New Media and Communication
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Ders Genel Tanıtım Bilgileri

Course Code:

NMC252

Ders İsmi:

Critical Media Analysis

Ders Yarıyılı:

Spring

Ders Kredileri:

Theoretical	Practical	Laboratory	ECTS
3	0	0	5

Language of instruction:

Turkish

Ders Koşulu:

Ders İş Deneyimini Gerektiriyor mu?:

Type of course:

Bölüm Seçmeli

Course Level:

Bachelor

TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:First Cycle

EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

E-Learning

Course Coordinator :

Asst. Prof. Dr. NUR ESRA ATMACA DURUM

Course Lecturer(s):

Asst. Prof. Dr. NUR ESRA ATMACA DURUM

Course Assistants:

Dersin Amaç ve İçeriği

Course Objectives:	The aim of the course is to gain skills in reading and analyzing media texts from a critical perspective.
Course Content:	The course includes discussions on the media through the main theoretical views and approaches of thinkers who look at the media from an analytical perspective in the historical process.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;

Learning Outcomes

1 - Knowledge
Theoretical - Conceptual
1) Gains a critical view of media production and consumption.
2 - Skills
Cognitive - Practical
3 - Competences
Communication and Social Competence
1) Explain the critical approaches that direct the field of communication.
Learning Competence
Field Specific Competence
1) Evaluate the critical approach's view of the media environment.
2) Be able to make critical reading of media texts.
Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility
1) May question the functioning of media production in Turkey.

Ders Akış Planı

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction to Critical Media Analysis	Pre-readings on the topics
2)	Historical Development of Communication Studies (Lazarsfeld,Laswell, Lewin, Hovland)	Pre-readings on the topics
3)	Fundamentals of Critical Theory	Pre-readings on the topics
4)	Media Mediated Democracy, Ideology and Culture	Pre-readings on the topics
5)	Marxist Resolution (infrastructure-superstructure, false consciousness, consumer society)	Pre-readings on the topics
6)	Gramsci, Althusser (hegemony, ideological state apparatuses)	Pre-readings on the topics
7)	Frankfurt School: Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, Marcuse and Habermas	Pre-readings on the topics
8)	MIDTERM EXAM	Pre-readings on the topics
9)	Culture Industry, High Culture, Popular Culture, Mass Culture	Pre-readings on the topics
10)	Structural Linguistics and Semiotics	Pre-readings on the topics
11)	Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Barthes	Pre-readings on the topics
12)	Cultural Studies Approach: Hoggart, Williams, Hall	Pre-readings on the topics
13)	Critical Economics Political Approach: Mosco, Schiller, Smythe, Herman, Chomsky	Pre-readings on the topics
14)	Political Economy Tradition in Europe: Golding, Murdock, Garnham, Mattelart	Pre-readings on the topics

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Levent Yaylagül, Kitle İletişim Kuramları, Egemen Eleştiriler ve Yaklaşımlar, Dipnot, 5. Baskı, 2013.
References:	John Fiske, İletişim Çalışmalarına Giriş. Çev. Süleyman İrvan. Ankara: Ark Yayınları, 1996. Teun Adrian van Dijk,“Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis” Discourse & Society Sage (London. Newbury Park and New Delhi), vol. 4(2): 249-283, 1993. Meltem Bostanlı, Eleştirel Medya Çalışmaları, Anahtar Kitaplar, 2016.

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