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Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 7	QF-EHEA: Second Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 7

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code:

UNI362

Course Name:

Memory and Culture in New Media Ecology

Semester:

Spring

Course Credits:

ECTS

Language of instruction:

English

Course Condition:

Does the Course Require Work Experience?:

Yes

Type of course:

University Elective

Course Level:

Bachelor

TR-NQF-HE:7. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:Second Cycle

EQF-LLL:7. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

E-Learning

Course Coordinator:

Doç. Dr. FERİDE ZEYNEP GÜDER

Course Lecturer(s):

Feride Zeynep Güder

Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives:

This course aims to focus on human memory through advances in technology and cultural transformations of contemporary society in digital networks. The course is designed to embrace both theoretical arguments and narratives in the new media ecology through interdisciplinary perspectives that focus on the sociological, political, philosophical, ontological, and cultural trajectories of technology. Students are expected to analyse digital media contents, narrative genres, collective and personal memory, and historical letters, as well as some topics such as hive mind, posthumanism, artificial intelligence, collective trauma, connective turns, myths, hatred, healing discourses, post-truth, and conflicting ideologies.

Course Content:

This course aims to discuss human memory through advances in technology and cultural transformations of contemporary society in digital networks. The course is designed to embrace both theoretical arguments and narratives in the New Media Ecology and Critical Memory studies through interdisciplinary perspectives that focus on the major debates and theoretical frameworks of the analyses of digital society and identifies and analyses key epistemological, sociological, political, philosophical, and ontological assumptions underlying social research as well as cultural trajectories of technology.
The course examines the impact of digital culture and critically assesses technology’s role in society and memory. It explores how digital media challenges traditional notions of identity, community, the body, politics, and personal relationships.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Students taking this course will be able to discuss the relationship between Memory and the Digital Revolution.
2) Students will be able to analyze the digitalized world with a focus on memory and culture through sociological, political, philosophical and cultural aspects of technology and networked popular culture.
3) Students will understand specific concepts and terminologies related to memory and culture in New Media Ecology.
4) Students will be able to read and speak on specific topics related to the course content, such as artificial intelligence and hive minds, collective trauma, connective returns, cultural memory, cultural identity and ideologies, tangible and intangible memories, myths and digital narratives, media memory, hatred and forgiveness, healing discourses and conflicting ideologies.
5) Students will be able to critically analyze and discuss memory and culture.
6) Students will be able to follow debates on historical materialism, philosophy of history, the role of redemption and peaceful discourse in digital media. Students will be able to analyze the post-truth era and develop their own perspectives on presentism and cynical attitudes towards history.
7) Students will be able to engage in discussions on various topics related to futuristic aspects of memory: Astrobiology, Transhumanism, Posthumanism, Cyborgs, Anthropocentrism, Negantropocene, Multi-planetary life and Cyberpunk.
8) Students will talk about anthropocentric life from anthropocentrism to posthumanism.
9) Students will be able to read and talk about Big Data, Data Mining, Data Management, Data Surveillance and Dystopia. The course also explores the darker sides of digital media history narratives.
10) Students can develop critical reading skills through their own interpretations, focusing on the cultural archaeology of popular digital culture and discourses on digital media.

Course Flow Plan

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction of the Course. What are the merits and demerits of the digital, networked, information Age? Retrospective analysis of the cultural meaning of technology.
2)	What is Media Ecology? Introduction to Memory Studies. Collective Memory and The main components of collective memory and cultural identity. Looking critical to Digital Age and Culture. Main Discussions. Digital Storytelling, Media, and Technological Determinism: The economic, political, and cultural transition as far-reaching as the Industrial Revolution of the early 19th century. The emergence of urban print culture in the 15th. the changing roles of the reader and writer in interactive digital texts and the inherently collaborative nature of digital narratives. Algorithms, Future of AI. Günther Anders: The Role of Technology, Heidegger Gestell, Bernard Stiegler on Techniques.
3)	A meta-level discussion of some important key terminologies: Hive mind, posthumanism, artificial intelligence, collective trauma, binding turns, myths, hatred, healing discourses, post-truth and conflicting ideologies, competitive memory, immanent subject, Social Media, Hypermedia, post-memory, Digital Postmodernism, Digital Aesthetics, Neuroscience, Neuropolitics, Neuropsychology, Technocommunication, Futurism, Artificial Consciousness, AI, VR, XR, MR, Metaverse, Transhumanism, Posthumanism, Cyborgs, Anthropocentrism, Negantropocene, Cyberpunk, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Management, Dataveillance, Dystopia.
4)	Assman: Individual, Social, and Cultural Memory, (pdf) Analysis of Media Memory, Media Memory: Theory and Methodologies, Halbwachs's thought, the philosophy of Henri Bergson, Annales school of social and intellectual history: the historians Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination-Jan Assmann
5)	Media Memory, Ethics, and Witnessing, New Media Memory, Memory, and Digital Media: Six Dynamics of the Globital Memory Field
6)	Media Memory and Popular Culture, Media Memory, Journalism, and Journalistic Practice, Journalism as an Agent of Prospective Memory, Archive, Media, Trauma
7)	Midterm
8)	Archive, Media, Trauma, Students’ analysis of Digital Media Discourses and presentation on Memory and Culture in New Media Ecology
9)	Students' presentations on the analysis of Digital Media Discourses and Memory and Culture in New Media Ecology
10)	Students' presentations on the analysis of Digital Media Discourses and Memory and Culture in New Media Ecology
11)	Students' presentations on the analysis of Digital Media Discourses and Memory and Culture in New Media Ecology
12)	Students' presentations on the analysis of Digital Media Discourses and Memory and Culture in New Media Ecology
13)	Students' presentations on the analysis of Digital Media Discourses and Memory and Culture in New Media Ecology
14)	Students' presentations on the analysis of Digital Media Discourses and Memory and Culture in New Media Ecology
15)	Evaluation of Memory and Culture Debates in the Context of New Media Ecology

