Architecture (English) | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code: | UNI143 | ||||
Course Name: | Digital Communication and Culture | ||||
Semester: | Spring | ||||
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Language of instruction: | English | ||||
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Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||
Type of course: | University Elective | ||||
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Mode of Delivery: | Face to face | ||||
Course Coordinator: | Doç. Dr. SADİ KERİM DÜNDAR | ||||
Course Lecturer(s): | Dr.Chein Yang Erdem | ||||
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Course Objectives: | This course aims to: • Define and analyze digital culture through relevant theoretical perspectives in cultural studies; • Critically examine the relationship between new media technologies and culture practices; • Engage in scholarly debates on emergent cultural forms generated by digital and networked communication; • Examine our roles as consumers and producers of culture in a highly datafied, digitized, and networked society. |
Course Content: | This course explores contemporary cultural phenomena that are shaped by digital communication technologies. Drawing on digital humanities, memory studies, audience studies, game studies, material culture, and posthuman studies, this course analyzes the formation of public memory, community, subculture, identity, subjectivity, and agency. Topics include digital archive, remix, selfies, influencers, memes, online trolling, hacker culture, and posthuman culture. |
The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: • Define the characteristics of contemporary digital culture; 2) Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: • Apply theoretical perspectives of cultural studies to analyze digital cultural phenomena. 3) Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: • Demonstrate understanding of the role of digital media in shaping public memory, community, subculture, identity, subjectivity, and agency. 4) Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: • Formulate their own critical thoughts on current issues of digital culture; 5) Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: • Critically reflect on their everyday interaction with digital media and their role as media professionals. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Course introduction | lecture notes |
2) | What is digital culture | lecture notes |
3) | The internet, networked communication, and computerizing culture | lecture notes |
4) | Cultural data & cultural analytics | lecture notes |
5) | Digital archive | lecture notes |
6) | Remix | lecture notes |
7) | Selfie | lecture notes |
8) | Midterm | lecture notes |
9) | Gaming | lecture notes |
10) | Internet celebrity | lecture notes |
11) | Memes | lecture notes |
12) | Trolling | lecture notes |
13) | Hacker | lecture notes |
14) | Culture in a post-human and post-digital age | lecture notes |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Ders notları |
References: | Lecture notes |
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1) She/he gains knowledge of and develops values on technical, aesthetic, cultural, historical, social and ethical dimensions of architecture with a scientific and critical approach. | |||||||||||||||
2) She/he integrates architectural practice with environmental, economic and social sustainability principles. | |||||||||||||||
3) She/he has the knowledge and ability to provide and implement interactions between urban planning, urban design and architectural projects. | |||||||||||||||
4) Gains the ability to identify architectural potentials and problems based on data collection, analysis, interpretation and critical thinking, in order to cultivate concepts and determine strategies for action. | |||||||||||||||
5) She/he is able to interrelate theory, design and construction practices. | |||||||||||||||
6) She/he will be able to produce architectural design, presentation, implementation, management and supervision stages both independently and collectively for different contexts and scales and through a responsive approach to social, functional, technical and aesthetic requirements. | |||||||||||||||
7) In addition to traditional methods, she/he interactively uses the emerging information technologies required by the field. | |||||||||||||||
8) To analyze and document the historical and conservation characteristics of the built environment; taking into account of the balance between protection and use, she/he has the ability and necessary knowledge in renovation and restoration issues. | |||||||||||||||
9) She / he gains the ability to cooperate with different disciplines on the conception and design of the built environment, as an individual and/or as a team member. | |||||||||||||||
10) Has knowledge on and comprehension of professional ethics and codes of conduct, legal and managerial regulations, standards, rights and responsibilities and processes in the field of architecture. | |||||||||||||||
11) Can produce design, know-how and knowledge for the improvement of different and changing social needs, and for the enhancement of life quality. | |||||||||||||||
12) She/he has the knowledge and responsibility to design solidly built structures and takes into account of the risks of natural disaster. | |||||||||||||||
13) She/he monitors new developments in architectural theory and practice and is open to lifelong learning. | |||||||||||||||
14) She/he takes responsibility for the improvement of social consciousness in the field of architecture, and for the endorsement and defense of ecological and urban rights. | |||||||||||||||
15) Has architectural communication skills in a foreign language. |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | She/he gains knowledge of and develops values on technical, aesthetic, cultural, historical, social and ethical dimensions of architecture with a scientific and critical approach. | |
2) | She/he integrates architectural practice with environmental, economic and social sustainability principles. | |
3) | She/he has the knowledge and ability to provide and implement interactions between urban planning, urban design and architectural projects. | |
4) | Gains the ability to identify architectural potentials and problems based on data collection, analysis, interpretation and critical thinking, in order to cultivate concepts and determine strategies for action. | |
5) | She/he is able to interrelate theory, design and construction practices. | |
6) | She/he will be able to produce architectural design, presentation, implementation, management and supervision stages both independently and collectively for different contexts and scales and through a responsive approach to social, functional, technical and aesthetic requirements. | |
7) | In addition to traditional methods, she/he interactively uses the emerging information technologies required by the field. | |
8) | To analyze and document the historical and conservation characteristics of the built environment; taking into account of the balance between protection and use, she/he has the ability and necessary knowledge in renovation and restoration issues. | |
9) | She / he gains the ability to cooperate with different disciplines on the conception and design of the built environment, as an individual and/or as a team member. | |
10) | Has knowledge on and comprehension of professional ethics and codes of conduct, legal and managerial regulations, standards, rights and responsibilities and processes in the field of architecture. | |
11) | Can produce design, know-how and knowledge for the improvement of different and changing social needs, and for the enhancement of life quality. | |
12) | She/he has the knowledge and responsibility to design solidly built structures and takes into account of the risks of natural disaster. | |
13) | She/he monitors new developments in architectural theory and practice and is open to lifelong learning. | |
14) | She/he takes responsibility for the improvement of social consciousness in the field of architecture, and for the endorsement and defense of ecological and urban rights. | |
15) | Has architectural communication skills in a foreign language. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Homework Assignments | 5 | % 50 |
Midterms | 1 | % 25 |
Final | 1 | % 25 |
total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 75 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 25 | |
total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Preparation for the Activity | Spent for the Activity Itself | Completing the Activity Requirements | Workload | ||
Course Hours | 14 | 1 | 3 | 56 | |||
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 | ||||
Presentations / Seminar | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | |||
Project | 1 | 8 | 8 | ||||
Homework Assignments | 6 | 6 | 36 | ||||
Total Workload | 134 |