Předmět Culture, Media and Identity in Global Societies (ZUR393c)

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Cíl

This course is an introduction (undergraduates and postgraduates) to main questions brought as a result of globalization process. We will enquire how global and individual levels have been interwoven claiming a higher emphasis on the specific aspect of each. Touching on identity construction as well as media’s importance, the course aims to make students thinking about their own place in their society as a global citizen.Students are required to bring any device for having access to Internet in class as there will be quizzes using Kahoot as part of the overall grading.No previous knowledge is needed. Classes are taught in English.

Osnova

1. WHEN CULTURE AND SOCIETY MEET UPIn this session, we will devote some time to coin the term culture and try to understand relationships between culture and society. For doing so, we will present input of both humanities and social sciences to culture definition. A stress will be made on overlaps in the cultural object in order to present cultures as networks and ways of expressing ourselves.Example: Greetings – How Are You Today?2. THEORIZING CULTUREBy browsing different sociological traditions scrutinizing the relationship between culture and meaning, we will figure out that culture actually gives meaning to individuals’ life. In fact, every cultural activity channels meaning that provide a reason for living.Example: Beliefs and Video Games – What do you believe in?3. CULTURE AS SOCIAL CREATION IN A GLOBAL SOCIETYAs our course is entangled in global societies, we will approach a broader perspective in this session underlying the fact that cultures are collective production. We will stress on the collective aspect of culture creation in order to figure out the interrelation between the macro level and the micro level of the society.Example: Global Geek Culture4. TRANSLATING CULTURAL PRODUCTS FOR MAKING SENSEThis session will move to another angle that is the audience’s perspective. In effect, we will envision culture through communication and representation. Talking about signs and meanings, and about its context, but also about the ability of the audience to deconstruct and reconstruct a message, we will begin to encompass further actors in culture production. Therefore, culture is based on an exchange between producers and receivers.Example: New Languages - Do You Speak MSN? :D5. CULTURE AS A WAY TO PRODUCE AND REPRODUCE INEQUALITIESThis session will bring a new aspect to the topic by mentioning power relationship related to culture. In real, we will widen the scope by talking about globalization and its effects on inequality. Plus, resistance strategies of individuals will be exposed.Example: Video Gaming for DummiesWorkshop Session.6. POWER, CULTURES AND RESISTANCEBringing the input of cultural studies here, we will go through the topic of politics to identify what politic is. How is power translated in politics?The emergence of the defense of identity rights carried many cultural politics topics. Bound between power and performance will be raised here as we will study the expression of power with buildings too.Example: Video Gamers are Deviants7. IDENTITIES, PROBLEMS, AND MOVEMENTSThis section will talk about the subtle process of construction of a social problem and its consequences. We will look at all standpoints of some social global problems in order to understand how their construction benefits some institutions or others. Retracing links between actors and events will help us to understand the power relationships that shape the display of information regarding this problem.Example: The Silent Revolution of Video Gamers8. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY IN A GLOBAL WORLD. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!This course will be devoted to the relationship between space and representations, plus the meaning which is conveys in these areas. The point is to study relationships of power, knowledge and meaning in places, old, new and renewed. Notions of space, place and landscape, will be associated to power by explaining meanings channeled through space.Example: The Virtual Third Place9. CONSUMPTION AND INFORMATION SOCIETY. YOU ARE WHAT YOU BUY!Consumption and its understanding will attract our attention during this section of the course as we aim to explain the reasons why consumption is so prevalent in our societies. What is the consumption of products? What does it mean to buy something? Do we all purchase similar items for the same reasons? We will approach the concept of ‘cathedrals of consumption’ to study enchantment, or dis-enchantment, of our world thanks to consumption.Example: Iphone or Galaxy?10. CULTURE AND CONNECTION. ARE WE ALL CONNECTED?This section will absorb our questions regarding information society and its relation to culture. Networks connected us all and therefore gave birth to the ‘global village’. We are today, supposed to be all together all the time. So why do we feel so left alone?Example: “Avalon” by Mamoru Oshii (2001)11. SUBCULTURES, POST CULTURES AND FAN CULTURES. AM I WHO/WHAT I LIKE?This course will concentrate on how culture is received by audience and critics. We will closely look on how moral panics around some cultural products have been established without any foundation during the past two centuries.Example: Moral panic around cultural products (Treasure Island, Rock’N Roll, TV, Video games, SNS)Workshop Session.12. CULTURED AND COMMUNICATIVE BODIES. IS YOUR BODY A COMMUNICATION TOOL?The last section of this course will be devoted to visual culture and more especially to the presentation of the body and its meaning. The representation and perception of the body have greatly evolved through times and cultures. Still today, the body is very subversive aspect of culture. This section will touch on gendered bodies, visual bodies, and political bodies. We will have a closer look to advertisement ways of presenting body.Example: Fashion, Pictures and Lies.13. VISUAL CULTURE AND POWER IN RL AND VL. I BELIEVE IN WHAT I SEE. REALLY?The last section of this course will be devoted to visual culture. Everything is now visual, visible and seen. In the past, pictures stood for showing the reality whereas they present now a better reality. Seeing and being are in constant competition, what does it mean to see something? So to be seen? What the city has to give to be seen? Who watch what and why?Example: Advertise YourSelf

Literatura

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Požadavky

No previous knowledge is needed. Classes are taught in English.

Garant

prof. PhDr. David Šmahel, Ph.D.

Vyučující

Pascaline Lorentz, Ph.D.Mgr. Lukas Blinka, PhD.Mgr. Pavel Sedláček