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As an introduction to theories of media and communications this course aims to offer to students a critical exposition of the explanatory frameworks provided by a range of different perspective. On the basis of an historical introduction it focuses on the theoretical contributions of major schools (namely, political economy, critical theory, structural and post structural approaches and cultural studies). The course aims a systematic expositions of the key concepts of each approach placed in its historical context and offers a critical and comparative perspective to assess the strengths and weakness of each theoretical framework.

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This course focuses on the relation among information technology of culture and aims to help better assess the opportunities and challenges afforded by the new information technologies. Comparing the evolution of communication technologies from a historical perspective and fostering rigorous critical inquiry into the social, cultural, economic and political impacts of information technologies the course will enable students to anticipate the key factors and identify the decision points that will influence the shape and impact of tomorrow's communication networks.

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The object of this course is to examine the profession of journalism in its relations to other socio-economic and political actors. The birth of journalism in an historical context and the relationship between the grand sociological theories and media theories will be studied. The relationship between media atmosphere (which consists of the level of democratic development, characteristics of state and government in a given country), nature of the media ownership and civil society, and the practice of journalism will be discussed. It will be argued that media are a constitutive element in the power structure of societies. Professional unions and existence of a professional ideology among journalists will be two major topics. Journalists' role in reproducing the dominant ideas and values will be discussed. The course also aims to develop a sociological model to understand the functioning of the media.

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The aim of this course is to construct a theoretical perspective for the analysis of media texts. For this purpose, theoretical approaches of Barthes, Bakhtin, Volosinov, Hodge, Kress, Fowler, van Dijk will be read and their methodologies will be disscussed. The course will focus on language and representation, social construction of media narratives, semiotic structure of different media, reading and signification, with a special emphasis on culture and power. Different media genres including news, TV series, serials, continuous serials, talk shows, reality shows, advertisements etc. will be analysed focusing on their narrative and semiotic characteristics.

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Recent years have tremendous changes to both broadcasting and telecommunications structures across the word. Turkey was not an exception. These changes have usually been attributed to technological developments by the business and governments while changing political strategies towards technological and broadcasting issues are almost ignored. This course will examine these strategies, such as privatization and deregulation with "new communications and information technologies" and stress their convergence. Following a theoretical assessment of the policy implications of the twin processes of technological developments and privatization/deregulation in Turkey, the course will explore history of communications regulation in Turkey and discuss policy issues and tensions in the formulation of policy.

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The course examines the key ethical issues confronting media professionals, journalists. What are the critical ethical considerations to which journalists need to be sensitive during the practice of reporting? is the major question of the course. Topics to be covered include: What is ethics and professional ethics? Is there an ethics for journalists? Are un-ethical practices due to personal or structural reasons? What is the relationship between media and democracy? Ethical dimensions of infotainment. Ethical dilemmas in war and election reporting. Privacy, sexism, plagiarism and reporting on minorities. Ethical responsibilities in medical reports. Duty-based ethics versus virtue based ethics. Rights and responsibilities of journalists. Codes of conduct in different countries. Emerging ethical concerns in the new electronic media, etc. The course will emphasize discussion, debate and analysis of specific concrete cases from the international and Turkish practice of journalism.

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Recent changes in the structures of the media organizations together with the newly developed technology has also brought important changes to the content of the broadcasting journalism. This course will aim top give students a critical understanding of these new broadcasting trends practiced today in media industry.

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Cinema Studies is a broad field that takes as its subject matter the interdisciplinary study of various aspects of the institution of cinema. Cinema Studies encompasses the studies of the modes of production and distribution of films on the one side, and the various loci and nature of the viewing experience on the other. The two sides of this process are intermediated by the interference of social, political, and cultural factors that make history, of which the films produce a certain specific representation. In addition, this course will selectively focus on at least one period, one national cinema, one genre, one auteur and one film theory.

