Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
Introduction and Overview of the Course |
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2) |
The political economy of media / Key concepts |
“For a political economy of mass communications”, Graham Murdock & Peter Golding |
3) |
The political economy of media / Key concepts |
“The study of the political economy of the media in the twenty-first century”, Janet Wasko |
4) |
Media, Power and Democracy |
Readings from Louis Althusser, Antonio Gramsci and Herbert Schiller |
5) |
Manufacturing consent: the political economy of the mass media |
“Manufacturing consent: the political economy of the mass media”
Edward S. Herman/Noam Chomsky |
6) |
The political economy of the press and news value |
“The structure of foreign news: the presentation of the Congo, Cuba and Cyprus crises in four Norwegian newspapers”, Johan Galtung and Mari Ruge
“What Is News? Galtung and Ruge revisited”, Tony Harcup & Deirdre O'Neill |
7) |
Midterm |
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8) |
Introduction to political economy of new media |
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9) |
Alternative media |
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10) |
Alternative media and crowdfunding in the digital age |
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11) |
Net neutrality |
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12) |
The political economy of film industry
Discussion: The Post (movie) |
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13) |
A comparative analysis of media pluralism |
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14) |
Closing section: final review before final exam |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
1) |
Having the theoretical and practical knowledge proficiency in the discipline of industrial product design |
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2) |
Applying professional knowledge to the fields of product, service and experience design development |
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3) |
Understanding, using, interpreting and evaluating the design concepts, knowledge and language |
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4) |
Knowing the research methods in the discipline of industrial product design, collecting information with these methods, interpreting and applying the collected knowledge |
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5) |
Identifying the problems of industrial product design, evaluating the conditions and requirements of problems, producing proposals of solutions to them |
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6) |
Developing the solutions with the consideration of social, cultural, environmental, economic and humanistic values; being sensitive to personal differences and ability levels |
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7) |
Having the ability of communicating the knowledge about design concepts and solutions through written, oral and visual methods |
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8) |
To identify and apply the relation among material, form giving, detailing, maintenance and manufacturing methods of design solutions |
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9) |
Using the computer aided information and communication technologies for the expression of industrial product design solutions and applications |
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10) |
Having the knowledge and methods in disciplines like management, engineering, psychology, ergonomics, visual communication which support the solutions of industrial product design; having the ability of searching, acquiring and using the knowledge that belong these disciplines when necessary. |
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11) |
Using a foreign language to command the jargon of industrial product design and communicate with the colleagues from different cultures |
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12) |
Following and evaluating the new topics and trends that industrial product design needs to integrate according to technological and scientific developments |
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