COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ESH 0056 SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Faculty Of Letters

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ÖZKAN YILDIZ

Offered to

American Culture and Literature
Archeology
Museology
.
Translation and Interpreting
.
Turkish Language and Literature
Translation and Interpreting(Turkish-German-English)
Psychology
Archeology
Comparative Literature
Philosophy
Linguistics
History
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)
History
Comparative Literature

Course Objective

To understand the role mass communication in the emergence of modern societies and to understand the importance of mass communication in analysis of modern societies

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to understand field and methods of the sociology of mass communication
2   to understand different mass communication theories and theoretical approches by making comparisons
3   to gain a critical perspective to analyze contemporary media industry
4   to understand the forms of production and distribution of media industry and its relationships to economic and political power
5   to understand the impacts of technologic developments of the mass communication devices to social experience of everyday social life

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 definition and area of the sociology of mass communication (1)
2 Basic concepts of the mass communication I(1)
3 Basic concepts of the mass communication II (1)
4 Semiiology: Saussure (1)
5 The basic method of mass communication: Content Analysis (2)
6 Mass communication and Ideology: Althusser ve Gramsci (1)
7 Ieological Analysis of Mass Communication Messages (1)
8 The most widespread Mass Communication Device: Television (3, 4)
9 Mid-Term
10 The rise of Mass Communication and Mass Society: Frankfurt School (5)
11 Mass Communication and Culture Industry (5)
12 Mass Communication Studies in Turkey (6, 7)

Recomended or Required Reading

1. John Fiske, 1990, Iletişim Çalışmalarına Giriş, Ankara: Bilim ve Sanat
2. John Storey, Popüler Kültür Çalışmaları, babil Yayınları, 2005
3. Neil Postman, 1994, Televizyon: Öldüren Eğlence, Iistanbul: Ayrıntı
4. Baudrillard, Tam Ekran, Yapı Kredi Yyaınları, Istanbul, 2001
5. Beybin Kejanlıoğlu, 2005, Frankfurt Okulunun Eleştirel Uğrağı, Ankara: Imge
6. Beybin Kejanlıoğlu, 2004, Türkiye de Medyanın Dönüşümü, Ankara: Imge
7. Gülseren Adaklı, 2006,Türkiye de Medya Endüstrisi, Ankara: ütopya
8. John Keane, 1992, Medya ve Demokrasi, Istanbul: Ayrıntı

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Face to face

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Mail: ozkan.yildiz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 16 3 48
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 16 2 32
Midterm 1 6 6
Final 1 12 12
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 98

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55

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