2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Humanities and social science courses
Media Studies A
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Hiroichi Yanase
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- LAH.S112
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Overview: In this lecture, we will deepen comprehensive understanding of the concept of "media". Normally, "media" means "mass media" such as television, newspapers, magazines, radio, web news etc. However, due to the penetration of the Internet and the spread of PCs, mobile phones, smartphones, etc., It became "an era where anyone can become media" that can also receive and transmit information. Everyone was a media consumer and at the same time became a sender. Based on that, we learn the history and current state of mass media, the mechanism and features of new media services such as SNS, the current state of how individuals and organizations behave as media, and acquire basic knowledge on the media.
Aims: Media Study is generally regarded as a liberal arts subject, but the current media is based on IT. For those engaged in the media business, those from science and technology courses at universities and graduate schools stand out. Furthermore, in the case of research workers, the ability to transmit information as media itself is required. Therefore, it is the aim of this lecture to have students of Tokyo Institute of Technology acquire the basic knowledge and a culture of the media.
Course description and aims
① Understand the basic concept of media. ② Understand that the mass media have undergone significant changes due to the appearance of the Internet. ③ Understand the current situation that all individuals and organizations became media. ④ Understand the basics of the business model of media. ⑤ Understand the importance of science journalism. ⑥ Understand the relationship among media, science and technology.
Keywords
Personal Media, Internet, SNS, Mass Media, Smartphone, Advertising Business AR VR Meta
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
This class will be face-to-face.
No textbook will be used, but reference books will be clearly indicated. PowerPoint, video, and audio will be used in class.
Please submit a "Report" with your student ID number, affiliation system, and name" via T2SCOLA after attending each class.
That will be your attendance and evaluation points.
Attendance will be taken by presenting the URL and QR code of the Google Form in class each time and having the students access that form. This Google Form comes with a "questionnaire" each time. This questionnaire will be used for the next class, so please make sure to answer it. So please be sure to bring a computer, smartphone, or tablet device with internet access to class.
Each class will be graded on a 400+ word reflection sheet to be submitted in T2SCALA.
The deadline for submission is midnight of the day of the class.
Please write your reflections on the class on this reflection sheet. If you do not submit the reflection sheet, you will not receive any points even if you only attended the class. Please be careful.
The final exam will be a report. No exam will be given.
The assignment for the final report will be presented after some progress of the class.
Please let me know in advance by e-mail if you will be absent due to corona.
Here is my interview page. Please use it as a reference when registering for the course.
https://educ.titech.ac.jp/ila/news/2020_04/058947.html
Course schedule/Objectives
Course schedule | Objectives | |
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Class 1 | Introduction | Understanding of lesson policy |
Class 2 | What is media? | Understanding the concept of media |
Class 3 | The history of mass media and the Internet revolution | Understanding of relationship between mass media and the Internet |
Class 4 | The spread of mobile phones & SNS and the arrival of "everyone becomes media" era | Understanding about "everyone becomes media" era |
Class 5 | Media as business, Advertising business | Understanding of advertising industry and charging methods as a business model of media |
Class 6 | Science Journalism and Engineering Journalism | Understanding of science and technology journalism |
Class 7 | A summary on media studies | Understanding on media studies |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Do not use any particular textbook. We plan to prepare print each time
Reference books, course materials, etc.
"Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man" (Marshall · McLuhan) and others
Evaluation methods and criteria
Attend scores on attendance and reports.
Class participation point(Attendance and Assignment achievement) 70 points Report point 30 points
Related courses
- LAH.S213 : Media Studies B
- LAH.S312 : Media Studies C
Prerequisites
特になし
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
yanase.h.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp
Other
Should the number of applicants for this course exceed the limit, a lottery system will be used to determine which students are admitted. Be sure to attend the first class.