COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DIGITAL MEDIA LITERACY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SHS 2049 DIGITAL MEDIA LITERACY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Vocational School of Healthcare

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR MINE INANÇ

Offered to

Oral and Dental Clinical
Medical Laboratory Techniques
Anesthesia
Medical Documentation and Secretariat
Medical Imaging Techniques
Audiometry
Nuclear Medicine Techniques
First And Emergency Aid
Radioterapy

Course Objective

The primary objective is to enable students to use traditional and digital media tools with a conscious, critical, and ethical perspective.In this course, a broad spectrum of media content will be examined from the functioning of traditional media tools to the dynamics of social media platforms in order to explore how media is produced, distributed, and consumed. Through this process, the course aims to enhance students awareness of how to analyze written and visual media content and to encourage them to become responsible consumers and producers of media. In this context, particular attention will be given to how digital platform algorithms influence individual decision-making processes, analyzing these mechanisms in terms of media messaging and persuasive techniques.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understands the necessity, nature, principles, and fundamental approaches of traditional and digital media literacy.
2   Develops critical thinking skills regarding media content.
3   Gains knowledge about digital citizenship, cyberbullying, digital addiction, cybersecurity, and e-health issues.
4   Develops awareness of sexist, racist, and discriminatory discourses and structures present in media texts.
5   Comprehends the positive and negative impacts of media on economic, political, social life, and culture.
6   Explains the relationship and interaction between media content and cultural transformations in terms of their economic, social, political, and societal dimensions.
7   Enables the interpretation and critical evaluation of digital content and discourse

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Media Literacy and Critical Media Literacy Cyberbullying/Harassment and Hate Speech in Digital Media
2 Digital Media Literacy: Concepts and Historical Development Digital Democracy and Digital Citizenship
3 Digital Culture Analysis of Media Texts
4 Representations in Media (e.g., gender, class, aging, health) Visual Analysis in Media
5 Health Communication and Digital Media Literacy Digital Media Literacy: Case Studies, Challenges, and Solutions
6 Accessing Health-Related Content from Digital Sources
7 Health Journalism and the Transformation of News in Digital Media; Fact-Checking in Health News
8 Digital Activism
9 Discourse Production, Manipulation, and Propaganda in Digital Media
10 Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation

Recomended or Required Reading

-Binark, Mutlu ve Bek Mine G. (2007). Eleştirel Medya Okuryazarlığı Kuramsal Yaklaşımlar ve Uygulamalar, Istanbul: Kalkedon Yayınları.
-Ed. Şentürk Kara, E. Ve Çetin, N.S (2022). Dijital Medya Okuryazarlığı, Ankara Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık.
-Inal, Kemal (2009). Medya Okuryazarlığı El Kitabı. Ankara Ütopya Yayınevi.
-Digital literacy: A primer on media, identity and the evolution of technology, Susan Wiesinger, Ralph Beliveau.
-Gönenç, Özgür. Medyada Algı Yönetimi, (2018). Istanbul: DER Yayınları.
-Tok, Ipek & Ulusoy, Hande. Haber Okuryazarlığı Temel Kavramlar ve Güncel Tartışmalar, (2023). Konya: Literatürk Akademik.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture with visual and written material

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 AR ArasınavTeo
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE AR * 0.60 + ODV * 0.40
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE VOR * 0.50 + FN * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VOR * 0.50 + BUT * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Fundamentals of Application is made within the framework of the SHMYO and examinations and evaluated.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Lecturer Dr. Mine INANÇ
e-mail: mine.inanc@deu.edu.tr
Tel: 0 (232) 412 9865

Office Hours

Within working hours, by appointment can be discussed

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Case study 14 2 28
Preparation for quiz etc. 7 2 14
Final Assignment 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 71

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51
LO.61
LO.71

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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