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Course Code: 
JRN 560
Course Type: 
Area Elective
P: 
3
Lab: 
0
Credits: 
3
ECTS: 
8
Course Language: 
English
Course Objectives: 

This course will provide students with historical and sociological recollection and memory purpose of teaching practice in a digital way.

Course Content: 

Students will learn and discuss about memory, social memory issues, social events and remembering traumas, forgetting to remember or patterns of memory formation, variables of different societal the formation of the memory in the structures.

Teaching Methods: 
1: Anlatım, 2: Soru-Cevap, 3: Tartışma
Assessment Methods: 
A: Sınav, B: Deney, C: Ödev

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

1. He/She analysis the digital events, which affect public, from different perspectives.

2, 3, 7

1, 2, 3

A, C

2. He/She learns how different society structures are remembered.

4, 6, 8

1, 2, 3

A, C

3. He/She expresses the principles of Journalism.

3, 4, 5, 6

1, 2, 3

A, C

4. He/She interprets the  factors affecting news judgment, with case studies.

3, 4, 5, 8

1, 2, 3

A, C

5. He/She discuss the Digital Memory and Journalism in details.

4, 5, 8, 10

1, 2, 3

A, C

Course Flow

COURSE CONTENT

Week

Topics

Study Materials

1

Introduction

 

2

Description of Memory and Digital Memory

Reading

3

Memory- Culture- Society

Discussion

4

Theories about Memory and Digital Memory

Reading

5

Agenda Setting and Journalism

Reading: The Social Psychology of Stereotypes: The Implications for Media

Audiences by Bradley Gorham

6

Infotainment and propaganda

Movie: “Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism” (110 minutes)

7

Journalism Ethics in the Digital Age

Reading an article

8

Midterm

 

9

Plagiarism and Fabrication in Digital Journalism

Movie: “Shattered Glass” (90 minutes)

10

Digital Memory and Emotions

Reading: Emotional Quagmires by Carolyn Ellis

11

Trauma: Confrontation With The Past And Showdown

Reading: The ethics of fear and how it undermines an informed citizenry

Poynter.org 2012 Digital Media Ethics Symposium by Danah Boyd

12

Journalistic affects of corporate media ownership and concentration

Movie: “Myth of the Liberal Media” (60 minutes)

13

Digital Memory: Remembrance In The Digital Society

Reading an Article

14

Popular Images

Presentation an Article and Discussion

15

Case Study: Student Presentations

Presentations

16

Final Exam

 

Recommended Sources

RECOMMENDED SOURCES

Textbook

On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age edited by : M. Neiger,O. Meyers,E. Zandberg, Springer, April 2011

Additional Resources

Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory, Edited by: Astrid Erll, Ann Rigney

The Social Psychology of Stereotypes: The Implications for Media Audiences by Bradley Gorham

The ethics of fear and how it undermines an informed citizenry Poynter.org 2012 Digital Media Ethics Symposium by Danah Boyd

Material Sharing

MATERIAL SHARING

Documents

The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust: Gender, Culture and Memory, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Assignments

Presentations and Midterm

Exams

There will be one midterm exam, two homework and discussions; two presentation sessions for each student on given topics.

Assessment

ASSESSMENT

IN-TERM STUDIES

NUMBER

PERCENTAGE

Mid-terms

1

40

Homework

2

20

Final Presentation

1

40

Total

 

100

Contrıbution of fınal examination to overall grade

 

50

Contrıbution of in-term studies to overall grade

 

50

Total

 

100

Course’s Contribution to Program

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

No

Program Learning Outcomes

Contribution

1

2

3

4

5

1

Describes the conventional and new concepts of journalism field. Ecaluates these concepts and approaches within sample cases.

 

 

 

 

 

2

Follows national and international developments and literature, possesses the terminalogy knowledge in native and foreign language.

 

 

 

X

 

3

Defines distinct concepts such as journalism ethics and news value and evaluates the changes in these concepts by beholding various parameters.

 

 

 

X

 

4

Defines and analyses cultural, economical, political, sociological, psychological and historical developments and events in scope of journalism principles and ethical rules.

 

 

 

X

 

5

Questions national and international sectoral problems with differents appraches and interprets the formations.

 

 

 

 

X

6

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.

 

 

 

X

 

7

Analyses, evaluates and explains the research executed in the journalism and digital media fields.

 

 

 

X

 

8

Studies, discusses and interprets how the relationship between media devises, society and technology is formed.

 

 

 

 

 

9

Expresses the fundamentals and the historical, economical and international developments of digital media.

 

 

 

 

 

10

Understands the transformation of conventional journalism to digital media, evaluates the historical and economical and political processes.

 

 

 

X

 

11

Describes media convergence, compares and contrasts the periodical conditions and stakeholders.

 

 

 

 

 

12

Organises the contents production and usage of new areas in media, designs the necessary research and knowledge requirements for new media management. 

 

 

 

 

 

13

Focuses on new media theories, exemplifies these theories and follows new perspectives.

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

15

Analyses the new production and marketing domains of conventional and digital media, associates these domains with new production forms.

 

 

 

 

 

ECTS

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION

Activities

Quantity

Duration
(Hour)

Total
Workload
(Hour)

Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)

16

3

48

Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)

8

10

80

Mid-term

1

2

2

Homework

2

30

60

Presentation

2

5

10

Total Work Load

   

200

Total Work Load / 25 (h)

   

8

ECTS Credit of the Course

   

8