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Mass Communication and Sociology of Culture
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:26:12
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_153 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences | Target Audience: | Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Normunds Kozlovs | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Introduction to Communication Theories. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To introduce the basic paradigms and theories in mass communication and cultural sociology. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | 1. Paradigms – functional (Parsons, Giddens), conflict theory (Marxism, feminism), symbolic interactionism (Gofman). 2. The epistemological space of knowledge: semiology, Lefebvre. 3. Ideology and utopia: Gramsci hegemony, Mannheim sociology of knowledge. 4. Critical theory: Frankfurt School. 5. Cultural studies: subcultures. 6. Mass communication in the internet age: network theories at ctheory.net. | Lectures | 6.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 0.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Rosario Napolitano 1880 – 1944: Development of new technologies / Bigger participation of State (the role of media in the fascist era in Italy) 1945 – 1993: Post war period and regulation of media 1994 – 2011: Tangentopoli scandal and the beginning of Berlusconi’s era from 2011: The fragmentation of Italian media and the raise of populism (Five Star Movement and Lega Nord) | Lectures | 0.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Presentation. Study literature and other sources, attend sociologically and culturologically oriented events (seminars, discussions, exhibitions) according to the topics of the classes. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Ability to answer questions on basic theories in mass communication and cultural sociology. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students are able to name and outline theoretical approaches and key issues discussed within the framework of the paradigms and theories of mass communication and cultural sociology. | ||||||||
| Skills: | By orienting themselves in the paradigms and theories of mass communication and cultural sociology, students are prepared to do the following: • to critically and sociologically analyse cultural journalism products in different types of media; • to provide advice to media and public relations practitioners on the issues of paradigms and theory of mass communication and cultural sociology; • to produce critical articles and/or programs in the field of cultural journalism with a sociological conceptual arsenal. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | To have good knowledge of the paradigms of mass communication and cultural sociology + students are able to apply their knowledge in the field of cultural media and cultural journalism to develop independent, sustainable cultural journalism projects and to identify issues related to cultural journalism agenda, journalistic quality, audience, and media specificity. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964: Mcgrow-Hill Žans Bodrijārs, Simulakri un Simulācija, Rīga, 2000: Omnia Mea | ||||||||
| 2 | Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1.-10.lpp. http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf | ||||||||
| 3 | Paul Virilio, The Information Bomb, NY,2000: Verso Marginal Notes on Comments on Society of the Spectacle: Giorgio Agamben https://libcom.org/library/marginal-notes-comments-society-… | ||||||||