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The course will be concerned in the appropriation of the "audio-visual" world: the end of the classical attitudes towards imagination and dominance of the "audio-visual" in the modern world, in culture, education and politics, up to the birth of television. Imagination now is a requirement to go beyond the world of images, a socio-political faculty, which has to be evolved critically. Such a valorization of the faculty to imagine is not the way in which the media today are organized and the mainstream cinema is practiced. The course will be a critique of images and clichés, which are constantly bombarding the actual human beings.

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The objective is to take an in-depth look at the relationship between media, the political system, and the public at large.

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this course focuses on documentary genres.

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The theme of this course is to develop the perception and the visual experience of the students through making a videographic iconography of Ankara, supposedly the actual city in which they live. There will be a collective exercise of video-action, oriented towards the re-constitution of this urban iconography, which we believe is also part of the generalized popular imagination and televisual experience. Ankara would probably be the first step to such a project, which can be formally expanded to other urban spaces, since it is a newly established, republican city with rich symbolic and iconographic spatio-temporal details.

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This graduate course is designed for understanding the new media technologies and new narrative forms which surround us today, as well as the cultural conditions they establish before us. It starts with a critical analysis of the social transformation that we call postmodernism today, relates this structural transformation with the new media technologies, and then explicates the new ontological conditions brought forth by these new media technologies. What follows is a further discussion of the constitutive elements of the new narrative forms presented by these new media technologies-such as virtuality, hypertextuality,non-linearity, interactivity, rhizomatics and technological embodiment. Final direction of the course is to evaluate on the economic and political dimensions of such notions and theoretical openings they provide.

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This course aims to provide students with basic knowledge on documentary cinema. The famous and never-ending discussion on the definition of documentary will be the starting point. This discussion will be extended to other debates such as the problematization of truth in documentary, ethical issues in documentary filmmaking, sound as a constitutive component of documentary, and new forms of documentary filmmaking within new media.

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Comparative analysis Western and Eastern mass media discourse characteristics from ethnocultural perspective: dimensions of cultural difference concerning representation of time and space, models of the self and traditions of signification.

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This course deals with the representations of the Mediterranean in cinema and literature. By Mediterranean is meant something more than the mere sea, it refers to an entire human geography that constitutes a world in itself with its rhythms of daily life and culture as put by the eminent French historian Fernand Braudel. Mediterranean cinema and literature is the corpus of cinematic and literary institutions and practices out of which emerge the representations of Mediterranean. It includes not only the native locals but also the foreigners and expatriates who contribute to the production of the Mediterranean image(s).

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This course aims to introduce graduate students to comparative perspectives in media studies. Course participants will explore some approaches in the media theory, basic terms and concepts related to communicative systems as fundamentals of more comprehensive analysis of various levels of communicative actions in terms of domestic and international systems in related to cultural and political contexts. An other aspect of this course is to make applied studies on the media systems particularly by using content analysis and case studies.

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This course will introduce students to the study of myths. A myth is the most ancient idea of the world. It has been transformed through different cultures throughout time and still exists in many forms of modern culture. The goals of the course are to compare ancient myths to current myths and its forms: legend and fairy tale; to examine how different societies adapt myth to express their own meanings; to understand how myths support traditional values.

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As an introduction to theories of media and communications this course aims to offer to students a critical exposition of the explanatory frameworks provided by a range of different perspective. On the basis of an historical introduction it focuseson the theoritical contributions of major schools (namely, political economy, critical theory, structural and post structural approaches and cultural studies). The course aims a systemic expositions of the key concepts of each approach placed in its historical context and offers a critical and comparative perspective to assess the strenghts and weakness of each theoretical framework.

