Master
2024/2025
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
When:
1 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies:
distance learning
Open to:
students of one campus
Master’s programme:
Критические медиаисследования
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
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 on your research projectIn 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
- Reflection paper about elective courses trajectory
- Reflection paper about your personal education trajectory during the 1st year of educationThis 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.
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 2nd module1 * Reflection paper about elective courses trajectory
- 2024/2025 4th module1 * Reflection paper about your personal education trajectory during the 1st year of education
- 2025/2026 2nd module1 * Reflection paper about elective courses trajectory
- 2025/2026 3rd module1 * 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