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Last update: Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta, Ph.D. (15.02.2023)
Course rationale and aims Through a series of lectures, seminars, independent study and feedback sessions, communication and media studies PhD students explore and deepen their knowledge of the theoretical foundations and traditions, pertaining to key aspects of their doctoral projects. The students engage in the study of the different paradigms and schools of thought of their selected theoretical area, with the suggestion to focus on one of the key fields of culture, ideology or power. This suggested focus helps students to embed the theoretical grounding of their doctoral projects in critical approaches, in communication and media studies. Through the scrutiny of key scholars and texts, students evaluate the existing literature critically, reflecting on its strengths and shortcomings, and argue, in written form and orally, for their theoretical and conceptual choices, in light of their own projects’ aims and specificities.
Intended learning outcomes § The students expand and deepen their theoretical knowledge, in approaches and directions pertinent to their doctoral projects, in a critical and structured fashion. § The students develop their skills of communicating concepts and theories, both in written form and orally. § The students develop their pedagogical skills, by structuring and delivering a short lecture regarding their selected theory/concept.
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Last update: Mgr. Ing. Kateřina Turková, Ph.D. (15.11.2022)
Assessment In order to fulfil the course’s requirements, students need to attend the lectures and seminars, and actively participate in all the activities that are organised during the course’s sessions. They also need to successfully complete a set of assignments. |
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Last update: Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta, Ph.D. (25.01.2023)
Suggested literature on culture, ideology, power
Barthes, Roland. 1978. Image-Music-Text. New York: Hill and Wang.
Gramsci. A. (1990) Selection from the Prisonbook, edited and translated by Quentin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith ElecBook London 1999 Transcribed from the edition published by Lawrence & Wishart London 1971 available at https://abahlali.org/files/gramsci.pdf Longhurst, Brian, Greg Smith, Gaynor Bagnall, Garry Crawford, Miles Ogborn, Elaine Baldwin, and Scott McCracken. 2017 (3rd ed). Introducing Cultural Studies. London: outledge. Newman, Saul (2001). From Bakunin to Lacan. : Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power Lexington: Lexington Books. Sum, N. and Jessop, B. (2013). Towards a Cultural Political Economy Putting Culture in its Place in Political Economy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner (eds). 2006. Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Malden,MA:Blackwell.Available online at https://we.riseup.net/assets/102142/appadurai.pdf. Marx, Karl and Engels, Friedrich, The ruling class and the ruling ideas (1) Gramsci, Antonio, History of the subaltern classes; The concept of ideology; Cultural themes: Ideological material (2) Althusser, Louis, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (6) Garnham, Nicholas, Contribution to a Political economy of mass-communication (15) Baudrillard J., The Precession of Simulacra Further reading Cammaerts, Bart, Alice Mattoni, and Patrick McCurdy (eds). 2013. Mediation and protest movements. Bristol: Intellect Books. Couldry, Nick. 2000. The place of media power: pilgrims and witnesses of the media age. Couldry, Nick. 2012. Media, society, world: social theory and digital media practice. Dahlgren, Peter. 2013. The political web: Media, participation and alternative democracy. Doudaki, Vaia, and Angeliki Boubouka. 2020. Discourses of Legitimation in the News: The Case of the Economic Crisis in Greece. Oxon; New York: Routledge. Fuchs, Christian. 2014. Social media: a critical introduction. London: Sage Publications. London: Routledge. Maesse Jens, and Gerardo C. Nicoletta (2021). Economics as discursive ideological practices. Gramsci-Foucault-Lacan Approach to analysing power/knowledge regime of subjectivation, Morris, Rosalind (ed). 2010. Can the subaltern speak?: Reflections on the history of an idea. New York: Columbia University Press. Psyllakou E. (2021). Feelings in crisis. The emotional and affective dimension of neoliberal economics in Greek crisis prone society, in Power and Influence of Economists: Contributions Jameson, Fredric. 2006. ‘Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’. In Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner (eds). 2006. Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Chapter 29. Jenkins, Henry, Mizuko Ito, danah boyd. 2016. Participatory culture in a networked era: A conversation on youth, learning, commerce, and politics. Cambridge: Polity Press. McPhail, Thomas L. 2014 (4th edition). Global Communication theories, stakeholders and Spivak, Gayatri. 1996. The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (edited by Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean). New York; London: Routledge. Thompson, John. 1995. The media and modernity: a social theory of the media. Cambridge: Polity Press. Torfing, Jacob. 2003. New Theories of Discourse. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Van Brussel, Leen, Nico Carpentier and Benjamin De Cleen. 2019. Communication and Discourse Theory. Bristol: Intellect Van Dijck, José. 2013. The culture of connectivity: a critical history of social media. New York: Oxford University Press. Williams, Raymond. 1983. Culture and Society, 1780-1950. New York: Columbia University Press. |
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Last update: Mgr. Ing. Kateřina Turková, Ph.D. (15.11.2022)
Instruction The course combines a series of lectures and seminars, with independent guided study. |
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Last update: Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta, Ph.D. (23.02.2024)
Assignment 1 (individual) (30%) Present one reading each week to the group highlighting strength and limits. 2 Discussants Assignment 1+ (semi-collective, weekly assignment) (30%) Diary of the course – Produce a short note (from 300 to 500 words) at the end of each lecture to be shared during the successive lecture Assignment 2 (individual) (40%) Elaborate a theorical discussion on Ideology and Power and use it to analyze a media case study Present the case study to the group – Presentation on 10 May Write an extended abstract of (from 600 to 1500 words - references not included) of the presentation. Submission of 5 May 2024
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Last update: Gerardo Costabile Nicoletta, Ph.D. (24.02.2024)
Course schedule Moodle: https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=3618 Enrolment key cip2024
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