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Course Name | |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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Fall/Spring |
Prerequisites | None | |||||
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Course Type | Elective | |||||
Course Level | - | |||||
Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | ||||||
Course Coordinator | - | |||||
Course Lecturer(s) | - | |||||
Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description |
| Core Courses | X |
Major Area Courses | ||
Supportive Courses | ||
Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
Transferable Skill Courses |
Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Introduction | |
2 | Defining new nedia | Lev Manovich, "How Media Became New," Language of New Media, pp. 2126. |
3 | Historical context of new media | Max More, "Grasping the Future: Comparing Scenarios to Other Techniques” |
4 | New media in everyday life | Martin Lister, “New Media in Everyday Life,” New Media: A Critical Introduction, pp. 219280. |
5 | Society and technology | Raymond Williams, “The Technology and the Society,” Television, pp. 126. |
6 | Convergence Culture | Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture |
7 | Digital cultures | Lankshear and Knobel, “Online memes, affinities, and cultural production in new media literacies,” in C. Lankshear and M. Knobel (Eds.), A New literacies sampler, pp. 199227. |
8 | Midterm exam | |
9 | Virtual reality and cyberculture | Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” |
10 | Media networks | Manuel Castells, “Toward a sociology of the network society” |
11 | Virtual communities | Georg Simmel, “The sociology of sociability” |
12 | Participatory media literacies | D. Gillmor, "Principles for a new media literacy" |
13 | Digital gaming | Roger Caillois, "The Definition of Play" and "The Classification of Games"Alexander Galloway, "Gamic Action, Four Moments" |
14 | Presentations and discussion | |
15 | Review of the semester | |
16 | Final exam |
Course Notes/Textbooks | Soft copy notes will be available on the lecturer’s website. Hard copies will be handled during the semester. |
Suggested Readings/Materials | Other sources are the digital media samples accessible through the Web. |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | ||
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 10 |
Presentation / Jury | ||
Project | 1 | 20 |
Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | 1 | 30 |
Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 60 | |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 40 | |
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 2 | |
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 10 | |
Presentation / Jury | |||
Project | 1 | 10 | |
Seminar / Workshop | |||
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | 1 | 10 | |
Final Exams | 1 | 10 | |
Total | 120 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To be able to critically discuss and interpret the theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of media and communication discipline. | X | ||||
2 | To have the fundamental knowledge and ability to use the technical equipment and software programs required by the mediaproduction process. | X | ||||
3 | To be able to use the acquired theoretical knowledge in practice. | |||||
4 | To be able to critically interpret theoretical debates concerning the relations between the forms, agents, and factors that play a role in the field of media and communication. | |||||
5 | To be able to critically discuss and draw on theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of other disciplines complementing the field of media and communication studies. | X | ||||
6 | To be informed about national, regional, and global issues and problems; to be able to generate problemsolving methods depending on the quality of evidence and research, and to acquire the ability to report those methods to the public. | X | ||||
7 | To be able to gather, scrutinize and use with scientific methods the necessary data to for the processes of production and distribution. | |||||
8 | To be able to use and develop the acquired knowledge and skills in a lifelong process towards personal and social goals. | X | ||||
9 | To be able to follow developments in new technologies of media and communication, as well as new methods of production, new media industries, and new theories; and to be able to communicate with international colleagues in a foreign language. (“European Language Portfolio Global Scale,” Level B1) | |||||
10 | To be able to use a second foreign language at the intermediate level. | |||||
11 | To be able to use computer software required by the discipline and to possess advancedlevel computing and IT skills. (“European Computer Driving Licence”, Advanced Level) |
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest