Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description

Information Society

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
KSK_107
Branch of Science
Media and communications
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Communication Science
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Structure Unit Manager
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts

Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv

About Study Course

Objective

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Preliminary Knowledge

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Learning Outcomes

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Assessment

Individual work

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Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
10 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

Akustiskā telpa IV, Rīga, 2003 127.-132.lpp. Brian Holmes Flexible Personality

2.

Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, 2000

3.

Adorno Theodor, Culture Industry Reconsidered, 1991

5.

Ellul Jacques, The Technological Society

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Samuel Ebersole, Media determinism in cyberspace, 1995

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Andrew Feenberg, From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at the Crossroads (www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/feenberg/)

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Jurgen Habermas, Toward a Rational Society, 1971

11.

Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society, 1998

Additional Reading

1.

Jean Baudrillard, The Violence of the Global, 2002

Other Information Sources

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ctheory.net