NEW MEDIA
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
NMD3913	Visual Journalism	Fall	3	0	3	5

This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi TİRŞE ERBAYSAL FİLİBELİ
Course Lecturer(s):	Instructor HALUK ÇOBANOĞLU
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None.
Course Objectives:	Public trust to TV and print media news is getting less everyday. There are many reasons affecting the public trust. Social media had turn to a fake news spreader filled with rumors conspiracy theories. Journalists working for electronic and online media should prepare their stories with more solid proofs and evidences. While working in the field as a tv or online journalists need to produce more pictures together with the sound. They need to edit them in simple cinematographic way to establish a contact between the story and the viewers. That should be done without any compromise of journalism ethics.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Learn how to use photography, videography, and audio to tell compelling stories.
2) can analyze and reflect upon both traditional visual journalism as well as recently developed methods and genres.
3) can analyze theory and methodology of visual journalism and also develop new ways to reflect upon modernized genres.
4) will able to reflect upon and analyze both organizational and practical aspects of visual journalism.
5) will develop and report multimedia stories in national as well as international aspects.
6) will capable of analyzing the story with visual aspects and editing it in ethical rules.

Course Content

The focus of the course is on visual journalism in digital age. Key issues include how visual journalism is practicing on the field, and how visual journalism is challenged by and profiting from developments of digital technology.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction
2)	The basic technics of photography
3)	Photojournalism
4)	Video Journalism
5)	Video camera
6)	The Frame (Composition)
7)	The Light (Dramatic, Natural)
8)	Sound / Deadline for the 1st project
9)	Editing
10)	Digital publishing ethics
11)	Analysis on well known worldwide broadcasters of visual journalism / Deadline for the 2nd project
12)	Visual sense (pictures turning to a story)
13)	Making the multimedia report. Discussions on the multimedia reports prepared by the students
14)	Summary of the course topics, directions and notices for the final exam

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

1) Visual journalism: Infographics from the world's best newsrooms and designers / edited by Robert Klanten and Anja Kouznetsova ; contributing editor, Javier Errea ; preface, profiles, and caption texts by Javier Errea ; translation from Spanish into English by Steven Tolliver
2) Visual journalism / David Machin ; Lydia Polzer
3) Data Journalism handbook / Jonathan Gray, https://datajournalism.com/read/handbook/one.
4) Televizyon program yapımcılığı : “bir televizyon yapımcısının bilmesi gereken her şey” / Colin Hart ; çev. Vedat Tayyar Erdamar

References:

1) BBC News Night
2) DW European Journal
3) ARTE Reportage
4) AL JAZEERA ENGLISH People and Power

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Project	2	% 60
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 0
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 100
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	4	56
Project	2	16	32
Final	1	2	2
Total Workload			132

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	To be able to critically interpret and discuss the theories, the concepts, the traditions, and the developments in the history of thought which are fundamental for the field of new media, journalism and communication.	1
2)	To be able to attain written, oral and visual knowledge about technical equipment and software used in the process of news and the content production in new media, and to be able to acquire effective abilities to use them on a professional level.	5
3)	To be able to get information about the institutional agents and generally about the sector operating in the field of new media, journalism and communication, and to be able to critically evaluate them.	2
4)	To be able to comprehend the reactions of the readers, the listeners, the audiences and the users to the changing roles of media environments, and to be able to provide and circulate an original contents for them and to predict future trends.	3
5)	To be able to apprehend the basic theories, the concepts and the thoughts related to neighbouring fields of new media and journalism in a critical manner.	2
6)	To be able to grasp global and technological changes in the field of communication, and the relations due to with their effects on the local agents.	4
7)	To be able to develop skills on gathering necessary data by using scientific methods, analyzing and circulating them in order to produce content.	3
8)	To be able to develop acquired knowledge, skills and competence upon social aims by being legally and ethically responsible for a lifetime, and to be able to use them in order to provide social benefit.	5
9)	To be able to operate collaborative projects with national/international colleagues in the field of new media, journalism and communication.	3
10)	To be able to improve skills on creating works in various formats and which are qualified to be published on the prestigious national and international channels.	5