NEW MEDIA | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
NMD3202 | Media Critics | Fall Spring |
3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester |
Language of instruction: | En |
Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi TİRŞE ERBAYSAL FİLİBELİ |
Course Objectives: | This course aims to raise awareness of bias and ideology in the media that surround us daily. The course does not promote a particular political viewpoint, but challenges you to engage media critically, thereby becoming better informed citizens. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; - gain the ability to analyze news on different media platforms, - gain the ability to evaluate all components of the news; sentence structures, word selection, titles, photos, - are able to evaluate the effects of the media with a critical perspective. |
This course develops critical thinking on journalism and news media. Within the scope of the course, topics that will help students to critically approach the media will be examined in the light of colonialism, postcolonialism, ideology, gender, ways of seeing and many other theories. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation | |
1) | Introduction to the course | ||
2) | Approaching media criticism: Reflections on motives, materials and methods | ||
3) | Manufacturing Consent: How free is our freedom of speech and press? | ||
4) | Being critical consumers of the news | ||
5) | Way of seeing | ||
6) | Discussion: Black Mirror | ||
7) | Discourse analysis as ideology analysis | ||
8) | Midterm | ||
9) | Gender, race and media representation | ||
10) | Post-colonial critic: Post-colonial theory | ||
11) | Douglas Kellner: Reflections on Modernity and Postmodernity in McLuhan and Baudrillard | ||
12) | Approaches to visual communication media criticism and their application to TV genres | ||
13) | 2 examples of media bias | ||
14) | Evaluation of the term before final exam |
Course Notes: | 1) Gender, Race, and Class in Media : A Critical Reader / editors, Gail Dines, Wheelock College, Jean M. Humez, University of Massachusetts, Boston. 2) Stokes, Jane (2003) How to do Media and Cultural Studies. London: Sage. |
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Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | % 0 | |
Laboratory | 0 | % 0 |
Application | 0 | % 0 |
Field Work | 0 | % 0 |
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | 0 | % 0 |
Quizzes | 0 | % 0 |
Homework Assignments | 0 | % 0 |
Presentation | % 0 | |
Project | 0 | % 0 |
Seminar | 0 | % 0 |
Midterms | 1 | % 50 |
Preliminary Jury | 0 | % 0 |
Final | 1 | % 50 |
Paper Submission | 0 | % 0 |
Jury | 0 | % 0 |
Bütünleme | % 0 | |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 13 | 3 | 39 |
Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Field Work | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 6 | 84 |
Presentations / Seminar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Homework Assignments | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Quizzes | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Preliminary Jury | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Paper Submission | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jury | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 127 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | To be able to critically interpret and discuss the theories, the concepts, the traditions, and the developments in the history of thought which are fundamental for the field of new media, journalism and communication. | |
2) | To be able to attain written, oral and visual knowledge about technical equipment and software used in the process of news and the content production in new media, and to be able to acquire effective abilities to use them on a professional level. | |
3) | To be able to get information about the institutional agents and generally about the sector operating in the field of new media, journalism and communication, and to be able to critically evaluate them. | |
4) | To be able to comprehend the reactions of the readers, the listeners, the audiences and the users to the changing roles of media environments, and to be able to provide and circulate an original contents for them and to predict future trends. | |
5) | To be able to apprehend the basic theories, the concepts and the thoughts related to neighbouring fields of new media and journalism in a critical manner. | |
6) | To be able to grasp global and technological changes in the field of communication, and the relations due to with their effects on the local agents. | |
7) | To be able to develop skills on gathering necessary data by using scientific methods, analyzing and circulating them in order to produce content. | |
8) | To be able to develop acquired knowledge, skills and competence upon social aims by being legally and ethically responsible for a lifetime, and to be able to use them in order to provide social benefit. | |
9) | To be able to operate collaborative projects with national/international colleagues in the field of new media, journalism and communication. | |
10) | To be able to improve skills on creating works in various formats and which are qualified to be published on the prestigious national and international channels. |