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| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
| Course Code: | UNI362 | ||||
| Course Name: | Memory and Culture in New Media Ecology | ||||
| Semester: | Spring | ||||
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| Language of instruction: | English | ||||
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| Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | Yes | ||||
| Type of course: | University Elective | ||||
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| Mode of Delivery: | E-Learning | ||||
| Course Coordinator: | Doç. Dr. FERİDE ZEYNEP GÜDER | ||||
| Course Lecturer(s): | Feride Zeynep Güder | ||||
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| 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. |
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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. |
| 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 |
| 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: | 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 |
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| 1) Adequate knowledge of mathematics, science and biomedical engineering disciplines; Ability to use theoretical and applied knowledge in these fields in solving complex engineering problems. | |||||||||||
| 2) Ability to identify, formulate and solve complex biomedical engineering problems; ability to select and apply appropriate analysis and modeling methods for this purpose. | |||||||||||
| 3) Ability to design a complex system, process, device or product to meet specific requirements under realistic constraints and conditions; ability to apply modern design methods for this purpose. | |||||||||||
| 4) Ability to select and use modern techniques and tools necessary for the analysis and solution of complex problems encountered in biomedical engineering practices; Ability to use information technologies effectively. | |||||||||||
| 5) Ability to design, conduct experiments, collect data, analyze and interpret results for the investigation of complex biomedical engineering problems or discipline-specific research topics. | |||||||||||
| 6) Ability to work effectively in disciplinary and multi-disciplinary teams; individual working skills. | |||||||||||
| 7) Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing; knowledge of at least one foreign language, ability to write effective reports and understand written reports, to prepare design and production reports, to make effective presentations, to give and receive clear and understandable instructions. | |||||||||||
| 8) Awareness of the necessity of lifelong learning; the ability to access information, follow developments in science and technology, and constantly renew oneself. | |||||||||||
| 9) Knowledge of ethical principles, professional and ethical responsibility, and standards used in engineering practices. | |||||||||||
| 10) Knowledge of business practices such as project management, risk management and change management; awareness of entrepreneurship, innovation; information about sustainable development. | |||||||||||
| 11) Information about the effects of biomedical engineering practices on health, environment and safety in universal and social dimensions and the problems of the age reflected in the field of engineering; Awareness of the legal consequences of biomedical engineering solutions. | |||||||||||
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Adequate knowledge of mathematics, science and biomedical engineering disciplines; Ability to use theoretical and applied knowledge in these fields in solving complex engineering problems. | |
| 2) | Ability to identify, formulate and solve complex biomedical engineering problems; ability to select and apply appropriate analysis and modeling methods for this purpose. | |
| 3) | Ability to design a complex system, process, device or product to meet specific requirements under realistic constraints and conditions; ability to apply modern design methods for this purpose. | |
| 4) | Ability to select and use modern techniques and tools necessary for the analysis and solution of complex problems encountered in biomedical engineering practices; Ability to use information technologies effectively. | |
| 5) | Ability to design, conduct experiments, collect data, analyze and interpret results for the investigation of complex biomedical engineering problems or discipline-specific research topics. | |
| 6) | Ability to work effectively in disciplinary and multi-disciplinary teams; individual working skills. | |
| 7) | Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing; knowledge of at least one foreign language, ability to write effective reports and understand written reports, to prepare design and production reports, to make effective presentations, to give and receive clear and understandable instructions. | |
| 8) | Awareness of the necessity of lifelong learning; the ability to access information, follow developments in science and technology, and constantly renew oneself. | |
| 9) | Knowledge of ethical principles, professional and ethical responsibility, and standards used in engineering practices. | |
| 10) | Knowledge of business practices such as project management, risk management and change management; awareness of entrepreneurship, innovation; information about sustainable development. | |
| 11) | Information about the effects of biomedical engineering practices on health, environment and safety in universal and social dimensions and the problems of the age reflected in the field of engineering; Awareness of the legal consequences of biomedical engineering solutions. |
| 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 | |
| Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
| Course Hours | 16 | 52 |
| Presentations / Seminar | 16 | 32 |
| Homework Assignments | 16 | 32 |
| Total Workload | 116 | |