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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: | 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: | 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) By providing both theoretical and practical education, it prepares students for academic and business life. | ||||||||||||||
| 2) It provides a critical perspective on mass media. | ||||||||||||||
| 3) With the English curriculum, it allows students to follow the international market and academic studies from original sources. | ||||||||||||||
| 4) Students will be an expert in front of the camera, behind-the-scenes, news center, light, sound, editing, directing, cinematography, screenwriting. | ||||||||||||||
| 5) Thanks to the media professionals, the students will be ready for the sector. | ||||||||||||||
| 6) Acquires production skills such as short and medium films, screenplays, documentaries and TV programs. | ||||||||||||||
| 7) Have the basic knowledge and experience of image technologies. | ||||||||||||||
| 8) Thanks to sectoral cooperation, professional business life will be started. | ||||||||||||||
| 9) Through an applied curriculum, students gain an interdisciplinary perspective on different media studies. | ||||||||||||||
| 10) With the technical training to be taken in studio environment, students gain experience in the sector. | ||||||||||||||
| 11) They will have skills such as negotiating with the group, taking initiative. | ||||||||||||||
| 12) Acquire basic values related to media and business ethics. | ||||||||||||||
| 13) Follow the developments in the field and communicate with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio B1. | ||||||||||||||
| 14) Students use 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) | By providing both theoretical and practical education, it prepares students for academic and business life. | |
| 2) | It provides a critical perspective on mass media. | |
| 3) | With the English curriculum, it allows students to follow the international market and academic studies from original sources. | |
| 4) | Students will be an expert in front of the camera, behind-the-scenes, news center, light, sound, editing, directing, cinematography, screenwriting. | |
| 5) | Thanks to the media professionals, the students will be ready for the sector. | |
| 6) | Acquires production skills such as short and medium films, screenplays, documentaries and TV programs. | |
| 7) | Have the basic knowledge and experience of image technologies. | |
| 8) | Thanks to sectoral cooperation, professional business life will be started. | |
| 9) | Through an applied curriculum, students gain an interdisciplinary perspective on different media studies. | |
| 10) | With the technical training to be taken in studio environment, students gain experience in the sector. | |
| 11) | They will have skills such as negotiating with the group, taking initiative. | |
| 12) | Acquire basic values related to media and business ethics. | |
| 13) | Follow the developments in the field and communicate with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio B1. | |
| 14) | Students use information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Driving 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 | ||||||