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| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
| Course Code: | UNI143 | ||||
| Course Name: | Digital Communication and Culture | ||||
| Semester: | Fall | ||||
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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: | Dr. Öğr. Üy. 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. |
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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) Has a broad and interdisciplinary perspective on international business and trade by the use of social sciences and mathematics, | |||||||||||||
| 2) Possess the knowledge and skills related to different functions and interactions of international business and trade. | |||||||||||||
| 3) Possess the knowledge and skills to interpret the data, concepts and ideas in the field of international business and trade with scientific and technological methods. | |||||||||||||
| 4) Use different theoretical approaches to understanding and solving various business and trade problems. | |||||||||||||
| 5) Explains the competitiveness of the countries with the requirements of international competition and interprets the functioning of the actors and regulatory structures in the international environment. | |||||||||||||
| 6) Understands the value of developing new trade projects and generating strategies within international market needs. | |||||||||||||
| 7) Solves complex business and global trade problems by using various statistical techniques and numerical methods and makes analyzes by using statistical programs effectively. | |||||||||||||
| 8) Uses a foreign language at the B1 General Level in terms of European Language Portfolio criteria according to the level of education. | |||||||||||||
| 9) Develops teamwork, negotiation, leadership and entrepreneurship skills. | |||||||||||||
| 10) Possess the knowledge of universal ethical values, social responsibility and sufficient legal and regulatory knowledge. | |||||||||||||
| 11) Develops positive attitudes related to lifelong learning and identifies individual learning needs and carries out studies to correct them. | |||||||||||||
| 12) Students will be able to communicate their ideas and solutions both written and orally, and present and publish them on both national and international platforms. | |||||||||||||
| 13) Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Using License required by the field. | |||||||||||||
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Has a broad and interdisciplinary perspective on international business and trade by the use of social sciences and mathematics, | |
| 2) | Possess the knowledge and skills related to different functions and interactions of international business and trade. | |
| 3) | Possess the knowledge and skills to interpret the data, concepts and ideas in the field of international business and trade with scientific and technological methods. | |
| 4) | Use different theoretical approaches to understanding and solving various business and trade problems. | |
| 5) | Explains the competitiveness of the countries with the requirements of international competition and interprets the functioning of the actors and regulatory structures in the international environment. | |
| 6) | Understands the value of developing new trade projects and generating strategies within international market needs. | |
| 7) | Solves complex business and global trade problems by using various statistical techniques and numerical methods and makes analyzes by using statistical programs effectively. | |
| 8) | Uses a foreign language at the B1 General Level in terms of European Language Portfolio criteria according to the level of education. | |
| 9) | Develops teamwork, negotiation, leadership and entrepreneurship skills. | |
| 10) | Possess the knowledge of universal ethical values, social responsibility and sufficient legal and regulatory knowledge. | |
| 11) | Develops positive attitudes related to lifelong learning and identifies individual learning needs and carries out studies to correct them. | |
| 12) | Students will be able to communicate their ideas and solutions both written and orally, and present and publish them on both national and international platforms. | |
| 13) | Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Using License required by the field. |
| 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 | ||||||