Week - 1 |
Introduction: General information about the course description, scope and functioning. |
Week - 2 |
What is the "technology"? |
Week - 3 |
Basic concepts and approaches regarding the relationship between communication, technology and society: Technological determinism, the social shaping of technology, social construction of technology, symptomatic technology approach. |
Week - 4 |
Historical development of communication technologies I: The emergence of telegraph and modern communication networks, Industrial Revolution, telegraph and telephone in the Ottoman Empire. |
Week - 5 |
Historical development of communication technologies II: Development of wireless communication technologies after telegraph and telephone; radio and television broadcasting, today's modern communication technologies and the Internet. |
Week - 6 |
Changing the traditional communication infrastructure: Digitization and the importance of interaction, convergence. |
Week - 7 |
Mainstream approaches to communication technologies: Network society, global village, advanced industrial society, etc. |
Week - 8 |
Critical approaches to communication technologies: Media imperialism, cultural imperialism, dependency theories, desktop colonialism approach. |
Week - 9 |
Information society theories. |
Week - 10 |
Criticisms of information society theories: Knowledge gap approach, knowledge rich and lack of knowledge concepts, surveillance and control society |
Week - 11 |
Information society policies I: International policies regarding the regulation of information and communication infrastructure |
Week - 12 |
Information society policies II: National policies regarding the regulation of information and communication infrastructure. |
Week - 13 |
New communication technologies and social inequality: Digital divide, digital gap |
Week - 14 |
E-government, e-democracy and governance approach |