Media and Consumption Society

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Popular Culture, Media and Society

Course Contents

The transition to consumption of the concept of consumer society; Industry in Europe and the Ottoman Empire prior to consumption patterns and cultural habits will be discussed. development of capitalist production and consumption patterns in Western societies, the reflections will be reviewed. Taking the concept of globalization, globalization of consumer culture and consumption patterns in Turkey, the effects will be studied.

Weekly Schedule

1) The objective and content of the course will be shared with students, what kind of expectation students have about the course will be discussed.
2) The concept of consumption will be discussed.
3) The transition from the concept of consumption to the consumption society will be examined.
4) The emergence formation of consumer society with the emergence of the concept of consumer culture will be explored.
5) In pre-industrial Europe and the Ottoman Empire and the cultural habits of consumption patterns will be discussed.
6) Consumption Patterns
7) Beginning of the era of industrialization in Europe and the aftermath of the capitalist development of production and consumption patterns in Western societies, the reflections will be reviewed.
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) Following the development of the capitalist system of modern society and its impact on media and media industry development process will be explained.
10) Taking the concept of globalization, globalization of consumer culture and consumption patterns in Turkey, the effects will be studied.
11) In Turkey, the training of consumer culture, art and popular culture and social life of the development impact will be discussed.
12) The effect of consumer culture to the media in Turkey to be discussed.
13) The development of new media and virtual environments will be discussed at the implications of consumer society.
14) Desires in Consumption patterns and fluidity Of Desires
15) Consumption and Media
16) Final examination

Recommended or Required Reading

1- George Ritzer, Toplumun MC Donaldlaşması, Çağdaş Toplum Yaşamının Değişeb Karakteri Üzerine Bir İncelem, İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, 2011
2- Banu Dağtaş, Erdal Dağtaş (Derleyen), Medya, Tüketim Kültürü ve Yaşam Tarzları, Ankara: Ütopya Yayınevi, 2009
3- Jean Baudrillard, Tüketim Toplumu, İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, 1997
4- Yavuz Odabaşı, Tüketim Kültürü, Yetinen Toplumdan Tüketen Topluma, İstanbul: Sistem Yayıncılık, 2009
5- ders notları, projektör, makaleler,gazete ve dergiler
6- lecture notes, slide projector, newspapers and magazines
7- 6. haftada 1 saatlik yazılı ara sınav ve 14. haftada 1 saatlik yazılı final sınavı
8- 6th week 1 hour midterm exam and 14th week 1 hour written final exam

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Group Study
5) Brain Storming
6) Problem Solving

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	40%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	60%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required