ECTS - Media and Politics
Media and Politics (KAM429) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Media and Politics | KAM429 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| None |
| Course Language | Turkish |
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| Course Type | N/A |
| Course Level | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer, Team/Group. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | This course will introduce students to basic political concepts related to media. It will enable students to develop analytical skills in examining the media and will help them understand the relationship between media and politics. The course will also enable students to explore different forms of media and new technologies, making them familiar with the role 'new media' plays in global political processes. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Media-political authority relation. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Defining the media: Different Views on the Media | Hall, S. (1999). İdeolojinin Yeniden Keşfi: Medya Çalışmalarında baskı Altında Tutulanın Geri Dönüşü, içinde Mehmet Küçük (ed.), Medya, İktidar, İdeoloji, Ankara: Ark. Oates, S. (2008) “Introduction”. Introduction to Media and Politics içinde. London: SAGE, 1-21 |
| 3 | Democracy, Public Space and Freedom of the Press | Meyer, T. (2002). Medya Demokrasisi: Medya Siyaseti Nasıl Sömürgeleştirir?, İstanbul: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 21-62. Aydın, S. (2016). “Medya ve İnsan Hakları: Bir Varoluş Problemi”, içinde Nevin Yıldız Tahincioğlu (ed.), Yamuk Hakikat, Ankara: Ütopya Yayınevi, 7-22. Ek okumalar Kaya, R. (2009). İktidar Yumağı, Ankara: İmge Kitabevi, 82-110. |
| 4 | The Democratic Role of the Media | Keane, J. (1992). Medya ve Demokrasi, Haluk Şahin (çev), İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, 19-60. Mazzoleni, G.& Schulz,W. (2009). Politikanın Medyatikleşmesi: Demokrasiye Bir Meydan Okuyuş mu?, içinde Fatih Keskin, Pınar Özdemir (ed.), Halkla İlişkiler Üzerine Disiplinlerarası Bir Alanın Yönelimleri, Ankara: Dipnot. |
| 5 | Media and mass communication theories: Traditional and Critical Approaches | Yaylagül, L. (2006). Kitle İletişim Kuramları, Ankara: Dipnot Yayınları. Ek okumalar McNair, B. (2007). An Introduction to Political Communication, London: Routledge. |
| 6 | Media and Gender | Candemir, D. M. (2020). “2000’lerde Feminizm: Türkiye’de Feminist Hareketler ve Dijital Aktivizm”, Modern Türkiye de Siyasi Düşünce Feminizm içinde, 10, İstanbul: İletişim. Çelenk, S. (2010). “Kadınların Medyada Temsili ve Etik Sorunlar”, Televizyon Haberciliğinde Etik, Editörler: Bülent Çaplı ve Hakan Tuncel, Ankara: Yayınevi yok. |
| 7 | Media as a Power Institution | Chomsky, N. (2004). Medya Denetimi, İstanbul: Everest Yayınları. Medya Raporu İnceleme: https://halagazeteciyiz.net/category/raporlar/aylik-medya-raporu/ Ek Okumalar Durna, T., Binark & M. Bayraktutan. (2020). İletişim Hakkı ve Yeni Medya: Tehditler ve Olanaklar, Ankara: UMAG |
| 8 | Midterm | |
| 9 | The Personalization of Politics and Americanization and Entertainment | Bora, T. (2010). “Enteltainment”, Sol, Sinizm, Pragmatizm içinde. İstanbul: İletişim, 229-248. Aelst, V., Scheafer, T., & Stanyer, J. (2012). “The Personalization of Mediated Political Communication: A Review of Concepts, Operationalizations and Key Findings”, 203-220. |
| 10 | Political Advertising and Propaganda | Wernick, A. (1996). Promosyon Kültürü: Reklam, İdeoloji ve Sembolik Anlam, Ankara: Bilim ve Sanat Yayınları, 189-233. Lazarsfeld, P. L. & Merton, R. K. (1949). “Studies in Radio and Film Propaganda,” Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences 6, 58-79. Reprinted in: Robert K. Merton (ed.). 1968. Social Theory and Social Structure. New York: Free Press, 563-582. Ek okumalar: Özkan, N. (2019). Kahramanın Yolculuğu, İstanbul: Mediacat Özkan, N. Seçim Kazandıran Kampanyalar, İstanbul: MediaCat. |
| 11 | Political Communication and Post-Truth Debates | Taş, O. & Taş, T. (2018) Post-Hakikat Çağında Sosyal Medyada Yalan Haber ve Suriyeli Mülteciler Sorunu, İletişim Dergisi, 29: 183-207. Horne, B.D., & Adali, S. (2017). This Just In: Fake News Packs a Lot in Title, Uses Simpler, Repetitive Content in Text Body, More Similar to Satire than Real News. ArXiv, abs/1703.09398. Ek okumalar Lee McIntyre (2018) Post-Truth (MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series). USA: MIT Press. |
