FPF:UHVD0008 Communication and Society - Course Information
UHVD0008 Communication and Society
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaWinter 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Martin Pelc, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. David Radek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Martin Pelc, Ph.D.
Institute of Historical Sciences – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Prerequisites
- For students second and third years.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Cultural History (programme FPF, B7105 HiVe)
- Course objectives
- The lecture series will trace the communication systems and their interdependencies from the antiquity to the rise of the media age. Attention is paid to the interconnection of the oral, written and visual communication.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction
2. Communication in the age of early civilizations
3. The Middle Ages, media, forms of communications
4. Book printing and communications revolution of the early Modern Era
5. Communication in the emerging industrialization
6. The discovery of electricity, the telegraph, telephone and radio
7. Role of mass media in modern times
8. Media between information and entertainment
9. Mass media and political power
10. Cyberspace, internet and global networks
11. Completion of the course
- 1. Introduction
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Borovský, T. Kláštery, panovník a zakladatelé na středověké Moravě. Brno 2005. info
- BEDNAŘÍK, Petr. Dějiny českých médií. Od počátku do současnosti. Praha, 2011. info
- Dvořák, Tomáš (ed.). Kapitoly z dějin a teorie médií. Praha, 2010. info
- Meyrowitz, Joshua. Všude a nikde. Vliv elektronických médií na sociální chování. Praha, 2006. info
- Thompson, John B. Média a modernita. Sociální teorie médií. Praha, 2004. info
- Zielinski, Siegfried. Archeölogie der Medien. Zur Tiefenzeit des technischen Hörens und Sehens. Hamburg, 2002. info
- briggs, Asha - Burke, Peter. A Social History of the Media. From Gutenberg to the internet. Cambridge, 2000. info
- MCLUHAN, Marshall. Jak rozumět médiím: extenze člověka. Praha, 1991. info
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- Passing a final written exam.
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2018, recent)
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