The present seminar locates and analyzes the political, social and cultural parametres that are "hidden" behind the news as appeared in Turkish newspapers, webpages and other sources. The students are required to have a good mastery of Turkish language and to have attented and eamined at least at one of the following courses: "Turkey: Culture and Society", "Turkey: Language, Culture and Society".

This seminar works as a supplement to the “prerequisite” courses and aims at offering a more “deep” knowledge to the students regarding of the information already obtained. Also, the seminar focuses on a better critical approach of the mentioned information so as the students to be able to use it as a “tool” in translation and/or in their possible postgraduate studies.

The students learn to collect and analyze complex data critically but always in relation to the information given to them during the educational procedure. The seminar’s main target is the promotion of free thought and of the creative and deductive way of thinking.

• The creation and the course in time of the Turkish Republic I
• The creation and the course in time of the Turkish Republic II
• Media and the news production in Turkey
• The relation of the Media to politics in Turkey
• The creation of the “Other” and the polarization in politics and Media
• Assignment of projects, collection and translation of relevant material
• Assignment of projects, collection and translation of relevant material
• Assignment of projects, collection and translation of relevant material
• Presentation of the projects’ progress
• Writing and commenting critically the translated material
• Writing and commenting critically the translated material
• Writing and commenting critically the translated material
• Final projects’ presentation

Byrne, C. et. al. (2013). “Online Ideology: A Comparison of Website Communication and Media Use”, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 18: 137–153.

Chia, Stella and Cenite M. (2012). Biased News or Biased Public: An Examination of
Audiences’ Perceived News Bias in An Authoritarian Press System, Journalism
Studies, 13/1, 124-140.

Çarkoğlu A. ve Toprak, B. (2006). Değişen Türkiye’de Din, Toplum, Siyaset,
İstanbul: TESEV, http://research.sabanciuniv.edu/5851/1/DegisenTRdeDinToplum-Siyaset.pdf

Geçer, E. (2015), Türk Dizileri Üzerine Kültürel ve İdeolojik Bir Değerlendirme: “Made in Turkey” , Mütefekkir Aksaray Üniversitesi İslami İlimler Fakültesi Dergisi, C.2, S.3, pp.13-23, Aksaray.

Kiriş, H. M. (2011). Parti Sisteminde Kutuplaşma ve Türk Parti Sistemi Örneği,
Amme İdaresi Dergisi, 44/4, 33-67.

Stewart, A. (2001). Theories of power and domination. The politics of empowerment in late modernity. London Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE.

Van Dijk, T. A. (2013) “Discourse-Cognition-Society” in Christopher Hart & Piotr Cap (Eds). (2014) Contemporary Studies in Critical Discourse Analysis, pp. 121-146. London; Bloomsbury

Wodak, Ruth, (2012).“Language, Power and Identity”, Language Teaching, 45(2), p. 215-233.

Τσόμσκι, Ν. (1997) Κατασκευάζοντας συναίνεση. Αθήνα: Παρατηρητής.

Φουκώ, Μ. (2008) Το μάτι της εξουσίας. Θες/νίκη: Βάνιας.

https://amitos.library.uop.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/5324

https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/ekke/article/viewFile/7092/6811

Face to face. The Seminar is of interactive nature during which texts from Media in general, are presented, analyzed and criticized.

After the assignment of projects, that relate to the translation and analysis of specific fragments from the Media and which have to do with specific subjects during a given time-period, the students present gradually their research outcomes so as a environment for discussion and criticism to be created.

The use of new technologies focuses on the presentation of powerpoints, videos and interviews that are relevant to the material taught.

No evaluation is provided since this course provides 0 credits.