Management Information Systems (English) | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code: | UNI143 | ||||
Course Name: | Digital Communication and Culture | ||||
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Fall Spring |
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Course Credits: |
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Language of instruction: | English | ||||
Course Condition: | |||||
Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||
Type of course: | University Elective | ||||
Course Level: |
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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) It has a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to management information systems, primarily business and computer engineering. | |||||||||||||
2) Comprehends the management information systems in terms of technical, organizational and managerial aspects and uses the current programming language by knowing the logic of programming. | |||||||||||||
3) Uses different information technologies and systems for understanding and solving various business problems. | |||||||||||||
4) Interpret the data, concepts and ideas in the field of management information systems with scientific and technological methods. | |||||||||||||
5) Analyze the needs for an information system and analyze the processes of analysis, design and implementation of the database. | |||||||||||||
6) Gains technical and managerial contributions to IT projects and takes responsibility. | |||||||||||||
7) Solve complex business and informatics problems by using various statistical techniques and numerical methods and make analyzes 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) Has universal ethical values, social responsibility awareness and sufficient legal 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) It uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field. |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | It has a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to management information systems, primarily business and computer engineering. | 3 |
2) | Comprehends the management information systems in terms of technical, organizational and managerial aspects and uses the current programming language by knowing the logic of programming. | 3 |
3) | Uses different information technologies and systems for understanding and solving various business problems. | 2 |
4) | Interpret the data, concepts and ideas in the field of management information systems with scientific and technological methods. | 3 |
5) | Analyze the needs for an information system and analyze the processes of analysis, design and implementation of the database. | 3 |
6) | Gains technical and managerial contributions to IT projects and takes responsibility. | 2 |
7) | Solve complex business and informatics problems by using various statistical techniques and numerical methods and make analyzes using statistical programs effectively. | 3 |
8) | Uses a foreign language at the B1 General Level in terms of European Language Portfolio criteria according to the level of education. | 3 |
9) | Develops teamwork, negotiation, leadership and entrepreneurship skills. | 3 |
10) | Has universal ethical values, social responsibility awareness and sufficient legal knowledge. | 3 |
11) | Develops positive attitudes related to lifelong learning and identifies individual learning needs and carries out studies to correct them. | 2 |
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. | 3 |
13) | It uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field. | 3 |
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 |