Media and Communication Theories

Content

Objective

This course will cover the theoretical debates on media and communication processes. Within this course, it is aimed to explore the problematisations of communicative praxis in a frame of socio-cultural context.

Course Content

1st Week: Modern Society and mass communication
2nd Week: Sybernetics
3rd Week: Functionalism
4th Week: Text
5th Week: Innis and McLuhan
6th Week: Text
7th Week: Exam
8th Week: Frankfurt School
9Th Week: Frankfurt School
10h Week: Text
11th Week: Althusser and Gramsci
12th Week: Semiology- R. Barthes
13th Week: Cultural Studies
14th Week: Evaluation

Course Learning Outcomes

After the end of this course, the student will:
• Be able to define anthropology of communication and its methodology
• Be able to observe cultural dimensions of communication in everyday life spaces.
• Understand the temporal/spatial dimensions of cultural communication
• Learn the communication of time between cultures
• Define the role of body language in the context of cultural dimensions
• Be able to discuss relations between culture and language
• Be able to define the communicational dimensions of visual arts

References

1. ATTALAH, Paul. Théories de la Communication- Histoire, Contexte, Pouvoir, Québec: Eds. Télé-Université, 1989
2. ATTALAH, Paul. Théories de la Communication_Sens, Sujets, Québec:Eds. Télé- Université, 1989
3. MATTELARD, Armand. Histoire des Théories de la Communication, Paris: Eds. La Découverte, 1995
4. BRETON, Philippe et PROULX Serge. L’Explosion de la Communication, Paris: Eds. La Decouverte,1989
5. ALEMDAR, Korkmaz ve ERDOĞAN, İrfan. Öteki Kuram, Erk Yayınları, 2005