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MA Program in Media & Communication Studies - Faculty of Communication - Izmir University of Economics Course code: MCS 568 Semester: Spring 2014 Credit units: 3 ECTS credit units: 7.5 Assoc. Prof. Pantelis Vatikiotis Email: pantelis.vatikiotis@izmirekonomi.edu.tr Twitter handle: @PVatikiotis Office: A 508 Telephone: 8472 Office hours: TBA, or by appointment Course website: http://homes.ieu.edu.tr/pvatikiotis/Alternative%20Media/ Course blog: http://iletisim.ieu.edu.tr/flows/ - Syllabus - Description This module probes into traditional and newer alternative media/communication practices and the contexts of their implementation. Course Objectives explore the history, perspectives, definitions, and the social agents of alternative media practices examine different alternative media paradigms: underground press, community broadcasting, video activism, graffiti, culture jamming, electronic projects, and social media encourage students to probe into alternative media projects, addressing social, cultural, and political aspects of their practice Learning Outcomes Upon completion of this course students will: develop a critical approach to mass communication process and mass media consider alternative ways of producing, organizing, and be engaged with/in media reflect on diverse alternative media projects across various communication areas/sectors evaluate cultural, social, economic and political implications of the practice of alternative media by different social actors research the implementation of alternative practices in communication/media contexts they are interested in apply new methodological approaches in the assessment of alternative media/communication practices Course Outline Week 1. Introduction Week 2. Critical reflections on mass media and mass communication Compulsory readings: - Chomsky, N. (1997) “What makes mainstream media mainstream”, in Z Magazine, available at: http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm - Couldry, N. and Curran, J. (eds.) (2003) Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World. Lenham: Rowman and Littlefield – chapter 1 Recommended readings: - Schiller, H. (1989) Culture Inc. The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression. Oxford: OUP – chapter 7. - McQuail, D. (1995) “Western European media: the mixed model under threat”, in Downing, J., Mohammadi, A. and Sreberny-Mohammadi, A. (eds.) Questioning the Media: a Critical Introduction (2nd ed.). London: Sage. - Davis, A. (2003) “Whither mass media and power? Evidence for a critical elite theory alternative”, in Media, Culture & Society, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 669-690. Week 3. Alternative to what? definitions & perspectives Compulsory readings: - Atton, C. (2002) Alternative Media. London: Sage – chapter 1 - Bailey, O. G., Cammaerts, B. and Carpentier, N. (2008) Understanding Alternative Media. Berkshire: Open University Press – chapter 1 Recommended readings: - Atton, C. and Couldry, N. (2003) “Introduction” (Special Issue on Alternative Media), in Media, Culture & Society, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 625-645. - Hamilton, J. (2000) “Alternative Media: Conceptual Difficulties, Critical Possibilities”, in Journal of Communication Inquiry, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 357-378. - Vatikiotis, P. (2005) “Communication Theory & Alternative Media”, in WPCC, vol. 2, issue: 1. http://www.westminster.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/20187/002WPCC-Vol2-No1- Pantelis_Vatikiotis.pdf Week 4. Underground press Compulsory readings: - Comedia (1984) “The Alternative Press: The Development of Underdevelopment”, in Media Culture & Society, vol. 6, pp. 95-102. - Khiabany, G. (2000) “Red Pepper: a New Model for the Alternative Press?”, in Media, Culture & Society, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 447-463. Recommended readings: - Atton, C. (1999) “A reassessment of the Alternative Press”, in Media, Culture & Society, 21.1: 51-76. - Downing, J. (2000) Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements. CA: Sage (Samizdat in the former Soviet Union) - Lewes, J. (2000) The Underground Press in America (1964-1968): Outlining an Alternative, the Envisioning of an Underground, in Journal of Communication Inquiry, 24:4, pp. 379-400 Week 5. Community radio Compulsory readings: - Lewis, P. (1984) “Community Radio: The Montreal Conference and after”, in Media, Culture & Society, vol. 6, pp. 137-150. - Dunaway, David (1998) “Community radio at the beginning of the 21st century”, in The Public/Javnost, 5.2, 87-103. Recommended readings: - Barlow, W. (1988) “Community Radio in the US: The Struggle for a Democratic Medium”, in Media, Culture & Society, vol. 19, pp. 81-105. - Coyer, K., Dowmunt, T. and Fountain, A. (2007) The Alternative Media Handbook. London: Routledge – chapter 2 - Prehn, O. (1992) “From Small Scale Utopianism to Large Scale Pragmatism. Trends and Prospects for Community Orientated Local Radio and Television”, in Jankowski, N., Prehn, O. and Stappers, J. (eds.) The People’s Voice: Local Radio and Television in Europe. London: John Libbey. Week 6. Participatory video and access TV Compulsory readings: - Coyer, K., Dowmunt, T. and Fountain, A. (2007) The Alternative Media