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

Assman, Jan, Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination-Jan assman
Assman, Jan, Communicative and Cultural Memory.
Media Ecologies On Media Memory:
Halbwachs, Maurice, On Collective Memory
Critique of Cynical Reason,
Crary, Jonathan Yeryüzü Yakılıp Yıkılırken
Ranciere Distribution of the Sensible,
Jeffrey K. Olick Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi Daniel Levy, The Collective Memory Reader, Oxford,
Penley, Constance Andrew Ross, editors, Technoculture
Sahai, S. (2023). The Collective Memory. The Southeast Asian Review.
Miller, Vincent. Understanding digital culture
Simon Lindgren, Digital Media, and Society,
Grant David Bollmer, Theorizing Digital Cultures

References:

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Course Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Program Outcomes
1) When Istinye University Faculty of Medicine student is graduated who knows the historical development of medicine, medical practices, and the medical profession and their importance for society.
2) knows the normal structure and function of the human body at the level of molecules, cells, tissues, organs and systems.
3) is capable of systematically taking an accurate and effective social and medical history from their patients and make a comprehensive physical examination.
4) knows the laboratory procedures related to diseases; In primary care, the necessary material (blood, urine, etc.) can be obtained from the patient with appropriate methods and can perform the necessary laboratory procedures for diagnosis and follow-up or request laboratory tests.
5) can distinguish pathological changes in structure and functions during diseases from physiological changes and can Interpret the patient's history, physical examination, laboratory and imaging findings, and arrive at a pre-diagnosis and diagnosis of the patient's problem.
6) knows, plans and applies primary care and emergency medical treatment practices, rehabilitation stages.
7) can keep patient records accurately and efficiently, know the importance of confidentiality of patient information and records, and protects this privacy.
8) knows the clinical decision-making process, evidencebased medicine practices and current approaches.
9) knows and applies the basic principles of preventive health measures and the protection of individuals from diseases and improving health, and recognizes the individual and/or society at risk, undertakes the responsibility of the physician in public health problems such as epidemics and pandemics.
10) knows the biopsychosocial approach, evaluates the causes of diseases by considering the individual and his / her environment.
11) is capable of having effective oral and/or written communication with patients and their relatives, society and colleagues.
12) knows the techniques, methods and rules of researching. It contributes to the creation, sharing, implementation and development of new professional knowledge and practices by using science and scientific method within the framework of ethical rules.
13) can collect health data, analyze them, present them in summary, and prepare forensic reports.
14) knows the place of physicians as an educator, administrator and researcher in delivery of health care. It takes responsibility for the professional and personal development of own and colleagues in all interdisciplinary teams established to increase the health level of the society.
15) knows employee health, environment and occupational safety issues and takes responsibility when necessary.
16) knows health policies and is able to evaluate their effects in the field of application.
17) keeps medical knowledge up-to-date within the framework of lifelong learning responsibility.
18) Applies own profession by knowing about ethical obligations and legal responsibilities, prioritizing human values and with self-sacrifice throughout own medical life.

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Average	3 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	When Istinye University Faculty of Medicine student is graduated who knows the historical development of medicine, medical practices, and the medical profession and their importance for society.
2)	knows the normal structure and function of the human body at the level of molecules, cells, tissues, organs and systems.
3)	is capable of systematically taking an accurate and effective social and medical history from their patients and make a comprehensive physical examination.
4)	knows the laboratory procedures related to diseases; In primary care, the necessary material (blood, urine, etc.) can be obtained from the patient with appropriate methods and can perform the necessary laboratory procedures for diagnosis and follow-up or request laboratory tests.
5)	can distinguish pathological changes in structure and functions during diseases from physiological changes and can Interpret the patient's history, physical examination, laboratory and imaging findings, and arrive at a pre-diagnosis and diagnosis of the patient's problem.
6)	knows, plans and applies primary care and emergency medical treatment practices, rehabilitation stages.
7)	can keep patient records accurately and efficiently, know the importance of confidentiality of patient information and records, and protects this privacy.
8)	knows the clinical decision-making process, evidencebased medicine practices and current approaches.
9)	knows and applies the basic principles of preventive health measures and the protection of individuals from diseases and improving health, and recognizes the individual and/or society at risk, undertakes the responsibility of the physician in public health problems such as epidemics and pandemics.
10)	knows the biopsychosocial approach, evaluates the causes of diseases by considering the individual and his / her environment.
11)	is capable of having effective oral and/or written communication with patients and their relatives, society and colleagues.
12)	knows the techniques, methods and rules of researching. It contributes to the creation, sharing, implementation and development of new professional knowledge and practices by using science and scientific method within the framework of ethical rules.
13)	can collect health data, analyze them, present them in summary, and prepare forensic reports.
14)	knows the place of physicians as an educator, administrator and researcher in delivery of health care. It takes responsibility for the professional and personal development of own and colleagues in all interdisciplinary teams established to increase the health level of the society.
15)	knows employee health, environment and occupational safety issues and takes responsibility when necessary.
16)	knows health policies and is able to evaluate their effects in the field of application.
17)	keeps medical knowledge up-to-date within the framework of lifelong learning responsibility.
18)	Applies own profession by knowing about ethical obligations and legal responsibilities, prioritizing human values and with self-sacrifice throughout own medical life.

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Homework Assignments	1	% 20
Project	1	% 30
Final	1	% 50
total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 50
total		% 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	16	52
Presentations / Seminar	16	32
Homework Assignments	16	32
Total Workload		116