NMC 450 | Course Introduction and Application Information - Department of New Media and Communication

Course Name

Daily Life and Communication

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
NMC 450	Fall/Spring	3	0	3	4

Prerequisites	None
Course Language	English
Course Type	Elective
Course Level	First Cycle
Mode of Delivery	-
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course	-
National Occupation Classification	-
Course Coordinator	-
Course Lecturer(s)	-
Assistant(s)	-

Course Objectives	This class examines the connections between daily life experiences,cultural practices and communication in the contemporary world. A broad selection of topics; including, fashion, food, street art, tourism, sporting events, music, dance, and public memorials are closely analyzed to shed light into the ways the material culture and cultural practices operate as\nessential mechanisms of communication in the 21st century world. To investigate how meaning is generated and messages are conveyed and interpreted in specific contexts is a prime objective of this course.
Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; Examine the close connectivities between habits of daily life and communication practices. Identify the manners in which changing routines of everyday life are implicated in identity formation and cultural transformation. Analyze the ways emotions and emotive expressions operate as tools of personal and societal interaction. Examine the ways material culture function as a major component of 21st century communication practices. Discuss the culturally constructed differences in gendered communication. Examine cultural activities like public art, sporting events, and collective memory practices as well as food and fashion to understand how they implicitly and explicitly work to convey messages, to form identities and identifications, and to create particular ways of perceiving the social phenomena.
Course Description	This course examines the material culture and everyday cultural practices with an aim to demonstrate their functioning as essential means of communication in the 21st century world.
Related Sustainable Development Goals

Course Category	Core Courses
	Major Area Courses
	Supportive Courses	X
	Media and Management Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

Week	Subjects	Related Preparation
1	Introduction to Daily Life, Communication and Culture
2	Fashion and Communication	Barnard, M. (2013). “Fashion, Clothing, Communication, and Culture.” In Fashion as communication. Routledge, pp. 27-48. Crane, D., & Bovone, L. (2006). Approaches to material culture: The sociology of fashion and clothing. Poetics, 34(6), 319-333. Kuruc, K. (2008). Fashion as communication: A semiotic analysis of fashion on ‘Sex and the City’. Semiotica, 2008(171), 193-214.
3	Cultural Analysis of Emotions as Means of Communication	Kramer, M. W., & Hess, J. A. (2002). Communication rules for the display of emotions in organizational settings. Management Communication Quarterly, 16(1), 66-80. Elfenbein, H. A., & Ambady, N. (2003). Universals and cultural differences in recognizing emotions. Current directions in psychological science, 12(5), 159-164. Hochschild, A. R. (2002). “The sociology of emotion as a way of seeing.” In Emotions in social life, Routledge, pp. 31-44 Jablonka, E., Ginsburg, S., & Dor, D. (2012). The co- evolution of language and emotions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367(1599), 2152-2159.
4	Cultural Construction of Gender Differences in Communication Practices	Hall, J. A., & Matsumoto, D. (2004). Gender differences in judgments of multiple emotions from facial expressions. Emotion, 4(2), 201. Carli, L. L. (2013). Gendered communication and social influence. The Sage handbook of gender and psychology, 199-215. Friebel, G., & Seabright, P.(2011). Do women have longer conversations? telephone evidence of gendered communication strategies. Journal of Economic Psychology, 32(3), 348-356.
5	Food Studies: Communication and Identity Formation Through Eating	McIntosh, W. A. (2013). Sociologies of food and nutrition. Springer Science & Business Media, “Culture and Food”, pp. 17-59. Beardsworth, A., & Keil, T. (2002). Sociology on the menu: An invitation to the study of food and society. Routledge, “The Social Organization of Eating”, pp. 73-99. Brunori, G. (2007). Local food and alternative food networks: a communication perspective. Anthropology of food, (S2).
6	Sports Events as Public Spectacles and Sports News Coverage	Tomlinson, A., & Young, C. (Eds.). (2006). National identity and global sports events: Culture, politics, and spectacle in the Olympics and the Football World Cup. Suny Press, pp. 1- 33. Real, M. (2013). Reflections on communication and sport: On spectacle and mega-events. Communication & Sport, 1(1-2), 30-42. McDonald, M. (2005). Imagining benevolence, masculinity and nation: Tragedy, sport and the transnational marketplace. Sport and corporate nationalisms, 127- 41.
7	Blockbusters, Cable TV, Comics, and Contemporary Fan Cultures	Ford, S. (2014). Fan studies: Grappling with an ‘Undisciplined’discipline. The journal of fandom studies, 2(1), 53-71. Ndalianis, A. (2011). Why comics studies?. Cinema Journal, 50(3), 113- 117. Schauer, B. (2007). Critics, clones and narrative in the franchise blockbuster. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 5(2), 191-210.
8	Music as a Mean of Mass Communication	Miell, D., MacDonald, R. A., Hargreaves, D. J., Pavlicevic, M., Wilson, G., Powles, J., ... & Glennie, E. (2005). Musical communication. Oxford University Press on Demand. “How Do People Communicate Using Music?”, pp. 1-27. Osmond-Smith, D. (1971). Music as communication: Semiology or morphology?. International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, 108-111.
9	Anthropology of Dance	Thomas, H. (2003). Dance, modernity and culture. Routledge, pp. 55-83. Kaeppler, A. L. (2000). II. Dance ethnology and the anthropology of dance. Dance Research Journal, 32(1), 116-125. McRobbie, A. (1991). “Dance narratives and fantasies of achievement.” In Feminism and Youth Culture (pp. 189-219). Palgrave, London.
10	Social Media and Socio-Cultural Change	Bennett, W. L. (2012). The personalization of politics: Political identity, social media, and changing patterns of participation. The annals of the American academy of political and social science, 644(1), 20-39. Guzzetti, B. J. (2006). Cybergirls: Negotiating social identities on cybersites. E- Learning and Digital Media, 3(2), 158- 169.
11	Smartphone Decade and the Culture of Connectivity	Miller, J. (2014). The fourth screen: Mediatization and the smartphone. Mobile Media & Communication, 2(2), 209-226. Pang, H. (2017). Is smartphone creating a better life? Exploring the relationships of the smartphone practices, social capital and psychological well-being among college students. International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication, 7(3), 205-223.
12	Public/Street Art and Politics	Avramidis, K., & Tsilimpounidi, M. (2016). “Graffiti and street art: Reading, writing and representing the city.” In Graffiti and Street Art. Routledge, pp. 17-40. Schacter, R. (2008). An ethnography of iconoclash: An investigation into the production, consumption and destruction of street- art in London. Journal of Material Culture, 13(1), 35-61. Borghini, S., Visconti, L. M., Anderson, L., & Sherry, Jr, J. F. (2010). Symbiotic postures of commercial advertising and street art. Journal of Advertising, 39(3), 113-126.
13	Tourism and the Politics of Traveling as a Field of Communication	Okumus, B., Okumus, F., & McKercher, B. (2007). Incorporating local and international cuisines in the marketing of tourism destinations: The cases of Hong Kong and Turkey. Tourism management, 28(1), 253-261. Meschkank, J. (2011). Investigations into slum tourism in Mumbai: poverty tourism and the tensions between different constructions of reality. GeoJournal, 76(1), 47-62. Kingsbury, P. (2005). Jamaican tourism and the politics of enjoyment. Geoforum, 36(1), 113-132.
14	Review of the Semester	Lawrence A. Wenner, Media, sports, & society, SAGE, 1989.Arthur A. Raney, Jennings Bryant, Handbook of sports and media, Routledge, 2006.
15	Review of the Semester
16	Final Exam

