Master 2023/2024

Mentor's Seminar "Media Theories and Student's Individual Trajectory"

Type: Compulsory course (Critical Media Studies)

Area of studies: Media Communications

Delivered by: Institute of Media

Where: Faculty of Creative Industries

When: 2 year, 1-3 module

Mode of studies: distance learning

Online hours: 25

Open to: everyone

Instructors: Kamilla Chukasheva, Oleg Dmitriev, Ilya Kiriya

Master’s programme: Критические медиаисследования

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 12

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Mentor's Seminar "Media Theories and Student's Individual trajectory" allows to build an understanding of media theories and provides to the students core understanding of the place critical media studies occupies among other disciplinary fields and within media studies in particular. Such understanding will help students to build their own education trajectory by choosing disciplines from other fields of studies.

Learning Objectives

• Provide core mapping of media theories and their connection with others disciplinary fields
• Able to make choice of disciplines for individual study plan on the basis of the relevance to the critical media studies field
• Help students to establish their scientific interests in their research projects and other fields

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Understand core principles of the individual learning trajectories
• Distinguishes between critical and uncritical media theories
• Distinguishes between different approaches of study media and able to connect choosen disciplines to such approaches
• Understands limits of using empirical approaches to study of media and define borderlines between critical studies and empirical sociology approach
• Use sign and myth as categories for analysis of media texts
• Criticize techno-determinist vision of media
• Distinguish between different fields of micro-sociology, ethnography etc. and their media extensions

Course Contents

• Introduction into the indivialization of learning trajectories
• General mapping of the media studies field
• Empiric-functionalist approaches to study media
• Critical group of theories (basics)
• Linguistic group of theories
• Techno-determinism and technological innovation
• Active media user: ethnography and cultural studies perspective

Assessment Elements

• Reflection paper about your personal education trajectory during the 1st year of education
  This reflection paper should help student to reflect on his own educational trajectory within the context of "Critical media studies" program. In such short paper student have to demonstrate his/her knowledge of the context of the program and his/her ability to reflect on individual education trajectory.
• Reflection paper on your research project
  In this reflection paper student should respond on the following question: How the individual study plan of student and the choice of disciplines he made contributed to his research project on the program?
• Reflection paper about elective courses trajectory

Interim Assessment

• 2022/2023 4th module
  1 * Reflection paper about your personal education trajectory during the 1st year of education
• 2023/2024 2nd module
  1 * Reflection paper about elective courses trajectory
• 2023/2024 3rd module
  1 * Reflection paper on your research project

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Communication power, Castells, M., 2011
• Communication Theory and Research, edited by Denis McQuail, et al., SAGE Publications, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=334341.
• Critical theory : selected essays, Horkheimer, M., 1982
• Dayan, D., & Katz, E. (1992). Media Events. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=282693
• Dialectic of Enlightenment : philosophical fragments, Horkheimer, M., 2002
• Diffusion of innovations, Rogers, E. M., 2003
• Discourse analysis as theory and method, Jorgensen, M., 2014
• Katz, E., Dayan, D., & Motyl, P. (1981). Communications in the 21st Century: In Defense of Media Events. Organizational Dynamics, 10(2), 68–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/0090-2616(81)90033-4
• Liebes, T., & Katz, E. (1986). Dallas and Genesis: Primordiality and Seriality in Popular Culture.
• McCombs, M., Shaw, D., & Weaver, D. (2014). New Directions in Agenda-Setting Theory and Research. Mass Communication & Society, 17(6), 781–802. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2014.964871
• McQuail's mass communication theory, McQuail, D., 2010
• Petrova, V. I., & Петрова, В. И. (2017). Смешанное обучение в вузе на основе реализации индивидуальной траектории обучения при формировании компетентности в области применения информационных и коммуникационных технологий ; Blended Learning in University Based on Realization of Individual Learning Pathway in Formation of Competence in Sphere of Information and Communication Technology Application. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.FE27CAC6
• Smith, Bruce Lannes, and Harold D. Lasswell. Propaganda, Communication and Public Opinion, Princeton University Press, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4071105.
• The rise of the network society, Castells, M., 2010
• Trends in global higher education : tracking an academic revolution, Altbach, P. G., 2010
• Understanding media : the extensions of man, McLuhan, M., 2002

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Harold D. Lasswell. (2018). Politics: Who Gets What, When, How. [N.p.]: Papamoa Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2202930

Authors

• Kiriia Ilia VADIMOVICH