2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Humanities and social science courses
Essence of Humanities and Social Sciences35:Media Studies
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Hiroichi Yanase
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-6 Wed
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- LAH.S431
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 1Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Overview: In this lecture, we will deepen comprehensive understanding of "media". Until the 20th century, "media" often means "mass media" such as television, newspapers, magazines, radio, web news and more. With the penetration of the Internet and the spread of PCs, mobile phones, smartphones, etc., the development of SNS etc., the 21st century became the "everyone becomes a media" era. In the light of this change, we learn the history and current state of mass media, the mechanism and features of new media services such as SNS, and learn basic knowledge on the media.
Aims: Media Study tends to be generally considered as a literary subject, but the media is based on science and engineering skills and services including IT. Media is also an area that science students can be directly involved in the future. Furthermore, in the case of a research position, personal ability to transmit information through media is required. It is the aim of this lecture to have students in the master's course of Tokyo Institute of Technology acquire the basic knowledge and a culture of the media.
Course description and aims
① Obtain basic knowledge about media. ② Understand the concept of media. ③ Understand that the mass media have undergone significant changes due to the appearance of the Internet. ④ Understand the current situation that all individuals and organizations became media. ⑤ Understand occupation in media industry.
Keywords
Internet, SNS, Smartphone, Platform, Mass Media, Personal Media AI AR VR Game
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Each class will be based on a face-to-face meeting. There is a possibility that guest lecturers will be invited to the class.
No textbook will be used, but reference books will be clearly indicated. PowerPoint, video, and audio will be used in class.
At the end of each class, you will be required to take attendance via Google Forms and submit a "Report" with your student ID number, affiliation, and name via T2SCHOLA. These two items will be considered for attendance and evaluation points.
In some cases, a Google Form survey will be conducted in class and the results will be used in class.
In addition, you will be asked to submit a report of at least 1,000 words at the end of the class. This will also be used for grading. The assignment for the report will be clearly stated in class.
Please refer to my interview here for reference.
https://educ.titech.ac.jp/ila/news/2020_04/058947.html
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Relationship between media and science and technology | Relationship between media and science and technology. Understanding of science and technology journalism |
| Class 7 | Tokyo Institute of Technology and Media | Comprehensive understanding of the media. |
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 textbooks in particular.
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) 60 points Report point 40 points
Related courses
- LAH.S112 ： Media Studies A
- LAH.S213 ： Media Studies B
- LAH.S312 ： Media Studies C
Prerequisites
None
Other
No classes will be given on April 9(Wed).
Seven total classes will be held for this course: April 16 (Wed), April 23 (Wed), May 7 (Wed), May 14 (Wed), May 21(Wed), May 28(Wed).June 4(Wed)
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.