COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES, POPULAR CULTURE AND MEDIA

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MZS 2004 TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES, POPULAR CULTURE AND MEDIA ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Music Sciences

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR AYKUT BARIŞ ÇEREZCIOĞLU

Offered to

Music Sciences
Musicology
Music Technology

Course Objective

Describe the influences of technological changes and new media forms on popular culture.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Describe to relationship between technological change and cultural change,
2   Interpret to social functions of media,
3   Describe to relationship between social changes new media forms which forming by technology
4   Describe to basic approachs of Cultural Studies and Media Studies about relationship between technological change, popular culture and media,
5   Defind to effects of technological changes on production of popular music.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: concepts of media , popular culture and technology .
2 Communication studies and media studies.
3 Printing.
4 Gromophone, sound record technologies and progressing of music industry. Radio, cinema, TV and change on press.
5 Case study: media and political criticism in 1950 s America.
6 Impact of medias and technological divices on local and trans local connections.
7 Global connectivity in the context of media and technology.
8 Global flow of elements of Popular music in context of global cultural flow (-scapes).
9 Decentralize media, social media and virtual community.
10 Scene, decentralize media and new scene forms in the context of internet.
11 Midterm exam.
12 Technological change and change of music industry.
13 Technological change and change on popular music sound.
14 Delivering term project.

Recomended or Required Reading

Text Book(s)/Required Readings:
Briggs, Asa-Burke Peter. (2004). Medyanın Toplumsal Tarihi, (çev: Ibrahim Şener), Istanbul, Iletişim Yayınları.

Additional Sources:
Lull, James. (2001). Medya, Iletişim, Kültür, (çev: Nazife Güngör), Ankara: Vadi Yayınları.
Karakoç, Enderhan. 2009. Medya ve Popüler Kültür, Konya,: Literatürk Yayınları.
Mutlu, Erol. 2005. Globalleşme, Popüler Kültür ve Medya, Ankara: Ütopya Yayınları.
Appadurai, Arjun. 2007. Küresel Kültürel Ekonomideki Bölünme ve Farklılıklar , Küreselleşme Kültür ve Medeniyet, (Ed: Kudret Bülbül, Çev: Yavuz Çakır, Iklime Çakır), Ankara: Orient Yayınları.
Warschauer, Mark. 2003. Technology and Coscial Inclusion, U.S.A., MIT Press.
Jones, Steven. 2002. Virtual Culture, London: Sage Publishers.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Instructar tells the subject and students pose questions.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria


Two written exams are conducted during the semester.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Students must be attend the lessons seventy percent.
2. Every kind of attend of copy to be puneshed.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

aykut.cerezcioglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesdat 12:00- 13:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Reading 10 2 20
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 129

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