COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MEDIA ETHICS AND VISUAL CULTURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FBS 1110 MEDIA ETHICS AND VISUAL CULTURE ELECTIVE 4 0 0 4

Offered By

Film Design and Directing

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR SALI SALIJI

Offered to

Animation Film Design and Directing
Film Design and Directing
Sound Editing and Cinematography
Film Design and Screenwriting

Course Objective

To make the students acquire the theoretical knowledge about ethics and its subbranch media ethics which has been so popular recently. To improve the critical view of students by changing their passive form against the message to active. To create awareness on students about the effects of visual expressions and visual culture.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   have the knowledge about ethics, morals, media ethics,e students who,
2   have the knowledge about ethics, morals, media ethics,
3   know the history of media ethics in our country and in the world,
4   improve a critical view against the message via media,
5   have the knowledge of how to use and produce the visual phenomenon and their social, cultural, and political effects.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction and Information about lesson, references.
2 Explaining the concepts of ethics, morals, media ethics
3 Meanings of ethics in philosophy and communication sociology
4 National and internationsal development stages of media ethics. And to form the classical codes.
5 The functions of classical codes of media ethics and observing examples.
6 Basic questions about media ethics.
7 Ethical problems of journalism
8 Relationship between News process and ethics
9 The structure of owing the media, monopolisation, ethics
10 The relationship of commercials, media, ande ethics
11 The messages of media, practising the media ethics
12 Practical structures og media ethics
13 Mid-term exam
14 Media ethics, watching a film about media critics. discussion

Recomended or Required Reading

Ana kaynak:
- Douglas KELLNER, Medya Gösterisi, Çev: Zeynep Paşalı, Açılım Kitap, Istanbul, 2010

Yardımcı kaynaklar:

- Korkmaz ALEMDAR, Medya Gücü ve Demokratik Kurumlar, AFA Yayınları, Istanbul, 1999.
- Pierre BOURDIEU, Televizyon Üzerine, Turhan Ilgaz (çev.), Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul, 1997.
- Rıdvan BÜLBÜL, Iletişim ve Etik, Nobel Yayınları, Konya, 2000.
- Ahmet CEVIZCI, Etiğe Giriş, Paradigma Yayınları, Istanbul, 2002.
- Bülent ÇAPLI, Medya ve Etik, Imge Kitabevi, Ankara, 2002.
- Marilyn J. MATELSKI, TV Haberciliğinde Etik, Bahar Öcal Düzgören (çev.) Yapı Kredi Yay., Istanbul,2000.
- Ünsal OSKAY, Kitle Iletişiminin Kültürel Işlevi, Der Yayıncılık, Ankara, 1982.
- Annemaire PIEPER, Etiğe Giriş, Veysel Atayman-Gönül Sezer (çev.), Ayrıntı Yayınları, Istanbul, 1999.
- Neil POSTMAN, Televizyon Öldüren Eğlence, Osman Akınhay (çev.), Ayrıntı Yayınları, Istanbul, 1994.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The strategies will be announced later

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.30 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.30 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 4 52
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 95

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