Handbook. London: Routledge – chapter 3 - Stein, L. (1998) “Democratic ‘Talk’, Access Television and Participatory Political Communication”, in The Public/Javnost, vol. 5 (2), pp. 21-34. Recommended readings: - Freedman, E. (2000) Public Access/Private Confession: Home Video as (Queer) Community Television, in Television & New Media, Vol.1, No.2, pp. 179-190. - Rodriguez, C. (2001) Fissures in the Mediascape: An International Study of Citizens’ Media. Cresskil, New Jersey: Hampton Press – chapter 5 ('Colombian women producing video stories') - Kuttab, D. (1993) “Palestinian Diaries: Grass Roots TV Production in the Occupied Territories”, in Dowmunt, Tony (ed.) Channels of Resistance: global television and local empowerment. London: British Film Institute. Week 7. Tactics of cultural resistance: graffiti, jokes, street theatre, and culture jamming Compulsory readings: - Downing, J. (2000) Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements. CA: Sage chapter 4 - Bailey, O. G., Cammaerts, B. and Carpentier, N. (2008) Understanding Alternative Media. Berkshire: Open University Press – chapter 10 Recommended readings: - Couldry, N. (2001a) “The Umbrella Man: Crossing a Landscape of Speech and Silence”, in European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 131-153. - Bruner, M. L. (2005). Carnivalesque Protest and the Humorless State, in Text & Performance Quarterly, 25(2), 136-155 - Garcia, D. and Lovink, G. (1997) The ABC of tactical media, accessed at: http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9705/msg00096.html Week 8. Project A Week 9. Computing practices -Electronic Democratic Projects -Hacking Compulsory readings: - Lievrouw, L. (2011) Alternative and Activist Media. Cambridge: Polity Press – chapter 4 - Friedland, L. A. (1996) “Electronic democracy and the new citizenship”, in Media, Culture & Society, vol. 18, pp. 185-212 Recommended readings: - Bryan, C., Tsagarousianou, R. and Tambini, D. (1998) “Electronic Democracy and the Civic Networking Movement in Context”, in Tsagarousianou, R., Tambini, D. and Bryan, C. (eds.) Cyberdemocracy: Technology, Cities and Civic Networks. London: Routledge. - Jordan, T. (2008) Hacking. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press - chapter 6 - Wark, M. (2004) A Hacker Manifesto. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press – (‘Hacking’) Week 10. Online Practices -Digital Storytelling -Participatory journalism Compulsory readings: - Atton, C. (2004) An Alternative Internet: Radical Media, Politics and Creativity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press – chapter 2 - Lambert, J. (2012) Digital Storytelling, Capturing Lives, Creating Community, 3rd ed. Berkeley, CA: Digital Dinner Press - chapter 10 Recommended readings: - Downing, J. (2003) “The Independent Media Center Movement and the Anarchist Socialist Tradition”, in Couldry, N. and Curran, J. (eds.) Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World. London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - Couldry N (2008) Mediatization or mediation? Alternative understandings of the emergent space of digital storytelling, in New Media & Society, 10(3): 373–391. - Fuchs, C. (2013) Social Media: A Critical Introduction. London: Sage – chapter 3 Week 11. Commons knowledge -Wikies -Crowdsourcing Compulsory readings: - Lievrouw, L. (2011) Alternative and Activist Media. Cambridge: Polity Press – chapter 7 - Fuchs, C. (2013) Social Media: A Critical Introduction. London: Sage – chapter 10 Recommended readings: - Baker, N. (2008) “The charms of Wikipedia”, in New York Review of Books, March 20, pp. 6-10 - Firer-Blaess, S. And Fuchs, C. (2012) “Wikipedia: an Info-Communist Manifesto”, in Television & New Media, XX(X), pp.1-17. - Terranova, T. (2000) “Free Labor: Producing Culture for Digital Economy”, in Social Text 63, vol.8. no.2, pp. 33-58. Week 12. Activism -Anti-globalisation movement -Online revolutions? Compulsory readings: - Carroll, W. & Hackett, R. (2006) ‘Democratic media activism through the lens of social movement theory’, in Media Culture & Society, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 83–104 - Hands, J. (2011) @ is for Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture. NY: Pluto - chapter 7 Recommended readings: - Bennett, W. L. (2003), ‘New media power. The Internet and Global Activism’, in Couldry, N., Curran, J. (eds) Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 17-37 - Bennett, W. L. and Segerberg, A. (2012) The logic of connective action: Digital media and the personalization of contentious politics, in Information, Communication and Society, 15(5), 739-768. - Sullivan, A. (2009) “The Revolution will be Twitted”, The Atlantic, accessed at: http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/print/2009/06/the-revolution-will-be-twittered/200478/ & Gladwell, M. (2010) ‘Small change: why the revolution will not be tweeted’, The New Yorker, 4 accessed at: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell Week 13. Blurring realms? public/private, commercial/civic, individual/collective, deliberative/non-deliberative Compulsory readings: - Papacharissi Z (2009) The virtual sphere 2.0: the internet, the public sphere and beyond. In Chadwick A and Howard P (eds) Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics. New York: Routledge, 