COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND MEDIA
- Course
- COMM637 - COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND MEDIA
- Department
- Communication and Media Studies - English - PhD
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 7
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
Course Description
This course explores the intricate relationship between collective memory and media in shaping societal narratives and cultural identity. Students will examine how various forms of media—including literature, film, television, social media, and digital archives—contribute to the construction, preservation, and transformation of shared memories across generations and communities.
COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND MEDIA
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction |
| Week 2 | Week 1 – Introduction: Why Collective Memory? Why Media? |
| Week 3 | Week 2 – Theoretical Foundations of Collective Memory: Maurice Halbwachs and social frameworks of memory |
| Week 4 | Week 3– Theoretical Foundations of Collective Memory: Assmann: communicative vs cultural memory |
| Week 5 | Week 4– Theoretical Foundations of Collective Memory: Memory as a social construction |
| Week 6 | Week 5– Memory, Power, and Ideology |
| Week 7 | Week 6– Media as archive, narrator, and witness; Agenda-setting and memory framing |
| Week 8 | Week 7– Mediation of the past; Journalism, Trauma, and Memory: Trauma reporting and anniversary journalism |
| Week 9 | Week 8– Midterm Exams Week |
| Week 10 | Week 9– Midterm Exams Week |
| Week 11 | Week 10– Film, Television, and Historical Narratives |
| Week 12 | Week 11–Gender, Identity, and Marginalized Memories |
| Week 13 | Week 12– Digital Memory and Social Media |
| Week 14 | Week 13– Methodologies in Memory and Media Research |
| Week 15 | Week 14– Future of Memory Studies & Final Presentations |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Halbwachs, M. (1980). The Collective Memory, (Çev. F.J. Ditter ve V.Y. Ditter), New York: Harper Colophon.
- 02 Assmann, J. (2011). Cultural memory and early civilization: Writing, remembrance, and political imagination. Cambridge University Press.
- 03 Olick, J. K. (1999). Collective memory: The two cultures. Sociological theory, 17(3), 333-348.
- 04 Çiftçi, D. (2019). Collective Memory and Media the Case of Missing Persons Issues in Cyprus, Ankara: Pegem Akadem
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