| 12 | Media in Turkey: Alternative Approaches | Adaklı, G. (2014). Neoliberalizm ve Medya: Dünya'da ve Türkiye'de Medya Endüstrisinin Dönüşümü. Mülkiye Dergisi, 34 (269), 67-84. Alankuş S. (2008). “Türkiye’de ‘Başka’ Bir Demokrasi için ‘Başka’ Bir Medya ve Habercilik. İçinde Uygun Adım Medya. İncilay Cangöz (der.). İstanbul: Ayraç Yayınları, ss.177-227. Ayan, V., M. (2021). Gençlerle Baş Başa: Habercilik ve Medya, İstanbul: Yordam Kitap. |
| 13 | Political Communication in the Digital Age | Bayraktutan, G , Binark, M , Çomu, T , Doğu, B , İslamoğlu, G , Aydemir, A . (2014). Siyasal İletişim Sürecinde Sosyal Medya ve Türkiye’de 2011 Genel Seçimlerinde Twitter Kullanımı. Bilig, (68), 59-96. Bimber, B. (2014). Digital Media in the Obama Campaigns of 2008 and 2012: Adaptation to the Personalized Political Communication Environment, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 11:2, 130-150. Ek okuma Brian L. Ott (2017) The age of Twitter: Donald J. Trump and the politics of debasement, Critical Studies in Media Communication, 34:1, 59-68. |
| 14 | Evaluation |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. Hall, S. (1999). İdeolojinin Yeniden Keşfi: Medya Çalışmalarında baskı Altında Tutulanın Geri Dönüşü, içinde Mehmet Küçük (ed.), Medya, İktidar, İdeoloji, Ankara: Ark. |
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| 2. Oates, S. (2008) “Introduction”. Introduction to Media and Politics içinde. London: SAGE, 1-21 | |
| 3. Meyer, T. (2002). Medya Demokrasisi: Medya Siyaseti Nasıl Sömürgeleştirir?, İstanbul: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 21-62. | |
| 4. Kejanlıoğlu, B., D. (2004). “Medya Çalışmalarında Kamusal Alan Kavramı”, içinde Meral Özbek (ed.), Kamusal Alan, İstanbul: Hil Yay. | |
| 7. Keane, J. (1992). Medya ve Demokrasi, Haluk Şahin (çev), İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, 19-60. | |
| 8. Mazzoleni, G.& Schulz,W. (2009). Politikanın Medyatikleşmesi: Demokrasiye Bir Meydan Okuyuş mu?, içinde Fatih Keskin, Pınar Özdemir (ed.), Halkla İlişkiler Üzerine Disiplinlerarası Bir Alanın Yönelimleri, Ankara: Dipnot. | |
| 9. Yaylagül, L. (2006). Kitle İletişim Kuramları, Ankara: Dipnot Yayınları. | |
| 12. Candemir, D. M. (2020). “2000’lerde Feminizm: Türkiye’de Feminist Hareketler ve Dijital Aktivizm”, Modern Türkiye de Siyasi Düşünce Feminizm içinde, 10, İstanbul: İletişim. | |
| 13. Çelenk, S. (2010). “Kadınların Medyada Temsili ve Etik Sorunlar”, Televizyon Haberciliğinde Etik, Editörler: Bülent Çaplı ve Hakan Tuncel, Ankara: Yayınevi yok. | |
| 14. Chomsky, N. (2004). Medya Denetimi, İstanbul: Everest Yayınları. | |
| 15. Medya Raporu İnceleme: https://halagazeteciyiz.net/category/raporlar/aylik-medya-raporu/ | |
| 18. Bora, T. (2010). “Enteltainment”, Sol, Sinizm, Pragmatizm içinde. İstanbul: İletişim | |
| 20. Wernick, A. (1996). Promosyon Kültürü: Reklam, İdeoloji ve Sembolik Anlam, Ankara: Bilim ve Sanat Yayınları, 189-233. | |
| 21. Lazarsfeld, P. L. & Merton, R. K. (1949). “Studies in Radio and Film Propaganda,” Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences 6, 58-79. Reprinted in: Robert K. Merton (ed.). 1968. Social Theory and Social Structure. New York: Free Press, 563-582. | |
| 22. Aelst, V., Scheafer, T., & Stanyer, J. (2012). “The Personalization of Mediated Political Communication: A Review of Concepts, Operationalizations and Key Findings”, 203-220. | |
| 24. Taş, O. & Taş, T. (2018) Post-Hakikat Çağında Sosyal Medyada Yalan Haber ve Suriyeli Mülteciler Sorunu, İletişim Dergisi, 29: 183-207. | |
| 25. Horne, B.D., & Adali, S. (2017). This Just In: Fake News Packs a Lot in Title, Uses Simpler, Repetitive Content in Text Body, More Similar to Satire than Real News. ArXiv, abs/1703.09398. | |
| 27. Adaklı, G. (2014). Neoliberalizm ve Medya: Dünya'da ve Türkiye'de Medya Endüstrisinin Dönüşümü. Mülkiye Dergisi, 34 (269), 67-84. | |
| 28. Alankuş S. (2008). “Türkiye’de ‘Başka’ Bir Demokrasi için ‘Başka’ Bir Medya ve Habercilik. İçinde Uygun Adım Medya. İncilay Cangöz (der.). İstanbul: Ayraç Yayınları, ss.177-227. | |
| 29. Ayan, V., M. (2021). Gençlerle Baş Başa: Habercilik ve Medya, İstanbul: Yordam Kitap. | |
| 30. Bayraktutan, G , Binark, M , Çomu, T , Doğu, B , İslamoğlu, G , Aydemir, A . (2014). Siyasal İletişim Sürecinde Sosyal Medya ve Türkiye’de 2011 Genel Seçimlerinde Twitter Kullanımı. Bilig, (68), 59-96. | |