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The course examines the proffesion of journalism in its relations to other socio-economic and political actors and discusses the key ethical issues confronting media professionals,journalists. The relationship between media atmosphere (which consists of the level of democratic development, characteristics of state and government in a given country),nature of the media ownership and civil society ,and the practice of journalism will be discussed.The course argues that media ethics cannot be understood without refering to such socilogical dimensions of the proffession.Topics to be covered include: what are the critical ethical considerations to which journalists need to be sensetive during the practice of reporting. What is ethics and professional ethics.Is there an ethics for journalists .What is the relationship between media and democracy .Ethical dilemmas in war and election reporting.Privacy,sexism,plagiarism and reporting on minorities.Emerging ethical concerns in the new electronic media ,etc.The course will emphasize discussion, debate and analysis of specific concrete cases from the international and Turkish practice of journalism.

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The course is designed to provide students with analytical tools to conceptualise the field of cultural practices. It presents a critical review of contemporary theoretical positions developed by the Frankfurt School,neo-Gramscian Marxism,Bakhtin,de Certeau,Bourdieu,Lefebvre,Debord, etc. A brief introduction on the theory of ideology, with which most students are likely to be unfamilliar, will be made since it constitutes the basic analytical premise of cultural studies.Special attention will be paid to the interplay of ideolgy, culture and power, the trans -formation(s)of the field of cultural practices , and the contestatory character of popular or mass-mediated cultural forms. Among the themes to be explored are the elite/mass or high/popular culture binaryism, the dichotomies of domination versus resistance and opposition versus ideological incorporation, the pracmatics of everday life, and the culture of the society of spectacle. Within this context,various popular or mass-mediated cultural forms,texts and narratives (e.g. popular cinema ,popular music , televised sports , and television serials) will also be referred to.

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The course introduces students to film criticism and analysis. Employing various theoretical approaches to the study of film, it analyzes a number of films from world cinema selected on the basis of a particular theme or mode of cinematic representation. The module also offers students the opportunity to write critical essays on the films screened for the class. The focus of this semesters course will be on the cinematic representations of social classes. It examines the ways in which class relations and encounters are represented in a group of films selected from different contexts around the world. It provides students with conceptual tools to analyze the films which, even though they were made in relatively different contexts, share a common concern with thematizing various experiences of class under the conditions of late capitalism. References will also be made to the literature on social theory and social history as well as film studies.

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This course is the second part of a two-course sequence in film criticism and analysis. Employing various theoretical approaches to the study of film, it analyzes a number of Turkish films selected on the basis of a particular theme or mode of cinematic representation. It also offers students the opportunity to write critical essays on the film screened for the class. The focus of this semester s course will be on the representations of social classes in Turkish cinema. It will examine the ways in which class relations and encounters are represented in a group of films belonging to different periods of film history and genres. References will also be made to the literature on Turkish social and cultural history.

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This course is an introduction to the study of mediated communication in a digital age. It surveys the major topics in the media and cultural studies, and introduces students to various perspectives in this field. As the first part of a two-course sequence, the purpose pf the course is to provide an overview of the field of media and cultural studies, which would be very helpful for students to get familiar with the basic concepts , major approaches, and issues of debate in this field.

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As the second part of a two-course sequence, this course is an introduction to the study of mediated communication in a digital age. It surveys the major topics in the media and cultural studies, and introduces students to various perspectives in this field. The purpose pf the course is to provide an overview of the field of media and cultural studies, which would be very helpful for the students to get familiar with the basic concepts, major approaches, and issues of debate in this field.

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As members of contemporary societies we share a general view that the role of media in modern life is significantly increasing. However, the nature and the extent of media influence in society is a point of important debate in scholarly accounts as well as popular commentary, casial conversations and daily experiences.

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The course provides students with a conceptual framework for analyzing the role of the media in political and ideological processes. It presents a critical review of the theoretical approaches to the political and ideological effects of the mass media. Among the topics to be covered are the ideological incorporation of the masses through the mass media, the formation of the so-called public opinion and public sphere,the spectacularisation of political practice, and the democratic or political implications of the new media. The course also examines the role of the media in Turkish political landscape.

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