Магистратура
2021/2022
История и теория медиа
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Статус:
Курс обязательный (Производство новостей в международной среде)
Направление:
42.04.05. Медиакоммуникации
Кто читает:
Институт медиа
Где читается:
Факультет креативных индустрий
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Прогр. обучения:
Производство новостей в международной среде
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
4
Контактные часы:
60
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course develops student’s knowledge in field of media through knowledge of relationship between social development in general and media institutions and theoretical reflection on that relationship from the point of view of different theories of classic media studies. As a result student become able to understand the historical process of media development in relationship with the history in general and to apply classic media theories to the analysis of contemporary phenomena in field of media.
Learning Objectives
- To provide necessary orientation in field of historical development of media as social institution, as symbolic and content evolution and as technical means of communication and its evolution
- To provide knowledge in field of connection between basic historical process and history of media including history of devices, platforms and mediums
- To make students able to orient among different classic theories of media, to classify them
- To provide knowledge of different theories of media and its essential texts
- To provide analytical framework to analyze contemporary phenomena such as social media, mass-self communication, blogs, fake news etc
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Be able to categorize and organize different periods in media history
- Be able to classify main theories of media and build maps of theories
- Be able to identify different approaches to media analysis
- Be able to identify main periods in development of media and society
- Be able to identify main theories of media
- Be able to identify the role of media in national identity formation
- Be able to know essential texts in field of media theory
- Be able to trace the evolution of content regulation apparatus
- Be able to understand the role of media in political and economic fields across different political regimes
- Be able to use media theories to analyze phenomena of contemporary society
Course Contents
- Basic categories of the course
- General history of media as social institution
- History of media content regulation
- History of mediums
- General classification of media theories
- Empiric-functionalist group of theories
- Critical group of theories
- Linguistic group of theories
- Microsociology of media
- Technical innovation as communication
- Technodeterminist social theories of media
- Theories of media reception
- Political economy of media
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Brown, B. R. (2003). Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Book). Critical Sociology (Brill Academic Publishers), 29(2), 274–276. https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205030290020805
- Dahl, R. A. (2006). On Political Equality. New Haven: Yale University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=188013
- Schiller, H. I. (1991). Culture, Inc : The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=169118
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Evrard, A. Y., & Appadurai, A. (2017). Modernity at Large : Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation. London: Macat Library. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1564340
- North, D. C., Weingast, B. R., & Wallis, J. J. (2009). Violence and Social Orders : A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=273785