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Media Theories
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:25:27
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_161 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences | Target Audience: | Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ilva Skulte | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Analysis of Communication Situations. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To promote knowledge and understanding of students about information exchange and peculiarities of communication using media, as well as peculiarities of different media and discussion about them in the history of media theory. To form competence of students in media theory to understand the development of media and its effects on culture and society. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | History of communication and history of media theory. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Role of writing in culture. Plato, Derrida. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Technologies, society and culture. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Books and reading nowadays. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Critical ideas. Marxism, postmodernism, feminism and their effect on the development of media theory. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | New media in the media theoretical aspect. Presentations of final papers. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | To read required readings, to prepare and present an overview of theories created by two authors, to write an essay on a current problem in modern media theory, to prepare for examination. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Attendance of lectures and seminars, quality of answers, level of understanding and critical view (20%), depth of understanding of presented theories (10%), critical analysis (10%), accuracy of the overview (10%), argumentation and formulation of conclusions (10%), perceptibility and accuracy of graphical and visual presentation (10%), answers to questions and discussion during the examination (30%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Oral) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On successful course completion master students understand the role of media in public life and culture, know the development of theoretical thought about media, their importance and use traditions. | ||||||||
| Skills: | On successful course completion students critically analyse media theoretical texts and insights from the historical and modern aspect, analyse functioning of media in its specifics, able to analyse communication from the point of view of specifics of media. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | On successful course completion students independently orient in approaches and theories, which allow to better understand modern mediated communication, as well as are able to critically analyse the role of media in the history of society and culture. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Aronson, S.H. Bell's Electrical Toy, What's the Use? The Sociology of Early Telehone Usage. In Pool, Ithiel de Sola (ed): The Social Impact of the Telephone. 2nd ed. - Cambridge, Massaachusetts and London, 1977. | ||||||||
| 2 | Flusser, Vilém. Towards a philosophy of photography. Reaktion Books, 2013. | ||||||||
| 3 | Brecht, B. The Radio as an Apparatus of the Communication. In Semiotext(e), Neil Strauss (ed.), 16, VI, 1, New York, 1993 | ||||||||
| 4 | Baudrillard, J., & Maclean, M. The masses: The implosion of the social in the media. New Literary History, 577-589. 1985. | ||||||||
| 5 | Bynum, T.W. Norbert Wiener’s Vision: The Impact of “the Automatic Age” on Our Moral Lives // | ||||||||
| 6 | Enzensberger, H.M. Constituents of a Theory of the Media. In Electronic Culture. Technology and Visual Representation, Timothy Druckrey (ed.), New York, 1996 | ||||||||
| 7 | McLuhan, M. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. 3.ed. - Gingko Press, 2003 | ||||||||
| 8 | Régis Debray, What is Mediology? | ||||||||
| 9 | Kellner, D. Baudrillard: A New McLuhan? // | ||||||||
| 10 | Luhman, N. The Reality of Mass Media. - Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. | ||||||||
| 11 | The Media: An Introduction. 2.ed. - ed. By A.Briggs and P.Cobley. - London, New York: Pearson Ltd., 2002. | ||||||||
| 12 | Ong, W. Orality and Literacy. The Technologizing of the Word. 2.ed. - London, Routledge, 2002. | ||||||||
| 13 | Platons. Faidrs.//Dialogi un vēstules. - Rīga: Zinātne, 1999. | ||||||||
| 14 | Stiegler, B. Relational Ecology and the Digital Pharmakon. | ||||||||
| 15 | Kittler. F. Towards an Onthology of Media. in: Theory, Culture and Society. Vol. 26, No. 2-3, 2009, p. 23-31 | ||||||||
| 16 | Virilio P. Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm! | ||||||||
| 17 | Kress, G. Literacy in the New Media Age. – London: Routledge, 2003. | ||||||||
| 18 | Hayles, N. Katherine. How we became posthuman: Virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics. University of Chicago Press, 2008. | ||||||||
| 19 | Couldry, Nick. "Does ‘the media’have a future?." European journal of communication 24.4 (2009): 437-449. | ||||||||
| 20 | Postman, Neil. "The disappearance of childhood." Childhood Education 61.4 (1985): 286-293. | ||||||||
| 21 | Haraway, Donna Jeanne (1991). "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century". Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. Routledge | ||||||||
| 22 | Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” Film Theory and Criticism : Introductory Readings. Eds. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999: 833-44. | ||||||||
| 23 | McRobbie, Angela. "Young women and consumer culture: An intervention." Cultural studies 22.5 (2008): 531-550. | ||||||||
| 24 | Hepp A, Hjarvard S, Lundby K. Mediatization: theorizing the interplay between media, culture and society. Media, culture & society. 2015 Mar;37(2):314-24. | ||||||||
| 25 | Malabou C. Plasticity at the dusk of writing: Dialectic, destruction, deconstruction. Columbia University Press; 2010. | ||||||||
| 26 | McQuail, Denis, and Mark Deuze. McQuail’s media and mass communication theory. Sage, 2020. | ||||||||
| 27 | Fuchs, Christian. Social media: A critical introduction. Sage, 2021. | ||||||||
| 28 | Kovač, M., Phillips, A., van der Weel, A., & Wischenbart, R. (2019). What is a Book?. Publishing research quarterly, 35(3), 313-326. | ||||||||
