At the end of this course, the students; 1) Will analyze the role and effect of communication tools in shaping social memory in different ways in societies. 2) Will be informed about why social events and traumas are remembered/forgotten in different ways and how to come to terms with past on the axis of these differences. 3) Will learn about the power of mass media in the democratization of memory.
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
None
COURSE DEFINITION
The course aims to enable students to associate mass media contents with the emergence of concepts such as social memory, power memory, counter-memory and cultural memory.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Course Introduction
2nd Week
Social Memory and Social Frameworks of Social Memory
3rd Week
Historiography
4th Week
Identity and Social Memory I: Nation State Memory
5th Week
Contributions of Communication Studies to Oral History Studies 1: Archive and Testimony
6th Week
Contributions of Communication Studies to Oral History Studies 2: Cultural and Communicative Memory
7th Week
Identity and Social Memory II: Post-Nation-State Cosmopolitan Memory
8th Week
Midterm Exam
9th Week
The Spaces of Memory as a Communication Tool
10th Week
Performative Bodily Practices as a Communication Tool
11th Week
Trauma: Coming to terms with the Past
12th Week
Mourning-Lost
13th Week
Revenge, Apology and Forgiveness
14th Week
Social Memory-Democracy as a Retrotopia Between Nostalgia and Utopia
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
Assmann, Jan (2001). Kültürel Hafıza. Çev., Ayşe Tekin. İstanbul: Ayrıntı. Boym, Svetlana. (2009). Nostaljinin Geleceği, (Çev. Ferit Budak Aydar), İstanbul: Metis Yayınevi. Connerton, Paul (1999). Toplumlar Nasıl Anımsar. Çev., Alaaddin Şenel. İstanbul: Ayrıntı. Connerton, Paul. (2012). Modernite Nasıl Unutturur?. (Çev. Kübra Kelebekoğlu), İstanbul: Sel Yayınları. Halbwachs, Maurice. (2019). Kolektif Bellek, Çev. Banu Barış, İstanbul: Heretik Yayınları. Nora, Pierre (2006). Hafıza Mekanları. Çev., Mehmet Emin Özcan. Ankara: Dost. Sancar, Mithat (2007). Geçmişle Hesaplaşma, Unutma Kültüründen Hatırlama Kültürüne. İstanbul: İletişim.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
Lecture,Discussion
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
Quantity
Percentage(%)
Mid-term
1
25
Attendance
1
15
Total(%)
40
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)
40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)
60
Total(%)
100
ECTS WORKLOAD
Activities
Number
Hours
Workload
Midterm exam
1
3
3
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work
1
60
60
Preparation for Final exam
1
50
50
Course hours
14
3
42
Preparation for Midterm exam
1
50
50
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
1
3
3
Homework
Presentation (including preperation)
7
12
84
Total Workload
292
Total Workload / 30
9,73
ECTS Credits of the Course
10
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)
No
KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES (KLO) / MATRIX OF LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO)
