The objective of this course is to examine literary texts, particularly in Turkish literature, as communication practices by analyzing their relationship with transformations in media technologies within a critical and theoretical framework. Throughout the course, students will read the history of communication, spanning from oral culture to the printing press, radio, and digital platforms, through selected texts from Turkish literature. They will analyze how the dominant mode of communication in each period shaped literary production, readership, censorship practices, and social memory. Students are expected to develop an academic research project that critically and deeply investigates a specific communication transformation through selected literary works.

This course examines the historical transformations in communication technologies, their impacts on Turkish literature, and the responses of literature to these transformations. Core topics include oral culture and the epic tradition, the monopoly of writing and knowledge, the printing press and the public sphere, the language of journalism, the construction of the novel and its readership, censorship and implicit narrative strategies, radio and the public sphere, the satirical press and opposition, magazine culture, television and popular culture, and the digital transformation alongside new forms of authorship. The course connects the conceptual frameworks of communication theorists such as Innis, Ong, McLuhan, and Habermas with concrete texts from Turkish literature.