NEWS SOCIOLOGY

EILF409

Course Code: EILF409
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 5

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Bachelor's Degree

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Realize the ideology in the way mainstream media handles the news.
Understand what the news includes and excludes.
Detect the factors concerning represantion, ideology and power when he reads/watches the news.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

This course focuses on the history of journalism, the journalists as professionals, the news production in the neoliberal era, news-reality relationship, ideology, power and language in news texts.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Course Contents and Modalities.
2^nd Week	Mainstream Communication Theories and News Production Process.
3^rd Week	Critical Communication Theories and News Production Process.
4^th Week	Professionalism Ideology of Journalism and Press Freedom.
5^th Week	The Political Economy of News Production: Ownership and Control.
6^th Week	Post-Fordism, Flexible Specialization, and the Reporter.
7^th Week	Economic and Technological Convergence and News Production
8^th Week	Midterm
9^th Week	Meritocracy in Newsroom, Cultural and Economical Capital of the Journalists.
10^th Week	News Value and Ratings.
11^th Week	Digitalization, News, and Reality.
12^th Week	News, Ideology, Power, and Language.
13^th Week	Truth and Post-Truth
14^th Week	Artificial Intelligence and News Production and Readership

Recommended or Required Reading

Bourdieu, Pierre, (1979), Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste: Routledge: NY.
İnal, A. (1996) Haberi Okumak. İstanbul Temuçi Yayınları.
Gans, Herbert, (1979), Deciding What?s News, The Medill School of Journalism: NY.
Schudson, Michael, (1978), Discovering the News, Sage: Ny.
Smiciklas, M. (2012). The Power of Visual Storytelling
Sennett, Richard, (1998), The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism, W. W. Norton & Company: NY.
Thomas, R.2022. Digital Jouranlism:an Overview Perpective:Journal of Mass Communication and Jourmalism, 12 (4):1-2.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers
Project

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	40
Total(%)		40
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		60
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam	1	1	1
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work
Preparation for Final exam	1	20	20
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam	1	15	15
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	1	1
Homework	14	5	70
Total Work Load			149
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			4.96
ECTS Credit of the Course			5

Language of Instruction

English

Work Placement(s)

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