COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DIGITIZATION INEQUALITY AND DISCRIMINATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KDN 6014 DIGITIZATION INEQUALITY AND DISCRIMINATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Women's and Family Studies

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR TIJEN ERDUT

Offered to

Women's and Family Studies

Course Objective

This course aims to examine the new types of inequality and discrimination caused by digitalization and the interaction of existing types of inequality and discrimination with digitalization.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To identify the concept of digital economy.
2   To recognise theoretical basis and operation principles of digital economy.
3   To recognise online platforms, innovative features of industry 4.0 model and their impact on employment.
4   To analyse digital inequality and discrimination in the production and consumption of goods and services.
5   To evaluate the social polarization effect of digitalization.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Concept of Digital Economy
2 Theoretical Basis and Operation Principles of Digital Economy
3 Digital Economy and Online Platforms
4 Innovative Features of Industry 4.0 Model
5 Digitalization and Employment Effects
6 Digital Inequality and Discrimination in the Production of Goods and Services
7 Digital Inequality and Discrimination: Occupational Distribution
8 MIDTERM EXAM
9 Digital Inequality and Discrimination: Geographical Distribution
10 Digital Inequality and Discrimination: Distribution of Forms of Employment
11 Digitalization and Social Polarization
12 Digital Inequality and Discrimination in the Consumption of Goods and Services
13 Digital Inequality and Discrimination: Harassment and Sexual Harassment, Violence, Vandalism
14 Other Dimensions of Digital Inequality and Discrimination
15 Digital Inequality and Anti-Discrimination Policies

Recomended or Required Reading

De Stefano, Valerio; The rise of the "just-in-time workforce": on-demand work, crowdwork and labour protection in the "gig-economy", Conditions of work and employment series No. 71, International Labour Office, Geneva, 2016.
Erdut Tijen; "Yeni Teknolojilerin Iş Ilişkilerinin Yapısı Üzerindeki Etkisi", Çimento Işveren Dergisi. C. 11, Sa: 5, Eylül 1997, s. 13-28.
Erdut, Tijen; Yeni Teknolojilerin Iş Ilişkileri Üzerindeki Etkisi. Türk Ağır Sanayii ve Hizmet Sektörü Kamu Işverenleri Sendikası (TÜHIS), Yayın No. 28, Izmir, 1998.
Erdut, Tijen; "Dijitalleşme ve Işgücü Piyasası", Karatahta Iş Yazıları Dergisi, Sayı: 19, 2021, s. 25-59.
Gillis, Talia B., and Jann L. Spiess; "Big Data and Discrimination," The University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 86, No. 2, 2019, s. 459 488.
Carlsson, Christer; "Decision analytics-Key to digitalisation," Information Sciences, 2018, s. 424 438.
Cherry C.E., Pidgeon N.F.; Is sharing the solution Exploring public acceptability of the sharing economy, Journal of Cleaner Production, No. 195, 2018, s. 939-948.
Degryse, Christophe; Digitalisation of the economy and its impact on labour markets. Working Paper 2016.02, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels, 2016.
Erdut, Tijen; "Istihdam ve Istihdam Edilebilirlik", Mercek Dergisi. Metal Sanayicileri Sendikası, Temmuz 2002, s. 80-91.
Erdut, Tijen; "Çalışma Yaşamında Esneklik ve Kuralsızlaştırma", TÜHIS Dergisi. Cilt. 18, Sa. 4, Kasım 2003, s. 8 35.
Eurofound; Work on demand: Recurrence, effects and challenges. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2018.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, weekly readings, class discussions, review essays and presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Review essays
Class participation
Examinations

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Students are obligated to participate 70% of the lectures.
2. All kinds of plagiarism and attempt of plagiarism shall be concluded by disciplinary punishment.
3. Students supposed to read the materials before lecture and participate the classroom discussions.
4. Students are expected to make presentations about the subjects given by the lecturer and on the date determined.
5. The research papers that are not delivered on the day of the final exam will not be accepted.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

tijen.erdut@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday, 15.30-17.00
Tuesday, 15.30-17.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 139

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.15
LO.23
LO.335445
LO.424545
LO.553454

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