Media and Consumption Society

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Define the concept of consumption.
2) Examine the transition process to the consumption society.
3) Examine the emergence of the concept of consumption culture with the formation of consumption society.
4) Compare the consumption patterns and cultural habits of the pre-industrial Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
5) Examine the reflections of the beginning of the era of industrialization in Europe and the capitalist developments that practised in the aftermath of it on the forms of production and consumption in the Western society.
6) Explain the effects of globalization on the consumer culture and the forms of consumption in Turkey.
7) Examine the effect of consumption culture of Turkey on education, art and social life.
8) Explain the impact of consumption culture in Turkey on the media content.