Course Information

Semester	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	T+P+L	Credit	Number of ECTS Credits
6	GİT368	Sociology Of Communication	3+0+0	3	4

Course Details

Language of Instruction	Turkish
Level of Course Unit	Bachelor's Degree
Department / Program	Visual Communication Design
Mode of Delivery	Face to Face
Type of Course Unit	Elective
Objectives of the Course	This course aims to explain the relationship between media and society. It emphasizes media’s role in social and political change, defines key theoretical approaches to mass media with a historical standpoint, briefly introduces current debates and media research.
Course Content	Through the semester, topics such as relations between mass media and modernity, political economy of media and ownership structure, media depictions of social groups regarding their class, race and gender, ideology, new media, encoding and decoding will be elaborated respectively. Class participation, joining critical debates are highly encouraged.
Course Methods and Techniques
Prerequisites and co-requisities	None
Course Coordinator	None
Name of Lecturers	Asist Prof. Ayşe Deniz Ünan Göktan
Assistants	None
Work Placement(s)	No

Recommended or Required Reading

Resources	Giddens, A., Sutton, PW. (2013). Sosyoloji 7.Edisyon. İstanbul: Kırmızı. Gökalp, E, Ergül, H., Cangöz, İ. (2010). Türkiye’de yoksulluğun ve yoksulların ana-akım basında temsili. Sosyoloji Araştırmaları Dergisi, 13(1),145-182. İnceoğlu, İ., Akçalı, E. (2018). TÜSİAD televizyon dizilerinde toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliği araştırması projesi. İstanbul: CB Basımevi. Sağlam, E.B., Boyacıoğlu Öğün, A., Gelgeç Bakacak, A. (Ed.) (2018). Sosyoloji. Ankara: Siyasal. Laughey, D. (2010). Medya çalışmaları: teoriler ve yaklaşımlar (Çev. A.Toprak). İstanbul: Kalkedon. Adorno, T.W. (2011). Kültür endüstrisi kültür yönetimi (Çev. N. Ülner, M. Tüzel, E. Gen). İstanbul: İletişim. İnci, A. (2006). Asmalımescit’te kültür endüstri destekli yer değişim. D.Behar, T.İslam (Ed.), İstanbul’da soylulaşma: eski kentin yeni sahipleri içinde (s.99-112). İstanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları.
	Course reader, ppt slides.

Course Category

Social Sciences

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Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Activities are given in detail in the section of "Assessment Methods and Criteria" and "Workload Calculation"

Assessment Methods and Criteria

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration	Total Work Load
Course Duration	14	3	42
Hours for off-the-c.r.stud	14	5	70
Presentation	1	2	2
Mid-terms	1	2	2
Final examination	1	2	2
Total Work Load			Number of ECTS Credits 4 118

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

No	Learning Outcomes
1	Explain core sociological concepts regarding communication studies.
2	Define diverse research methods in sociology and explain the basic steps of conducting a sociological research.
3	Explain the developmental stages of media studies in a historical perspective.
4	Compare and contrast main theoretical approaches to media- society relationship and critically analyze them.
5	Define how diverse groups are represented in the media and the role of media representations in reproducing social inequalities.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Topics	Study Materials	Materials
1	Introduction to Sociology
2	Defining communication and its societal functions
3	Sociology of communication - core concepts
4	Modernity and the media: Media effects approach
5	Media effects continued - Cultivation theory
6	Frankfurt School - Culture Industry
7	Technological determinism
8	Midterm
9	Communication, globalization and media ownership structure
10	Discourse, ideology and representation
11	Discourse, ideology and representation continued.
12	Moral panics and the media
13	New media
14	Encoding- decoding
15	Overview

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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