Media and Popular Culture

Mediji in popularna kultura

Course credits:

10.00 ECTS / 90 (30 hours of lectures, 0 hours of exercises, 60 hours of seminars, 0 hours other forms of work)

Course holder:

prof. dr. Breda Luthar

Type:

Required

Language:

Slovenian / english

Semester:

Full academic year

Study degree

3. level

Course execution:

• Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Short content

The beginnings of mass communication studies: University of Columbia, from the 1930s to the 1950s (Lazarsfeld, Cantril, Blumler, Herzog, Lowwenthal, Katz, Merton, Riesman, Adorno, Horkheimer, etc.) Here we examine the social and cultural contexts of the creation of the sociology of the media, administrative and critical research, the fall of the critical sociology of the media and the positivism of the American tradition of mass communication studies. II. Media as a technology: A move towards the study of the communication forms facilitated by the media (Innis, McLuhan) The relation of “the social” to “the mediated” as problem for media theory. III. Media examined in the context of cultural studies: from culturalism to structuralism.