ZUR393f Culture and Media

Fakulta sociálních studií
podzim 2014
Rozsah
0/2/0. 6 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučující
Charles Michael Elavsky, Ph.D. (přednášející)
doc. Mgr. Jakub Macek, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Mgr. Pavel Sedláček (pomocník)
Garance
prof. PhDr. Jiří Pavelka, CSc.
Katedra mediálních studií a žurnalistiky – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Ing. Bc. Pavlína Brabcová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra mediálních studií a žurnalistiky – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
St 9:45–11:15 AVC
Předpoklady
The course is taught in English and it is expected that the enrolled students are able to communicate, write and read in the language efficiently.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 20 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 0/20, pouze zareg.: 0/20, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/20
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This course will introduce you to a variety of approaches for studying the mass media and the way they operate culturally. Engaging the readings and assignments and participating in the discussions is critical for you to leave this course with a greater understanding of how and why the media operate as they do, as well as how they are both shaped by and contribute to the social and cultural formation in which you live. Part of this process will involve enhancing our interpretive abilities and critical thinking skills so as to consider alternatives to our ‘common’ sense in an effort to think through the larger ethics and implications of media practices and beliefs and our individual relationships to them. It is important to ask yourself about your ‘location’ in this social and cultural configuration (your cultural ‘box’ so to speak), how you fit within it, and in turn, how it affects you and you affect it. Integral to understanding society and culture is gaining a better understanding of ourselves and the intersections of identity, experience, and representation that connect us beyond our personal ‘borders’ of definition. The purpose of this course is to provide a space in which we can analyze and discuss the role of the mass media in and between societies. Our goal is to develop critical thinking (meaning to question that which is most obvious), so as to discern how ideas and experiences are produced and disseminated through the mass media within and across cultures, and how specific cultural, social, political, and economic forces influence and inform these processes.
Osnova
  • Week 1: (9/17: Introduction – overview of course, syllabus and requirements
  • Week 2 (9/24): Mass Communication: A Critical Approach (Chapter 1)
  • Week 3 (10/1): The Internet, Digital Media, and Media Convergence (Chapter 2) Digital Gaming and the Media Playground (Chapter 3)
  • Week 4 (10/8): Sound Recording and Popular Music (Chapter 4), Popular Radio and the Origins of Broadcasting (Chapter 5)
  • Week 5 (10/15): Television and Cable: The Power of Visual Culture (Chapter 6), Movies and the Impact of Images (Chapter 7)
  • Week 6 (10/22): Newspapers: The Rise and Decline of Modern Journalism
  • (Chapter 8), The Culture of Journalism: Values, Ethics, and Democracy (Chapter 14) Week 7 (10/29): Magazines in the Age of Specialization (Chapter 9), Books and the Power of Print (Chapter 10)
  • Week 8 (11/5): Advertising and Commercial Culture (Chapter 11), Public Relations and Framing the Message (Chapter 12)
  • Week 9 & 10: 11/12 and 11/19 CRITICAL ESSAY
  • Week 11 (11/26): Media Economics and the Global Marketplace (Chapter 13)
  • Week 12 (12/3): Media Effects and Cultural Approaches to Research (Chapter 15), Legal Controls and Freedom of Expression (Chapter 16)
  • Week 13 (12/10): Conclusion/wrap-up
Literatura
  • Campbell, R., Martin, C, & Fabos, B. (2014). Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age
Výukové metody
Lectures, reading.
Metody hodnocení
Semester Grading Breakdown:
Attendance and Class Participation = 25%
Quizzes = 25%
Critical Essay = 25%
Final Exam = 25%
TOTAL = 100% of final grade
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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