COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIAL MEDIA AND LITERACY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MSH 0145 SOCIAL MEDIA AND LITERACY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Efes Vocational School

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

GIZEM HATIPOĞLU

Offered to

Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Tourism and Hotel Management
Civil Aviation Transportation Management
Food Technology

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic critical literacy skills, to raise awareness of media texts and to show the connection of media with culture, social events and political economy.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. At the end of the course, the student will be able to follow the media with a more critical perspective
2   2. To have information about mass media
3   3. Learn the cultural and economic political background of media
4   4. Will be able to question their own media usage

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1. What is Social Media Literacy 11. Hate Speech in the Media and Freedom of Expression
2 2. Introduction to Communication and Media Studies: Definitions and Concepts 12. Movie Screening
3 3. Media and Public Space 13. Movie Screening
4 4. News and Ideology 14. General Evaluation
5 5. Television Culture in Turkey 15. Final Exam
6 6. Media and Social Murder
7 7. Mid-term Exam
8 8. Political Communication, Propaganda and Media
9 9. Political Communication, Propaganda and Media
10 10. New Media, Digitalization and Media

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Adaklı, Gülseren. (2006). Türkiye de Medya Endüstrisi. Neoliberalizm Çağında Mülkiyet ve Kontrol Ilişkileri. Ankara: Ütopya Yayınevi.
2. Akın, Altuğ ve Çomu, Tuğrul. (Der.) (2010). Yeni Medyada Nefret Söylemi. Istanbul: Kalkedon Yayınları.
3. Binark, Mutlu ve Gencel, Bek, Mine. (2010). Eleştirel Medya Okuryazarlığı Kuramsal Yaklaşımlar ve Uygulamalar. Istanbul: Kalkedon Yayınları.
4. Çaplı, Bülent ve Tuncel, Hakan. (Ed.) (2010). Televizyon Haberciliğinde Etik. Ankara Üniversitesi.
5. Çaplı, Bülent. (2002). Medya ve Etik. Ankara: Imge Kitabevi.
6. Çelenk, Sevilay. (2005). Televizyon, Temsil, Kültür. Ankara: Ütopya Yayınları.
7. Çınar, Mahmut. (Ed.) (2013). Medya ve Nefret Söylemi. Kavramlar, Mecralar, Tartışmalar. Istanbul: Hrant Dink Vakfı.
8. Ergül, Hakan. (2005). Televizyonda Haberin Magazinelleşmesi. Istanbul: Iletişim Yayınları.
9. Fiske, John. (1996). Iletişim Çalışmalarına Giriş. (Çev: Süleyman Irvan). Ankara: Ark.
10. Laughey, Dan (2010). Medya Çalışmaları Teoriler ve Yaklaşımlar. (Çev: Ali Toprak). Istanbul: Kalkedon Yayınları.
11. Mutlu, Erol. (2008) Iletişim Sözlüğü, Ankara: Ayraç.
12. Mutlu, Erol. (Der.) (2005). Kitle Iletişim Kuramları. Ankara: Ütopya Yayınları.
13. Stevenson, Nick. (2008). Medya Kültürleri: Sosyal Teori ve Kitle Iletişimi. (Çev: Göze Orhon, Barış Engin Aksoy). Ankara: Ütopya Yayınevi.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Discussion and Individual Research

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

It is impretive to attend %70 of the courses and fulfill the requirements of the course.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gizem.hatipoglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

will be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Case study 10 1 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 6 1 6
Preparation for final exam 7 1 7
In-class practices 2 1 2
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 111

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18PO.19PO.20
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45

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