230-245. - Dahlgren P (2009) Media and Political Engagement: Citizens, Communication and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press - chapter 3 Recommended readings: - Carpentier N (2011/2012) The concept of participation. If they have access and interact, do they really participate? in revista Fronteiras - estudos midiáticos, 14(2): 164-177. - Lash S (2009) Afterword: In praise of the a posteriori: Sociology and the Empirical, in European Journal of Social Theory, 12(1): 175-187. - Melucci, A. (1996) The Playing Self: Person and Meaning in the Planetary Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press - chapter 3 Week 14. Project B - Review Additional readings (in alphabetical order) Abel, R. (1997) “An Alternative Press. Why?”, in Publishing Research Quarterly, 12(4), pp. 78-84. Alankus, S. (2009) “The Relationship between Democracy and Other Media : An Attempt to Describe the Nonmainstream Media Environment in Turkey”, Online International Journal of Communication Studies, vol. 1. Alexander, B. (2011) The New Digital Storytelling. Creating Narratives with New Media. Santa Barbara: Praeger. Aouragh, M. (2013) “Social media, mediation and the Arab revolutions”, in tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique: Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 10 (2): 518=536. Askanius, T & Gustafsson, N (2010) ‘Mainstreaming the alternative: the changing media practices of protest movements’, in Interface: a journal for and about social movements, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1–22. Atton, C.(1996) “Anarchy on the Internet: Obstacles and Opportunities for Alternative electronic publishing”, in Anarchist Studies, 4, October 1996: 115-32. Barry, E. (2009) “Protests in Moldova Explode, with help of Twitter”, The New York Times, 7 April, accessed: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/europe/08moldova.html Bennett, W. L., (2003b) “Communicating Global Activism: Strengths and Vulnerabilities of Networked Politics”, in Information, Communication & Society, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 143–168. Brundidge, J. (2010) ‘Toward a Theory of Citizen Interface with Political Discussion and News in the Contemporary Public Sphere’, in International Journal of Communication, vol.4, pp. 1056–1078. Burgess, J. and Green, J. (eds.) (2009) YouTube. Cambridge: Polity Press. Cammaerts, B. and Carpentier, N. (eds.) (2007) Reclaiming the Media: Communication Rights and Democratic Media Roles. Bristol: Intellect. Castells, M. (2012) Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age. London: Polity Press. Chaffee, L. (1989) “Political Graffiti and Wall Painting in Greater Buenos Aires: An Alternative Communication System”, in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 8, pp. 37-60. Chomsky, N. (2011) Occupy. Penguin. Clark, H. (ed) (2009) People Power. London: Pluto Press. Cleaver, H. (1995) “The electronic fabric of struggle”, available at: www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/zaps.html Coleman, S. & Dyer-Witherford N. (2007) “Palying on the Digital Commons: Collectivities, Capital and Contestation in Videogame Culture, in Media Culture & Society, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 934–953 Cobcroft, R. (2010) ‘The state of the commons: case studies 2010’, in PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication, special edn, December, accessed at: http://journals.culture- communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/resources/includes/cc/PlatformCC_Cobcroft.pdf Cottle, S. (2008) “Reporting demonstrations: the changing media politics of dissent”, in New Media & Society, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 853–872 Couldry, N. (2000) The place of media power, Routledge, London. Couldry, N. and Curran, J. (eds.) (2003) Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World. London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Curran, J. (2000) “Rethinking Media and Democracy” in J Curran & M Guveritch (eds.) Mass Media and Society, pp. 120–154. Arnold, London. Dahlberg, L. (2001a) “Extending the Public Sphere through Cyberspace: the Case of Minnesota E- Democracy”, in First Monday, vol.6, no.3. Dahlberg, L. (2001b) “Democracy via Cyberspace: Mapping the Rhetorics and Practices of three Prominent Camps’, in New Media & Society, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 157–177 Dahlgren, P. (2009) Media and Political Engagement: Citizens, Communication and Democracy. Cambridge: CUP. Debord, G. (1987/1967) The Society of the Spectacle. Exeter: Rebel Press. De Jong W., Shaw, M. And Stammers, N. 