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Course, academic year 2023/2024
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Understanding Media - JJM369
Title: Understanding Media
Czech title: Porozumět médiím
Guaranteed by: Department of Media Studies (23-KMS)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2023
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, MC [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 20 (20)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Mgr. Karolína Šimková
Teacher(s): Mgr. Karolína Šimková
Class: Courses for incoming students
Annotation -
Last update: Mgr. Karolína Šimková (05.02.2024)
Understanding Media introduces students to major media theories, concepts, and authors through articles, book chapters, and other texts. The course is taught in English.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: Mgr. Karolína Šimková (01.03.2024)

To receive credit, the student must submit two short written assignments (summaries of the assigned text) during the semester and take an oral examination at the end of the semester in the form of a group discussion (approximately four participants) on the theories discussed in the course. Students will be assessed on their level of understanding of the assigned texts and their ability to express their ideas in both the submitted texts and the group discussion, as well as on the formality of the written assignments. To successfully complete the course, students must attend most lectures (two absences are allowed) and participate in discussions of selected texts.

Literature -
Last update: Mgr. Karolína Šimková (05.02.2024)

A link to the current texts appears weekly in SIS. Students will work primarily with the following electronic databases: https://knihovna.fsv.cuni.cz/katalogy-e-zdroje/7-nejoblibenejsich-e-zdroju

Syllabus -
Last update: Mgr. Karolína Šimková (05.02.2024)

Introductory lesson (credit conditions, assignment of the first text) 21 February 2024
Lecture 1 - Interpretation and discussion over the text (Marshall McLuhan) 28 February 2024
Lecture 2 - Independent Study - First Written Assignment (Mark Deuze podcast) 6 March 2024
Lecture 3 - Interpretation and Discussion over Independent Work (Mark Deuze podcast) 13 March 2024
Lecture 4 - Interpretation and discussion over the text (Manuel Castells) 20 March 2024
Lecture 5 - Interpretation and discussion over the text (John Fiske) 27 March 2024
Lecture 6 - Interpretation and discussion over the text (Henry Jenkins) 3 April 2024
Lecture 7 - Interpretation and discussion over the text (Jan Van Dijk) 10 April 2024
Lecture 8 - Interpretation and discussion over the text (Sonia Livingstone) 17 April 2024
Lecture 9 - Interpretation and discussion over the text - Second Written Assignment (David Lyon) 24 April 2024
Lecture 10 - Interpretation and Discussion over Independent Work (Current Research Article + Course Summary) 15 May 2024

(Selected texts may change)

 
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