COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DIGITAL POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FMS 4331 DIGITAL POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES ELECTIVE 1 1 0 5

Offered By

Film Design and Screenwriting

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OZAN OTAN

Offered to

Film Design and Screenwriting
Film Design and Screenwriting

Course Objective

It is aimed that students do research and raise awareness about digital culture, popular culture and mass culture. Within the scope of the course, various messages, visual materials and digital content are discussed from a critical point of view.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1- It is expected to have a critical perspective on digital culture and its contents.
2   2- It is expected that the phenomena produced in today's media (advertisements, posters, billboards, films, etc.) have sufficient knowledge about the production-consumption relations, social, cultural, economic and political effects.
3   3- It is expected that they will be able to evaluate popular concepts such as the digital world and the metaverse universe.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1- Getting to know, explaining the process of the lesson.
2 2- Discussion on the definitions of oral, written and visual culture.
3 3- Visual culture and visual culture products and digital technology relations.
4 4- Popular culture, mass culture concepts, historical, social, economic and political foundations.
5 5- Analysis of digital popular culture products through the concepts of image, message, content and representation
6 6- Advertising, media-capital relations
7 7- Digital Culture and popular culture relationship
8 8- Digital technologies and cinema
9 9- New media and digital culture
10 10- Project presentations
11 11- Project presentations
12 12- Project presentations
13 13- Project presentations
14 14- General evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

M. Castells, Ağ Toplumunun Yükselişi, Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları , 2005
Douglas Kellner, Medya Gösterisi, Açılım Kitap, 2010
Mehmet Özdemir, Dijital Kültür, Arı Sanat Yayınevi, 2019
Ünsal Oskay, Kitle Iletişiminin Kültürel Işlevleri, Inkılap Kitabevi, 2014
Herbert J. Gans, Popüler Kültür ve Yüksek Kültür, YKY, 2005
John Fiske, Popüler Kültürü Anlamak, Parşömen, 2012

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, question and answer, discussion, homework presentation. A lesson in which students are active is aimed.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRJ PROJECT
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRJ * 0.70 + ASG * 0.30


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ozan.otan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

During office hours.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 4 14 56
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Project Assignment 1 10 10
Project Final Presentation 1 10 10
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 132

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO
LO.1
LO.2
LO.3

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