| 31. Bruce Bimber (2014) Digital Media in the Obama Campaigns of 2008 and 2012: Adaptation to the Personalized Political Communication Environment, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 11:2, 130-150. | |
| Other Sources | 5. Van Aelst, P, & Walgrave, S. (2017). “How Political Actors Use the Media”, New York: Palgrave. |
| 6. Aydın, S. (2016). “Medya ve İnsan Hakları: Bir Varoluş Problemi”, içinde Nevin Yıldız Tahincioğlu (ed.), Yamuk Hakikat, Ankara: Ütopya Yayınevi, 7-22. | |
| 10. McNair, B. (2007). An Introduction to Political Communication, London: Routledge. | |
| 11. McQuail, D. (2005). McQuail’s Mass Communication Theory, London: Thousand Oaks, Calif. | |
| 16. Durna, T., Binark & M. Bayraktutan. (2020). İletişim Hakkı ve Yeni Medya: Tehditler ve Olanaklar, Ankara: UMAG | |
| 17. Kaya, R. (2009). İktidar Yumağı, Ankara: İmge Kitabevi. | |
| 22. Özkan, N. (2019). Kahramanın Yolculuğu, İstanbul: Mediacat | |
| 23. Özkan, N. Seçim Kazandıran Kampanyalar, İstanbul: MediaCat. | |
| 26. Lee McIntyre (2018) Post-Truth (MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series). USA: MIT Press. | |
| 32. Brian L. Ott (2017) The age of Twitter: Donald J. Trump and the politics of debasement, Critical Studies in Media Communication, 34:1, 59-68. |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | 1 | 5 |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | - | - |
| Presentation | 1 | 15 |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 1 | 35 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 50 |
| Toplam | 4 | 105 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | 50 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 50 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | |
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| Major Area Courses | X |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Learning the basic concepts, theories and methods of political science and Public Administration and their use in the analysis of national and global political developments, cause-and-effect relations. | X | ||||
| 2 | Understanding how policies are created and implemented in real life at local, national, regional and/or global levels, recognizing important institutions and actors playing a role in these processes, knowing the functioning of Public Administration. | |||||
| 3 | Gaining a basic level of knowledge about other fields related to political science and public administration disciplines (such as International Relations, Sociology, Psychology, cultural studies, economics, law, history) and thus having an interdisciplinary understanding that takes into account the relations between different areas of life and establishes connections. | |||||
| 4 | Learning the use of quantitative and/or qualitative research techniques that can be used in the field of political science and public administration, software, hardware and/or technical tools that can be useful; gaining experience in designing and executing research projects to develop their application skills in this field. | |||||
| 5 | Developing the ability to be open-minded, avoid discrimination, and be sensitive and respectful to different points of view through the promotion of critical analytical thinking, intellectual discussion, and lifelong learning, thereby developing the skills to act jointly. | |||||
| 6 | Development of decision-making and initiative, job completion and time management competencies by understanding business ethics in public administration, politics and all related areas. | |||||
| 7 | Development of communication skills, oral and written expression, presentation techniques; learning the principles and procedures that are required to write an academic article on the disciplines of political science and public administration. | X | ||||
| 8 | Mastering English terminology in the disciplines of political science and Public Administration and acquiring a level of foreign language knowledge that can help to follow studies written in English, so that current political events and cases in various countries can be analyzed comparatively. | |||||
| 9 | Knowing both the Turkish and world political history in terms of periods, important milestones and actors, understanding the impact of the social-historical backgrounds of countries on current political and administrative issues. | |||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 7 | 98 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | |||
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 40 | 40 |
| Total Workload | 200 | ||