15FLFL028 - Media Epistemology

Course specification
Course title Media Epistemology
Acronym 15FLFL028
Study programme Philosophy
Module
Type of study first degree undergraduate academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)
    ESPB 3.0 Status
    Condition No additional requirements. Oblik uslovljenosti
    The goal The students will become acquainted with the epistemological reflecting on the common phenomenon of mediality and the specificity of the epistemological approach in the consideration of several media.
    The outcome The students are enabled to recognize the relevance of media not only for transferring, distributing and storing knowledge in different discourses and social institutions but also for its forming and accepting. They will recognize mediality as a very constitutive trait of the knowledge and the media as poles which hold the building of (scientific) knowledge.
    Contents
    Contents of lectures The task of epistemology of media: the study of forming and transfer of knowledge by media (writing, print, photography, film, radio, television, internet etc.). Wide and narrow sense of »media«. Transfer of information and communication. Media and public opinion. The problem of media deception. Simulacra and simulation. Transformation of perception and cognition determined by use of media. Medial construction of reality. Elimination of stereotypes regarding the exclusively negative influence of media on the world view of its users. Critics of media (discussion of its adequacy). Comparison with similar types of theory: theory of »objective mind« as an early form of epistemology of media (Hegel, Hans Freyer, Nicolai Hartmann). Medial philosophy of mind. Systems theory and radical constructivism. Theories of social memory.
    Contents of exercises Discussion of seleceted texts.
    Literature
    1. Adorno, Th. W.: Two essays about television.
    2. Barthes, R.: Camera Lucida.
    3. Baudrillard, J.: Symbolic Exchange and Death.
    4. Virilio, P.: The Vision Machine.
    5. Simmel, G.: The Philosophy of Money
    6. McLuhan, M.: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
    7. Plato: Phaedrus.
    8. Flusser, V.: Communicology.
    Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
    Lectures Exercises OTC Study and Research Other classes
    1 2
    Methods of teaching Dialogical method, text analysis
    Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
    Pre obligations Points Final exam Points
    Activites during lectures 15 Test paper
    Practical lessons 20 Oral examination 50
    Projects
    Colloquia 15
    Seminars
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