ASOB05018U Media Sociology

Volume 2013/2014
Education
BA + MA Elective course, Sociology
Content
The aim is to explore the theoretical foundations of mediasociologi from a present day perspective. Do the changes in the social formation concerning technology, social institutions and media organizations require a new way of thinking about the culture and the shaping of identity? Focus will be on changes in the relationship between the Public and Private sphere, the concept of Ideology, its origins - and if it is still a viable option when analysing social domination within the media. The main classical and new approaches will be examined and discussed. on the basis of original literature: Marx , Adorno, Gramsci, Habermas, McLuhan, Kellner and others The concept of the course stems from a wish to analyze the media form a critical perspective. 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 aim is to explore the theoretical foundations of mediasociologi from a present day perspective. Do the changes in the social formation concerning technology, social institutions and media organizations require a new way of thinking about the culture and the shaping of identity? Focus will be on changes in the relationship between the Public and Private sphere, the concept of Ideology, its origins - and if it is still a viable option when analysing social domination within the media.
Literature
Examination requirement app. 800 pages
Requirement readings/syllabus will be distributed during the first session.

Preliminary outline for Syllabus:
Introduction
On the significance of mediasociology
The Dialectic of the Enlightment. Media as environments-Medium Theory
The transformation of the public sphere.
Bordieu media and field theory
Media and a theory about propaganda.
Media as bearer of the “male gaze”.
Media Post-modernism and the shaping of identity. 
Both lectures and student presentations will be the form of work. The student presentations will be carried out on the basis of handed out material. Guest lectures will appear in several of the sessions.
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  • Category
  • Hours
  • Class Instruction
  • 28
  • Exam
  • 123,5
  • Preparation
  • 123,5
  • Total
  • 275,0
Credit
10 ECTS
Type of assessment
Continuous assessment
• Active attendence with small essays
Group/individual: individual or group
Marking scale
passed/not passed
Censorship form
No external censorship
Internal examiners
Exam period
Handing in of papers: 12.00 o’clock in the secretariat (16.1.34) Submission dates will be available on Absalon.
Criteria for exam assesment

Please see course objectives

Credit
10 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment
Free written take-home essay

Assesment: 7-point scale
Group/individual: individual or group
Size: A Free written take-home essay of maximum 15 pages of 2400 characters each page (incl. spaces). If written by a group, the essay may be 50 % of 2400 characters each page longer per additional student.
Attention: When handing in as a group, the contribution of each student must be pointed out
Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Internal examiners
Exam period
Handing in of papers: 12.00 o’clock in the secretariat (16.1.34) Submission dates will be available on Absalon.
Criteria for exam assesment

Please see course objectives