Course Notes/Textbooks

Barnard, M. (2014). Fashion theory: An introduction. London:
Routledge.ISBN-10: 0415496217.; Bendelow, G.,Williams, S. J.
(2002). Emotions in Social Life Critical Themes and
Contemporary Issues. Florence: Taylor and Francis. ISBN: 0-
415-13799-3.; Ryan, M. K., &amp; Branscombe, N. R. (2013).
The Sage handbook of gender and psychology. Los Angeles
(Calif.): Sage publ.ISBN-10: 1446203077.; Thomas, H. (1995).
Dance, modernity and culture: Explorations in the sociology of
dance. London: Routledge.ISBN-10: 0415087945.

Suggested Readings/Materials

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation	1	20
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	3	30
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm
Final Exam	1	50
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
Total

Semester Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)	16		0
Study Hours Out of Class	14	2	28
Field Work			0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques			0
Portfolio			0
Homework / Assignments	3	4	12
Presentation / Jury			0
Project			0
Seminar / Workshop			0
Oral Exam			0
Midterms			0
Final Exam	1	30	30
		Total	118

#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	* Contribution Level
#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	To be able to critically discuss and interpret the theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of the discipline of new media and communication.	-	-	-	X	-
2	To be able to critically interpret theoretical debates concerning the relations between the forms, agents, and factors that play a role in the field of new media and communication.	-	-	X	-	-
3	To have the fundamental knowledge and ability to use the technical equipment and software programs required by the new media production processes.	-	-	-	-	-
4	To be able to gather, scrutinize and scientifically investigate data in the processes of production and distribution.	-	-	-	-	-
5	To be able to use the acquired theoretical knowledge in practice.	-	-	-	-	-
6	To be able to take responsibility both individually and as a member of a group to develop solutions to problems encountered in the field of new media and communication.	-	-	-	-	-
7	To be informed about national, regional, and global issues and problems; to be able to generate problem-solving methods depending on the quality of evidence and research, and to acquire the ability to report the conclusions of those methods to the public.	-	-	-	-	-
8	To be able to critically discuss and draw on theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of other disciplines complementing the field of new media and communication studies.	-	-	X	-	-
9	To be able to develop and use knowledge and skills towards personal and social goals in a lifelong process.	-	-	-	-	-
10	To be able to apply social, scientific and professional ethical values in the field of new media and communication.	-	-	-	-	-
11	To be able to collect datain the areas of new media and communication and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1).	-	-	-	-	-
12	To be able to speak a second foreign language at a medium level of fluency efficiently.	-	-	-	-	-
13	To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise.	-	-	-	-	-