Course: Media seminar

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Course title Media seminar
Course code KFHS/KB346
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Pokorný Vít, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Definition of basic terms (sociological aspects) 2. Anthropological aspects of family study 3. Classical theories of the family 4. Family theory 5. Family in traditional society 6. Family in modern society 7. Postmodern and family 8. Issues of socialization in the family and outside it 9. Gender issues in the sociology of the family 10. Family and social stratification I 11. Family and social stratification II 12. Family and labor market 13. Demographic indicators and changes 14. Divorce and remarriage

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is a "practical research" of our relationship to the media and our life in the media sphere. Students will gain the ability to rationally analyze their media experience and understand it as part of their personal and social life on the basis of their own research and theoretical discussions. The course emphasizes the connection between qualitative sociological and anthropological methods and the theoretical grasp of mediality, understood as an ambiguous co-created environment, to which we are neither passively published nor completely controlled. The course therefore seeks answers to these and the following questions: Who are we as media beings? How is society changing in the age of new media? How do we live as inhabitants of communication networks? What are the psychological, political and cultural implications of the new media? How is my personal media environment shaped?
After completing the course, students will be able to: - perceive gender as a social construct and analytical category - perceive gender issues in historical and cultural contexts - describe the historical development of feminism and male studies - assess the category of gender in the micro and macro level of society
Prerequisites
Recommended prerequisities are Sociology I and II.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
credit: tests from given literature, presentation of relevant topic examination: knowledge-based test
Recommended literature
  • Baudrillard, J. Dokonalý zločin. Praha, 2011.
  • Burton, G., Jirák, J. Úvod do studia médií. Brno: Barrister and Principal, 2001.
  • Dvořák, T. (ed.). Kapitoly z dějin a teorie médié. Praha, 2010.
  • Flusser, V. Do universa technických obrazů. Praha, 2001.
  • Heidegger, M. Věda, technika a zamyšlení. Praha, 2004.
  • Charvát, M. O nových médiích, modularitě a simulaci. Togga, Praha, 2017.
  • Jakubowicz, K. Nová ekologie médií: Konvergence a mediamorfóza. Praha, 2013.
  • Krtilová, K. - Svatoňová, K. (eds.). Medienwissenschaft: Východiska a aktuální pozice německé filozofie a teorie médií. Praha, 2016.
  • Manovich, L. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press, 2001.
  • McChesney, R. Problém médií. Jak uvažovat o dnešních médiích.. Praha, 2009.
  • McLUHAN, M. Jak rozumět médiím. Praha: Odeon, 2011.
  • Meyrowith, J. Všude a nikde: Vliv elektronických médií na sociální chování. Praha, 2006.
  • Thompson, J. B. Média a modernita. Sociální teorie médií.. Praha, 2004. ISBN 80-2460-652-6.
  • Virilio, P. Válka a film. Kostelec, 2007.


Study plans that include the course
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