FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION

Department of New Media and Communication

NMC 201 | Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Name
Media and Politics
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
NMC 201
Fall
2
2
3
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 Case Study
Lecture / Presentation
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives The course aims to introduce students to the main concepts of political science and the relationship between politics and communication.
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Analyse how social, economic and political forces determine the role and effect of media in a given society.
  • Apply diverse theoretical tools to the discussion of the interplay between media/communication and politics.
  • Provide essays related to the key issues of the politics, media and communication.
  • Apply diverse theoretical tools to the discussion of the interplay between media/communication and politics
  • Analyse the interaction between media and politics in international conjuncture.
Course Description This course is designed to provide the students with an historical account of relations between media and political power. In addition to theoretical discussions on how the media is shaped by social, economic and political circumstances, the course also examines a number of cases, both from international and domestic, that best exemplify the interplay between media and politics.

 



Course Category

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

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Related Preparation
1 Introduction to the course: An overview of the topics and themes
2 Media and Politics Wolfsfeld, Gadi, Making Sense of Media and Politics, Routledge, 2011, pp.9-72. McNair, Brian, Politics in the age of Mediation, London, 1995, pp. 3-67.
3 Power and Ideology I Mills, C. W., The power elite. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1956. Dahl, R. A., A preface to democratic theory. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1956. Domhoff, G. W., Who rules America: Challenges to corporate and class dominance (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 2010. Lukes, Steven, Power, A Radical View, Palgrave, Second Edition, 2005.
4 Power and Ideology II Gramsci, Antonio, Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci, New York, International Publishers, 1971. Heywood, Andrew, Political Ideas and Concepts: An Introduction, London, Macmillan, 1994.
5 Media, Power and Politics Mazzoleni, Gianpietro, Schulz Winfried, “Mediatization of Politics: A Challenge For Democracy?”, Political Communication, 1999: 16, p. 247-26.
6 Mid-Term
7 Media Structures Calabrese, A. and Sparks, C. (eds), Toward a Political Economy of Culture, Capitalism and Communication in the 21st Century, Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.. Curran, James, Shanto Iyengar, Anker Brink Lund, and Inka Salovaara-Moring, Media System, Public Knowledge and Democracy: A Comparative Study. European Journal of Communication 2009: 24, p.5-26.
8 Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky, Noam, and HermanEdward S, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, 1988.
9 Democracy Habermas, Jürgen, “Three Normative Models of Democracy”, The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1998, pp.239-253. Mouffe, Chantal, Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically, London: Routledge, 2013, pp.1-85.
10 Media and Democracy O'Neil, Patrick H. “Democratization and Mass Communication: What is the Link?” in O'Neil, Patrick H., ed. Communicating democracy: The media and political transitions. Lynne Rienner, 1998. McChesney, R., Rich Media Poor Democracy, New York: New Press, 2000, pp.1-15, 281-320.
11 Media, Democracy and Citizenship Coleman, S. and J. Blumer, The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp.1-13; 14-67. Bennett, W. Lance, and Robert M. Entman, eds., Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp.1-56.
12 Student Presentations
13 Political Engagement in the Digital Age Shirky, C., Here Come Everybody: the Power of Organizing Without Organizations, London, Penguin Press, 2008, pp.25-55. Morris, David S., and Morris, Jonathan S., “Digital inequality and participation in the political process: Real or imagined?” Social Science Computer Review, 2013: 31(5):589-600.
14 Media and Politics in the Digital Age: What the Future Holds? Mapping Digital Social Innovation, October 2018, EU Report.
15 Semester Review
16 Final Exam

 

Course Notes/Textbooks

Mills, C. W., The power elite. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1956 ISBN 978-0195133547.; Dahl, R. A., A preface to democratic theory. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1956, ISBN 0-226-13426-1.; Domhoff, G. W., Who rules America: Challenges to corporate and class dominance (6th ed.). New York,NY: McGraw Hill, 2010, ISBN 0078111560,9780078111563.Lukes, Steven, Power, A Radical View, Palgrave, Second Edition, 2005, ISBN 9780333420928; Murdock, Graham and Golding, Peter, “Dismantling the Digital Divide: Rethinking the Dynamics of Participation and Exclusion”, A. Calabrese and C.Sparks (eds), Toward a Political Economy of Culture, Capitalism and Communication in the21st Century, Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004,.ISBN 0742526844, 9780742526846; Noam Chomsky, Noam,and HermanEdward S, Manufacturing Consent:The Political Economy of the Mass Media, 1988, ISBN 9781847920706

Suggested Readings/Materials

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
1
10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
1
30
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm
1
30
Final Exam
1
30
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
3
70
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
1
30
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
Theoretical Course Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
2
32
Laboratory / Application Hours
(Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)
16
2
32
Study Hours Out of Class
14
2
28
Field Work
0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
0
Portfolio
0
Homework / Assignments
0
Presentation / Jury
1
20
20
Project
0
Seminar / Workshop
0
Oral Exam
0
Midterms
1
28
28
Final Exam
1
35
35
    Total
175

 

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.

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.

10

To be able to apply social, scientific and professional ethical values in the field of new media and communication.

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

 


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