VIK007 Psychological Aspects of Media

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2002
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Jana Marie Havigerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Pavla Kánská
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Martina Sendlerová
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The purpose of this seminary is to get knowledge of the beginning and the development of media, their function in a process of interpersonal communication, pro-and-con of each medium.
Syllabus
  • 1. General principles of interpersonal communication, linear and circual model. 2. Means of communication, their classification. 3. Media communication, medium interpreted by McLuhan. Hot and cool media. 4. Phylogenetic and historical view on media evolution (DeFleur, McLuhan). 5. Particular contribution of single media to a human. 6. Mass media communication. A model of the injection needle, a model of the two-phased process. 7. The influence of an announcer and a news organization on the content of the information. 8. The recipient. The influence of the recipient personality on the reception of the information. Soporific impact, boomerang effect. 9. Aggression as a specific phenomenon. The theory of aggression. 10. The theory of the influence of media aggression on the viewer. 11. Research in the quantity and influence of televisual violence. 12. Possibilities of further research, suggestions of students .
Literature
  • PETŘÍKOVÁ, Jana and David ŠTĚPÁNEK. Média - prostředky transferu informací (Media Communication). 1st ed. Brno: FF MU Brno, 1998, 48 pp. ISBN 80-210-1992-1. info
  • WATSON, James and Anne HILL. A dictionary of communication and media studies. 4th ed. London: Arnold, 1997, xii, 251 s. ISBN 0-340-67635-3. info
  • Ill effects: the media/violence debate. Edited by Martin Barker - Julian Petley. London: Routledge, 1997, x, 171 s. ISBN 0-415-14672-0. info
  • THOMPSON, John B. The media and modernity : a social theory of the media. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995, viii, 314. ISBN 0-7456-1005-6. info
  • MCLUHAN, Marshall. Understanding media : the extensions of man. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995, xxiii, 365. ISBN 0262631598. info
  • MCQUAIL, Denis. Mass communication theory : an introduction [McQuail, 1994]. 3rd ed. London: SAGE Publications, 1994, xiv, 416 s. ISBN 0-8039-7784-0. info
  • MCQUAIL, Denis and Sven WINDAHL. Communication models : for the study of mass communications. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1993, viii, 229. ISBN 0-582-03650-X. info
  • POWERS, Bruce R. and Marshall MCLUHAN. The global village : transformations in world life and media in the 21st century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, xiii, 220. ISBN 0-19-505444-X. info
  • FIORE, Quentin and Marshall MCLUHAN. The medium is the massage : an inventory of effects. New York: Bantam Books, 1967, 159 s. info
  • MCLUHAN, Marshall. The medium is the massage. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1966, ca 30 s. ISBN 0-14-002816-1. info
Language of instruction
Czech
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