INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND MEDIA

PSIR567

Course Code: PSIR567
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree Without Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Professor Kıvılcım Romya Bilgin

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Develop a different perspective and question current events with a different view.
Understand that nothing is at it seems at first glance.
Comprehend that media can become a means of propaganda and power.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

No recommended optional programme components.

Course Description

According to Noam Chomsky violence is the tool of dictatorship, whereas media is the tool of democracy. Starting with the discourse which refers to the significance of the media, this course will shed a light on how media is used by politicians and other agenda setters for the construction (constructivism) of the reality. Moreover, in the course, topics such as media and ethics, the responsibilities of media and discrimination will be widely covered.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	What is Communication? What is Media? What is Mass Media?
2^nd Week	From the First Newspaper to Cyber Media
3^rd Week	International Relations Theories: Realism, Liberalism, Constructivism
4^th Week	Media Theories I: "Hypodermic" Model, Functionalism, Conflict Theory
5^th Week	Media Teories II: Symbolic Interactionism, Moral Panic Theory and Postmodern Theory
6^th Week	Media Analysis I: Who Says What on Which Channel to Whom with What Effect and Why? Code, Encoding and Decoding
7^th Week	Media Analysis II: Television News
8^th Week	Media Analiysis III: "Rally Round the Flag Syndrom" and Media as a Means of Propaganda
9^th Week	Media Analysis IV: Media as a Means of Resistance
10^th Week	Media Analysis V: War and Peace in Media
11^th Week	Case Study I: The 1991 Gulf War and CNN
12^th Week	Case Study II: The 2003 Iraq Occupation and Al-Jazeera
13^th Week	Case Study III: Media's Trial with September 11
14^th Week	Case Study IV: Media's Trial with the Government in Turkey

Recommended or Required Reading

John J. Macionis and Ken Plummer: Sociology. A Global Introduction, Third Edition, 2005.
Cynthia Boaz: "War and Foreign Policy Framing in International Media", Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 17, 2005.
Cynthia Boaz: "War and Peace in the Media", Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 17, 2005.
David Miller (ed.) Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq, London: Pluto Press, 2004.
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber: Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, New York: Penguin, 2003.
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent, New York: Pantheon, 1988.
Denis McQuail: Mass Communication Theory: An Introduction, 4th edition, 2000.
Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney: The Global Media, 2001.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers
Presentation
Other

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Assignment	3	40
Project	1	30
Total(%)		70
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		70
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		30
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	4	56
Preparation for Final exam	1	52	52
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework	3	35	105
Project	1	50	50
Total Work Load			308
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.26
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3
K1	X	X
K2
K3
K4
K5
K6
K7	X	X	X
K8	X	X	X