This course examines key theoretical approaches to understanding and analyzing the role of digital and interactive media. The course is introducing students to theoretical ideas for understanding, explaining, and predicting media development. The theories and concepts also provide ways to make meaning out of everyday interactions with media technologies and cultures. Students learn an historical perspective that situates new media and theory within broader understandings of technology and its relationship to culture and social change.
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Course Flow
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Introduction |
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Conventional Media |
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New Media |
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Different Perspectives of New Media |
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Theories of New Media |
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Technological Determinism |
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Discussion about the Convergence in the 21th Century |
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Midterm |
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Theories of Technological Change |
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10 |
Users |
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Changes in journalism practice and analysis |
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12 |
Invisible technologies: Platforms, and formats |
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Panopticism and Panoptic environments |
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Cyber Culture |
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15 |
Case Study: Student presentations |
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16 |
Case Study: Student presentations |
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Recommended Sources
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RECOMMENDED SOURCES |
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Textbook |
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media, MIT, 2001. Sally Wyatt. "Non-Users Also Matter: The Construction of Users and Non-Users of the Internet." In How Users Matter. Nelly Oudshoorn and Trevor Pinch, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. |
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Additional Resources |
Thomas Hughes. "The Evolution of Large Technological Systems." In The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Wiebe Bijker, Thomas Hughes, and Trevor Pinch, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987. Merrit Roe Smith. "Technological Determinism in American Culture." In Merritt Roe Smith and Leo Marx, eds. Does Technology Drive History? Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. |
Material Sharing
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MATERIAL SHARING |
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Exams |
There will be one midterm exam, two homework and discussions; two presentation sessions for each student on given topics |
Assessment
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ASSESSMENT |
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IN-TERM STUDIES |
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Mid-terms |
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40 |
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Homework |
2 |
20 |
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Final Presentation |
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40 |
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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 |
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Course’s Contribution to Program
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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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Describes media convergence, compares and contrasts the periodical conditions and stakeholders. |
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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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Focuses on new media theories, exemplifies these theories and follows new perspectives. |
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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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Analyses the new production and marketing domains of conventional and digital media, associates these domains with new production forms. |
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ECTS
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ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION |
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Activities |
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Duration |
Total |
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Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) |
16 |
3 |
48 |
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Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) |
8 |
12 |
96 |
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Mid-term |
1 |
2 |
2 |
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Homework |
2 |
30 |
60 |
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Presentation |
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7 |
14 |
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Total Work Load |
220 |
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Total Work Load / 25 (h) |
8,8 |
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ECTS Credit of the Course |
9 |
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