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Further Sources (indicative) Print Journals -Communication, Culture & Critique -Communication Research -Cultural Studies -European Journal of Communication - European Journal of Social Theory -Information, Communication & Society -Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture -International Journal of Press-Politics -Javnost – The Public -Journal of Communication -Journal of Communication Inquiry -Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society -Media, Culture and Society -New Media & Society -Technology & Culture -Television & New Media Open Access Journals -Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies -Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory -Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest -Cultural Anthropology -Culture Machine -Cyborg Subjects -Ephemera: Therory and politics in Organization -First Monday: Peer-reviewed Journal on the Internet -Global Media Journal -International Journal of Communication -Interface: a Journal for and about Social Movements - JeDEM: eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government -Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication -Journal of Critical Globalization Studies -Journal of e-Media Studies -Journal of Mobile Media -Kurgu – Online International Journal of Communication -Limn -MATRIZes -M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture -MedieKultur -Platform: Journal of Media and Communication -Social Movement Studies -Spaces of Identity -The Fibreculture Journal -Transformations -TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique for a Global Sustainable Society -Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC) -Wired -3CMedia: Journal of Community, Citizen’s and Third Sector Media and Communication 1. Teaching & Learning Methods The course is delivered through lectures supplemented with seminar discussions, workshop sessions (case studies), and in-class tutorials (on blogging and course projects) 2. Attendance Students are expected to attend classes on a regular basis. Please notify the instructor in advance should you miss one or more classes. 3. Grading • Participation (10%) • Project (20%) • Presentation (30%) • Assignment (40%) a. Participation Participation includes active engagement in the class, in productive, on-topic comments while discussing various examples and case studies. b. Project Publish regularly (at least one blog post) each week in the course blog (Flows). The blog posts should reflect to any of the issues raised by the relevant readings. c. Presentation Investigate an alternative media/communication project, run in any of the areas discussed in the first seven weeks. Write a report about it (1500 words) and present your case study in the class (week 8). criteria for evaluation: Category Presentation: material used for the reflection on and description of the project Analysis: evaluation of alternative media/communication practices Reflection on your experience stemming from the investigation the project Grade 25 60 15 100 d. Assignment You will work in groups or pairs doing a research on a topic of your choice related to any of the issues discussed on weeks 9, 10, 11, or 12. During these weeks in-class tutorials will take place to specify topics, tools and perspectives of your research plans. You will be asked to submit an individual paper (on week 14) and discuss as a group your findings in the class. criteria for essay evaluation: Category Presentation Layout Clear typescript Accurate spelling & grammar Structure a clear and logical structure with an introduction, main body and conclusion Reading Adequate bibliography (two marks will be available for each adequate and pertinent citation up to a total of 10 works) Research plan Research questions and approach Findings Analysis and evaluation of the case study Argumentation evidence of an overall argument connecting the material under discussion evidence of original thought in the construction of the argument Grade 5 5 5 5 20 10 30 10 10 100 4. Course policy According to the university policy, students must attend at least 70% of this course in order to receive a grade. Those students absent for more than 30% of the sessions will receive an “NA” as a final grade, and fail the course. Students must read carefully the syllabus of the course. Participation grade is not based on regular class attendance; attending class is a prerequisite for participation. It is good practice to notify the instructor in advance should you miss one or more classes. Students are expected to be active in the learning process, asking and answering questions as well as sharing their viewpoints. Students are responsible for submitting their projects and assignments on time; no extension is granted. No late work is accepted; any work that is late is automatically assigned a grade of zero. Only in extreme cases, pending precise documentation, late work will be taken into consideration. Cheating and plagiarism will be severely punished. Any work found guilty or suspected of plagiarism (the uncredited quotation of someone else’s text, image or ideas) will not be accepted and given zero points. Please refer to the following website for information about proper academic research and writing: http://www.plagiarism.org Plagiarism (!): Plagiarism is using others’ ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information, either it be printed or digital-based (internet). To avoid plagiarism, you must acknowledge the original source by citing references. Students should understand that grades are not open to negotiation. Moreover, asking for a paper to be reassessed does not mean necessarily that a higher grade will be the outcome; in fact, the grade could go lower, or stay the same. Mobile telephones should be turned off (not just put into silent mode) at all times during the class. In all cases students must consult the ‘Bylaws and Regulations’ section on the University’s webpage. --------