins, K. (1997) Peripheral Vision: Cultural Industries and cultural identities in Turkey. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 29(11).
4 Nationalism and Media I Barker, C. (1999). Television, Globalization and Cultural Identities. Philadelphia: Open University Press (Chapter 3)
5 Nationalism and Media II Karanfil, G. (2006) Becoming Undone: Contesting Nationalisms in Contemporary Turkish Popular Cinema. National Identities , Vol. 8, No. 1
6 Film Screening
7 First Midterm
8 Globalization and Media I Barker, C. (1999). Television, Globalization and Cultural Identities. Philadelphia: Open University Press (Chapter 2)
9 Globalization and Media II From internationalization to transnationalisation by J. Chalaby
10 Globalization, Media and Identity III Karanfil, G. 2009. Pseudo-exiles and reluctant transnationals: disrupted nostalgia on Turkish satellite broadcasts. Media, culture & society, 31: 887
11 Film Screening
12 Digital Media Cultures I Fuchs, C. Critical Introduction to Social Media (Chapter 2)
13 Digital Media Cultures II Fuchs, C. Critical Introduction to Social Media (Chapter 3)
14 Second Midterm
15 Review of the semester
16 Final exam
Course Notes/Textbooks Handouts, lectures (PowerPoint presentations, seminars, structured questions and materials for class discussion, workshops, case studies, role play sessions
Suggested Readings/Materials Bibliography, print journals, open access journals

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
1
10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
1
20
Presentation / Jury
1
10
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm
2
60
Final Exam
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
6
100
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
3
48
Laboratory / Application Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
2
Study Hours Out of Class
14
3
42
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
1
14
Presentation / Jury
1
10
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms
2
17
Final Exams
    Total
180

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
 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.  

 X
5

To be able to use the acquired theoretical knowledge in practice.  

 X
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.  

 X
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).  

 X
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