Media and discrimination - Einzelansicht

Media and Discrimination – Ülkü Doganay

online seminar / wednesday 10:00-12:00

This course aims at focusing on the role of the media in reproducing and spreading discourses of discrimination in the public sphere against refugees, ethnic and religious minorities, women and LGBTIs etc. For this purpose, the course focus on the analysis of the media discourses, including news, ads., comics, serials, films and social media. The course concentrates on the analysis of the cases from Turkish, European and US media and includes exercises that will develop students' ability to identify and analyse discriminatory discourse of the media.

This course focuses on the role of the media in reproducing and spreading discourses of discrimination in the public sphere.

Learning Aims
To provide a general understanding about:
• the role of the media in dissemination of discriminatory discourses.
• discursive strategies of discrimation applied by different media types and content.

diverse methodological perspectives for analysing media discourses of discrimination.
Upon the successful completion of the course students will be able to:
• Grasp the key and related concepts of discrimination including stereotypes, prejudices, stigmatization, hate speech, new racism etc.
• Critically evaluate the role of the media in disseminating discrimination.
• Develop a grounded understanding of discursive strategies of discrimination in different media genres.
• Determine a research question about discrimination in the media and develop a research outline (including the subject, the objective, the sample and method to be used).
Course requirements
• Watching weekly video-lectures, reading articles and other materials weekly and participating to discussions in the online classrooms.

Participation only tasks: PASS
➢ Assignment 1: Regular and active participation to online sessions.
➢ Assignment 2: Reading weekly uploaded articles and answering the questions derived from the reading materials during the discussion sessions.
➢ Assignment 3: Bringing examples from media discourses to the online discussion sessions and discussing it during the session (Starting from week 4 to week 12). Every student is expected to select at least 2 topics from the course schedule; bring examples from media discourses on these topics to the discussion session and make 10 minutes of oral presentation about these cases.

• Additional requirement for those who want to earn 6 ECTS#

➢ Assignment 4: Developing a research design on discriminative media discourses and presenting it in the classroom. Students are asked to bring a research question based on a problem to the classroom starting from 5th week, develop a research design and discuss it weekly and finally present their research design from week 13- to week 14. Each presentation will be approximately 15 minutes long and will be followed by class discussions. Students are expected to both present their research design during the online session and then to submit a written research design of about 15 pages.

Course evaluation:

PASS/NOT PASS:
o Assignment 1: %30
o assignment 2: %30
o assignment 3: %40

6 ETCS:

o Assignment 1: %15,
o Assignment 2: %15,
o Assignment 3 %20;
o Assignment 4: %50 (Presentation %20; written research design submission %30)

Students are required to fulfil all the assignments successfully.
• Students need to decide whether they want to earn ECTS credits by 12.02.2021 and register for the submission accordingly.
Organization of the course and course schedule
• The course is divided into thematic weekly sessions over a period of 14 weeks. Each session will include a mixture of different tools (short video lectures, readings, case analysis, question & answer sections etc.) The video lectures will be uploaded to the platform one week before the online course.

You can find information and the Syllabus on our homepage.

The course takes place digitally. After admission to PULS, please register in the corresponding Moodle course. You can find more information there. The course starts regularly in the first week of the semester.

Questions about the course you can address to Annett Wadewitz / sozialstruktur@uni-potsdam.de