At the end of this course, the students; 1) Develop a different perspective and question current events with a different view. 2) Understand that nothing is at it seems at first glance. 3) Comprehend that media can become a means of propaganda and power.
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
No recommended optional programme components.
COURSE DEFINITION
According to Noam Chomsky violence is the tool of dictatorship, whereas media is the tool of democracy. Starting with the discourse which refers to the significance of the media, this course will shed a light on how media is used by politicians and other agenda setters for the construction (constructivism) of the reality. Moreover, in the course, topics such as media and ethics, the responsibilities of media and discrimination will be widely covered.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
What is Communication? What is Media? What is Mass Media?
2nd Week
From the First Newspaper to Cyber Media
3rd Week
International Relations Theories: Realism, Liberalism, Constructivism
4th Week
Media Theories I: "Hypodermic" Model, Functionalism, Conflict Theory
5th Week
Media Teories II: Symbolic Interactionism, Moral Panic Theory and Postmodern Theory
6th Week
Media Analysis I: Who Says What on Which Channel to Whom with What Effect and Why? Code, Encoding and Decoding
7th Week
Media Analysis II: Television News
8th Week
Media Analiysis III: "Rally Round the Flag Syndrom" and Media as a Means of Propaganda
9th Week
Media Analysis IV: Media as a Means of Resistance
10th Week
Media Analysis V: War and Peace in Media
11th Week
Case Study I: The 1991 Gulf War and CNN
12th Week
Case Study II: The 2003 Iraq Occupation and Al-Jazeera
13th Week
Case Study III: Media's Trial with September 11
14th Week
Case Study IV: Media's Trial with the Government in Turkey
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
John J. Macionis and Ken Plummer: Sociology. A Global Introduction, Third Edition, 2005. Cynthia Boaz: "War and Foreign Policy Framing in International Media", Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 17, 2005. Cynthia Boaz: "War and Peace in the Media", Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 17, 2005. David Miller (ed.) Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq, London: Pluto Press, 2004. Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber: Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, New York: Penguin, 2003. Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent, New York: Pantheon, 1988. Denis McQuail: Mass Communication Theory: An Introduction, 4th edition, 2000. Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney: The Global Media, 2001.
