Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
SOCIOLOGY OF NEWS UİLE319 5. Semester 2 + 0 2.0 6.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors Çiler DURSUN
Assistants
Goals The aim of the course is to introduce students to major issues and approaches to production and reception of news. It also offers a discussion on news production processes in the sociological context of news media.
Course Content The emergence of news as a specific kind of knowledge, its historical transformations are studied before exploring, by means of examples, news texts, their production processes and reception practices in the framework of liberal, critical Marxist and phenomenological approaches. Furthermore, the relationship between news and freedoms, news and gender are displayed. The changes occurred in news practices by the new media are also explored with different examples from Turkey and all around the world.
Learning Outcomes 1) Identifiying determinants on th enews texts
2) Analysing the relations between policy, economy and news
3) Evaluating the relations between news produciton and news texts

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Opening discussions on news and news production process in our technological era. Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning; Storyline 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Seminar
2. Week Understaning liberal news approaches Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning; Storyline 		Seminar
3. Week Discussions on the history of press freedom in the world and current issues Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool; Colloquium
Problem Based Learning; Storyline 		Seminar
4. Week Approaching the relations between policy and news media Lecture
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Problem Based Learning; Brain Based Learning 		Seminar
5. Week Discussions on phenomelogical approaches on news reality Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool; Colloquium
 Seminar
6. Week Grasping human rights journlism Lecture
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning; Brain Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Seminar
7. Week War and conflict journalism Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming; Colloquium
Storyline; Brain Based Learning 		Seminar
8. Week Grasping data journalism Lecture; Question Answer
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning; Brain Based Learning 		Homework
9. Week Understanding citisen journalism Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning; Storyline 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Seminar
10. Week Relation between news and gender and issues Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Problem Based Learning; Brain Based Learning 		Homework Seminar
11. Week Confirmation mechanisms for news and credibility of news Lecture; Discussion
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning; Storyline 		Seminar
12. Week Media and capital relations from the class perspective Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool
Storyline; Brain Based Learning 		Homework Seminar
13. Week News and the effects of algorithms Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Opinion Pool
Problem Based Learning; Brain Based Learning 		Homework Seminar
14. Week General overview Lecture
Colloquium
Problem Based Learning; Brain Based Learning 		Seminar

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Alankuş, Sevda, İnsan Hakları Haberciliği (ed.) IPS İLetişim VAkfı Yayınları, 2008. Alankuş, Sevda,Kadın Odaklı Habercilik, (ed.) IPS İLetişim VAkfı Yayınları, 2008. Dursun, Çiler (2001), TV Haberlerinde İdeoloji, İmge: Ankara Dursun, Çiler, (2004), Haber, Hakikat ve İktidar İlişkisi (derl.)Elips,Ankara.(seçme okumalar) J. Keane, (1992). Medya ve Demokrasi. H. Şahin (çev.), İstanbul: Ayrıntı. 1. Bölüm Özer, Ömer, Liberal BAsın, Literatürk yayınları, 2010 R.A. Hackett, (1998). "Bir Paradigmanın Önemini Yitirişi: Haber Medyası Çalışmalarında Yanlılık ve Nesnellik", İlef Yıllık 1997-1998.

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PY24000
PY35000
PY95000

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