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  • Contact card and subject information

    Faculty:Humanities and Social Sciences

    Department:Media and Communication Sciences

    Course: Epistemology Media and communication Sciences 

     Academic level: first Master's degree in Communication and Public Relation

    basic: unit

    Credits :5

    Coefficient :3

    Hourly volume: 45 hours

    method: continuous observation + examination

    Teacher :Takieddine Yahia

    Email:takieddine.yahia@univ-msila.dz 

  • objectives

    To teach students theoretical knowledge related to their specialization, help them identify the most important communication theories in their relationship to communication, and know the most important epistemological trends. It is the science of media and communication, that is, the study of science, its hypotheses, and its results, a critical study, and this connotation is linked to the etymological meaning of the word.


  • Diagnostic evaluation and pretest acquisitions

    Required prior knowledge : The student must be familiar with theoretical knowledge and developments that have occurred in the scientific field so that he can link social, cultural and scientific developments to reality.


  • Article content

    The first axis: Introduction to epistemology

    concept of epistemology ,

    Epistemological tasks

    epistemological trends a

    René Descartes

    Emmanuel Kant Emmanuel Kant

    Gaston Bachelard Gaston Bachelard

    Michel Foucault Michel Foucault

    Karl Popper ,

    The second axisEpistemology of media and communication sciences 

    Do the branches of communication deserve to be described as sciences?

    media and communication sciences

    The third axisCommunication epistemology (concepts and models) 

    The problem of models is a problem of concepts

    The triad of communication models

    Positive models

    Systematic models

    Structural models

    The fourth axis ispositivist models 

    Media theory model

    Two-level contact form

    fifth axis  is models Systematicity

    sociometric model

    Reciprocal model

    Interactive model

    Dramatic model

    The sixth axis: Structural models , Ibertext model / Situational model


  • Lecture 1

  • Lecture 2

  • Lecture 3

  • Lecture 4

  • Lecture 5

  • Final evaluation

  • Sources and references


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