This course examines significant theoretical topics that emerge in the ever-growing literature on cyber cultures and identities.
The course focuses on cyber culture and myths, mobile society, online communities and societies, identity and online life, changes of network culture and traditional and demographic factors, digitalization and social movement, new political expression of digital society.
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Course Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes |
Program Learning Outcomes |
Teaching Methods |
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1. Explains the relationship of digitilasation with the society & culture. |
8 |
1, 2, 3 |
A, C |
2. Expresses the effects of technology on society. |
8, 9 |
1, 2, 3 |
A, C |
3. Evaluates the language, culture, identity concepts created by digitilasation. |
8, 14 |
1, 2, 3 |
A, C |
4. Illustrates the function and power of digitilisation in social, cultural & political spheres. |
9, 12, 14 |
1, 2, 3 |
A, C |
5. Discusses the fundamental features and changes in scocieties before and after digitalisation. |
8, 13 |
1, 2, 3 |
A, C |
Course Flow
COURSE CONTENT |
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Week |
Topics |
Study Materials |
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Introduction |
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Historical Review of Social Changes: From Past to Future (From Technological Perspective) |
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Identity and Digitalization |
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Creating Digital Culture |
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5 |
Cyber Culture and Myths |
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6 |
Mobile Society and New Habits |
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7 |
Identity and Online Life |
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8 |
Midterm |
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9 |
Presentations (Given subject) |
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10 |
Online Communities and Societies |
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11 |
New Language: Cyber Language |
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12 |
Digital Security and Private Life |
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13 |
Digitalization and Social Movement |
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14 |
New Political Expression of Digital Society |
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15 |
Digital Natives - Digital Immigrants |
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16 |
Final |
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Recommended Sources
RECOMMENDED SOURCES |
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Textbook |
Communicating across Cultures in Cyberspace, Leah P. Macfadyen, Jörg Roche, Sabine Doff, The Network Society, Van Dijk, J. Sage, London: 2010 İsyan ve umut ağları: İnternet çağında toplumsal hareketler, Manuel Castells, Koç Üni: 2013. |
Additional Resources |
http://www.sigcis.org/files/Cyberculture.pdf https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/pnorris/Acrobat/digitalch10.pdf |
Material Sharing
MATERIAL SHARING |
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Documents |
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Assignments |
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Exams |
There will be one midterm exam, one presentation and final exam. |
Assessment
ASSESSMENT |
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IN-TERM STUDIES |
NUMBER |
PERCENTAGE |
Mid-terms |
1 |
40 |
Presentation |
1 |
10 |
Final Exam |
1 |
50 |
Total |
100 |
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Contribution of fınal examination to overall grade |
50 |
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Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade |
50 |
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Total |
100 |
Course’s Contribution to Program
COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM |
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Describes the conventional and new concepts of journalism field. Ecaluates these concepts and approaches within sample cases. |
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Follows national and international developments and literature, possesses the terminalogy knowledge in native and foreign language. |
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Defines distinct concepts such as journalism ethics and news value and evaluates the changes in these concepts by beholding various parameters. |
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Defines and analyses cultural, economical, political, sociological, psychological and historical developments and events in scope of journalism principles and ethical rules. |
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Questions national and international sectoral problems with differents appraches and interprets the formations. |
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Follows the advances and developments in national and international journalism field, discusses the changes and transformations in the applications in the field of journalism in other coutries. |
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Analyses, evaluates and explains the research executed in the journalism and digital media fields. |
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Studies, discusses and interprets how the relationship between media devises, society and technology is formed. |
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Expresses the fundamentals and the historical, economical and international developments of digital media. |
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Understands the transformation of conventional journalism to digital media, evaluates the historical and economical and political processes. |
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11 |
Describes media convergence, compares and contrasts the periodical conditions and stakeholders. |
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12 |
Organises the contents production and usage of new areas in media, designs the necessary research and knowledge requirements for new media management. |
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X |
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13 |
Focuses on new media theories, exemplifies these theories and follows new perspectives. |
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X |
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14 |
Expresses technical concepts and information of communication sector that is changed due to new media and evolved with digitilization. Describes the required infrastructure necessary to use and remember the knowledge in the field. |
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15 |
Analyses the new production and marketing domains of conventional and digital media, associates these domains with new production forms. |
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ECTS
ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION |
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Activities |
Quantity |
Duration |
Total |
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) |
16 |
3 |
48 |
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) |
14 |
12 |
168 |
Mid-term |
1 |
3 |
3 |
Presentation |
1 |
45 |
45 |
Final |
1 |
3 |
3 |
Total Work Load |
267 |
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Total Work Load / 25 (h) |
8,9 |
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ECTS Credit of the Course |
9 |