Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Information Society: Values and Processes
Course Code
KSK_109
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
Normunds Kozlovs
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
The purpose of the course is to familiarise with the most important theories in the field of communication, as well as the analysis models offered by them and the conceptual apparatus used in relation to the existence of the media space in information society. Attention will be focused on the cultural reality created by the opportunities of information society, i.e. the new media culture for the purposes of familiarising with the most prominent net art examples, as well as examples of media activism, which critically view the media space, communication created by the internet – the so-called information society existence conditions.
Preliminary Knowledge
History of ideas.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.To find one’s way around the analysis models offered by communication theories about processes and values of information society.
Skills
1.During the course students will have to master the skill to critically analyse the processes ongoing in the information society in the context of Latvia applying the analysis models offered by the communication theory.
Competences
1.To be competent in digital gap, media determinism, virtual class issues.
Assessment
Individual work
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Individual work |
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Development of a presentation for the student media.
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Examination
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1.
Examination |
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Material for student media.
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2.
Examination |
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Persuasion building capacity (repetition, authority, rational judgement): lectures 25%, seminars 35%, final work 40%.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Lecture
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Introduction to problems of information society. Society modernisation/rationalisation process.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Knowledge society.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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What is information society? Technology in modernisation of society.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Technological society, digital gap.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Networking society.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Consumer society.
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Auditorium
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2
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Media determinism.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Information society and its enemies. Terrorism.
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On site
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Globalisation and identity.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Flexible personality. Virtual class.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
20 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Jean Baudrillard, The Violence of the Global, 2002
4.
Fredric Jameson (1991) Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
6.
The One-dimensional Network Society of Manuel Castells a review essay by Jan A.G.M. van Dijk
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8.
Boriss Groiss Kapitāls. Māksla. Taisnīgums.
9.
R. Kelly Garrett Protest in an Information Society: A Review of Literature on Social Movements and New ICTs
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Electronic tribes (gigapedia.com)
12.
Global Civil Society? (google scholar search)
13.
Information Ethics: An Environmental Approach to the Digital Divide
14.
The Information Society and Its Philosophy
Additional Reading
1.
source: ctheory.net
Other Information Sources
2.
Open-source economics: Yochai Benkler on TED.com