ASOA15015U Media Sociology

Volume 2015/2016
Education

BA/MA Elective course
Specialiseringslinje: Kultursociologi
Course package: (MSc Curriculum 2015): Culture, lifestyle and everyday life

Content

The concept of the course stems from a wish to analyze the media from a critical sociological perspective. We will trace Historically how the field of media sociology evolved, starting with Adorno and Horkheimers study of Culture Industry. Then move on to Habermas study of the Public sphere and Bordieus’s work on”Tv-journalism”, and Scholars who analyze Danish Media according to Bordieu. We will also go in detail about the importance of the Political Economy of Media as it has been understood by Dallas Smythe in the era of  print and Television and by Christian Fuchs with the occurrence of the internet. A topic of investigation of the course will also be the effect of the formal aspects of media on culture and society as described by Marshall Mcluhann. The course will examine some of the ways that media intersects with political and social struggle that shapes everyday life. Furthermore we will explore how media provides forms for ideological domination and helps reproduce forms of power and at the same time provides material for the construction of identities and for empowerment, resistance and struggle.

Learning Outcome

The overall objective of the course is to dewelop critical thinking skills. To demonstrate these critical skills in written and oral form.

The learning objective is for students to be able to use theories and approaches to analyze  different problems like:

- The institutional organization of Media and how it impacts the content

-  The shifts in the structure between public and private and how theese shifts impact culture,

-  Structural changes in the media organizations and how they are important to their content,

- The potential importance of media for the shaping of identity,

-The  significance of technological form for the development of culture and  societies,

- The consequences of subsumption of media under capitalist imperatives for media content ,

-  Know about The ideas of Media culture in a modern and a post-modern world,

-  Be able to analyze the  development of social media for the overall organisation of media.

A goal of the course is also to have clear knowledge about  the difference between the situation of production and reception of media messages

Literature by :

Horkheimer og Adorno"The Dialectic of The enlghtenment"

Jurgen Habermas " The Structural Change of The public Sphere"

Pierre Bordieu"On Televison and Journalism"

Marshall Mcluhann "Understanding Media"

Christian Fuchs "Social Media"

John Thompson" Media and Modernity"

Lecturing, group work and excercise.
Dette kursus har adgangsbegrænsninger. Kurset vil som udgangspunkt ikke blive udbudt igen. Du kan således ikke planlægge efter, at det udbydes i senere semestre, end hvad der fremgår af denne kursusbeskrivelse.

WORKLOAD
The number of lecture hours are the same for both 7,5 and 10 ECTS courses.

7,5 ECTS:
Lectures: 28
Course preparation: 75
Exercises: 60
Project work: 43

Total: 206

10 ECTS:
Lectures: 28
Course preparation: 100
Exercises: 47
Project work: 50
Exam Preparation: 50
Total: 275
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Course Preparation
  • 75
  • Exercises
  • 60
  • Lectures
  • 28
  • Project work
  • 43
  • Total
  • 206
Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Course participation
Continous assesment
Exam registration requirements

Sociology students must be enrolled under MSc Curriculum 2015 to take this exam.

Marking scale
passed/not passed
Censorship form
No external censorship
Internal examiners
Exam period

Submission dates and time will be available at KUnet, www.kunet.dk. Exchange students and danish full degree guest students please see the homepage of Sociology; http://www.soc.ku.dk/english/education/exams/ and http://www.soc.ku.dk/uddannelser/meritstuderende/eksamen/

Re-exam

If the form of examination is ”active participation” the re-examination form is always “free written take-home essay”.

Criteria for exam assesment

Please see the learning outcome.

Credit
10 ECTS
Type of assessment
Course participation
Continous assesment
Exam registration requirements

Sociology students must be enrolled under MSc Curriculum 2005 or BSc Curriculum to take this exam.

Marking scale
passed/not passed
Censorship form
No external censorship
Internal examiners
Exam period

Submission dates and time will be available at KUnet, www.kunet.dk. Exchange students and danish full degree guest students please see the homepage of Sociology; http://www.soc.ku.dk/english/education/exams/ and http://www.soc.ku.dk/uddannelser/meritstuderende/eksamen/

Re-exam

If the form of examination is ”active participation” the re-examination form is always “free written take-home essay”.

Criteria for exam assesment

Please see the learning outcome.

Credit
10 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written examination
Individual/group. Free written take-home essays are assignments for which students define and formulate a problem within the parameters of the course and based on an individual exam syllabus. The free written take-home essay must be no longer than 15 pages. For group assignments, an extra 7½ pages is added per additional student. Further details for this exam form can be found in the Curriculum and in the General Guide to Examinations at KUnet.
Exam registration requirements

Sociology students must be enrolled under MSc Curriculum 2005 or BSc Curriculum to take this exam.

Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Exam period

Submission dates and time will be available at KUnet, www.kunet.dk. Exchange students and danish full degree guest students please see the homepage of Sociology; http://www.soc.ku.dk/english/education/exams/ and http://www.soc.ku.dk/uddannelser/meritstuderende/eksamen/

Criteria for exam assesment

Please see the learning outcome.