COORDINATOR:
DR. EMRAH DOĞAN (BİTLİS EREN UNIVERSITY)
SENTHAN SELVARAJAH (CENTER FOR MEDIA, HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACEBUILDING )
Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass communication, communication, communication sciences, and communication studies. Researchers may also develop and employ theories and methods from disciplines including cultural studies, rhetoric (including digital rhetoric), philosophy, literary theory, psychology, political science, political economy, economics, sociology, anthropology, social theory, art history and criticism, film theory, feminist theory, and information theory.
- Anthropology of media
- Journalism
- Media ecology
- Mass media
- Media culture
- Mass communication
- Multimedia literacy
- Transparency (humanities)
- Media literacy
- Media education
- Media psychology
- Harold Innis’s time- and space-bias
- Market for loyalties theory
- Marshall McLuhan’s tetrad of media effects
- Mediatization (media)
- Media-system dependency
- Media echo chamber
- Narcotizing dysfunction
- Social aspects of television
- Sociology
- The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
- Uses and gratifications theory
- Media psychology
