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Course, academic year 2024/2025
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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 2024
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, MC [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 10 (18)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
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 -
Understanding Media introduces students to major media theories, concepts, and authors through articles, book chapters, and other texts. The course is taught in English.
Last update: Šimková Karolína, Mgr. (05.02.2024)
Course completion requirements -

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.

Last update: Šimková Karolína, Mgr. (01.03.2024)
Literature -

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

Last update: Šimková Karolína, Mgr. (05.02.2024)
Syllabus -
  • Introductory Lesson (course requirements, first text assignment) – February 18, 2025
  • Lecture 1 – Explanation and discussion on the text (Marshall McLuhan) – February 25, 2025
  • Lecture 2 – Explanation and discussion on the text (Manuel Castells) – March 4, 2025
  • Lecture 3 – Independent work – first written assignment (Mark Deuze podcast) – March 11, 2025
  • Lecture 4 – Explanation and discussion on independent work (Mark Deuze podcast) – March 18, 2025
  • Lecture 5 – Explanation and discussion on the text (John Fiske) – March 25, 2025
  • Lecture 6 – Explanation and discussion on the text (Henry Jenkins) – April 1, 2025
  • Lecture 7 – Explanation and discussion on the text (Jan Van Dijk) – April 8, 2025
  • Lecture 8 – Explanation and discussion on the text (Sonia Livingstone) – April 15, 2025
  • Lecture 9 – Explanation and discussion on the text – second written assignment (Noam Chomsky) – April 22, 2025
  • Lecture 10 – Explanation and discussion on the text (David Lyon) – April 29, 2025
  • Lecture 11 – Explanation and discussion on the text (Sherry Turkle) – May 6, 2025
  • Lecture 12 – Explanation and discussion on independent work (current academic article + course summary) – May 13, 2025

(Selected texts may be subject to change.)

Last update: Šimková Karolína, Mgr. (05.02.2025)
 
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