AMERICAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
PRL4535 | Digital Public Relations | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Prof. Dr. İDİL KARADEMİRLİDAĞ SUHER |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SELCAN YEŞİLYURT Prof. Dr. İDİL KARADEMİRLİDAĞ SUHER Instructor AYSUN ŞABANLI |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | The goal of this course is to make the students to understand the new media, social media and the importance for PR. *To make the students be aware of new media and social media. *To make the students get informed about blogs, wiki’s, podcast, videologs etc. *To make the student to understand the important relationship between the social media tools the students use everyday (such as facebook, twitter, myspace etc.) and PR |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1) Students will be able to define the new world in which we live. They will be able to discuss the relations between new media, social media and web 2.0 2) Students will be able to analyze the web sites of the corporations and brands which they buy, use or get serviced by. 3) Students will be able to identify and analyze the new rules of communication. 4) Students will have the knowledge about the bloghosphere. They will be able to define different bloggers and then they will be able to create their own blogs. 5) Students will be able to identify the importance of blogs in terms of public relations practices. 6) Students will be able to comprehend the important relationship between the social media tools the students use everyday (such as facebook, twitter, myspace etc.) and Public Relations Practices. 7) Students will be able to define new tools of PR 2.0. They can recognise the importance of using these tools in public relations practices.(such as press relases, rss, seo etc.) 8) Students will be able to comprehend the importance and power of PR 2.0 and digital communication in terms of digital crisis communication. 9) Students will be able to identify the diffusion of innovation. 10) Students will be able to apply the digital communication tactics to their PR Campaign Projects they will make. |
Innovation continues to occur on the internet at an extremely lively pace. This course is designed to help students understand variety of “web 2.0″ technologies including blogs, RSS, wikis, social bookmarking tools, audio and video podcasts. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction: Presentation of the course | |
2) | Introduction to new media. What is new media, what is social media? The differences between new media and social media. | |
3) | Corporate web sites and their useage by corporation | |
4) | Presentation of first assigment: Analyzing the corporate web sites | Searching and analyzing the corporate web sites, preparing a presentation. |
5) | Marketing and public relations in online world. The new rules of online PR. | Reading some chapters of this book:The New Rules of Marketing and PR / David Meerman Scott |
6) | Blogs: Understand the blogs, its meaning for PR, the power of blogs. The rules of effective blogs, ethical side of being a blogger, corporate crisis through blogs Guest participant-Blogger | |
7) | Viral marketing and diffusions of innovation | Searching the most popular and effective viral advertising |
8) | Social media. Facebook, twitter, myspce, google+ etc. Guest participant- social media professional | |
9) | New tools for communication and PR practices (RSS, podcast, SEO, etc.) | |
10) | Online Media Relations. The new principles of writing press releases, online press releases | |
11) | Digital Campaigns and cases of Public Relations and Advertising / Guest participant | |
12) | Online crisis and stories. The threat of word of mouse Second assigment: analyzin and making presentation of online corporate and/or brand crisis | |
13) | Student presentation of online corporate and/or brand crisis | Searching and analyzing the online crisis |
14) | Review of the semester |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | |
References: | PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences, Deirdre Breakenridge Online Public Relations, David Phillips, Philip Young Sanal Ortamda Halkla İlişkiler, İdil Sayımer, Beta Yayınları |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Homework Assignments | 2 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
Final | 1 | % 50 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 15 | 45 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 70 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | 4 |
Midterms | 1 | 3 |
Final | 1 | 4 |
Total Workload | 126 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Upon graduation, students will acquire key skills and attributes to conduct research to use research tools, to solve problems, to communicate effectively and to transfer skills to the workplace. | |
2) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to discuss key issues in fluent English. | |
3) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to compose written documents in English with a mature prose style. | 4 |
4) | Upon graduation, students will have gained broad knowledge of the American and English literary canons. | 4 |
5) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to analyze, synthesize and criticize sophisticated works of American and English literature. | 4 |
6) | Upon graduation, students will have achieved in depth the understanding of contemporary American culture. | 3 |
7) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to draw links among diverse literary texts and documents and establish critical connections and adopt an interdisciplinary attitude. | 3 |
8) | Upon graduation, students will be able to develop new projects individually or in teams. | 3 |
9) | Upon graduation, students will be able to apply their knowledge into their lives for interdisciplinary problem-solving and solutions. | 4 |