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Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
NMD3105 | Social Movements and New Media | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
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 : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SİNAN AŞÇI |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Instructor MERT KAYHAN |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None. |
Course Objectives: | The course is designed to provide students with basic principles, concepts and key issues in Sociology, Political Science, and (Social) Psychology with reference to the formation, rise and decline of social movements and how these both make use of and are represented in/with various media. Its purpose is also to introduce a sense of comparative and critical analysis with regards to social movements. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1. Distinguish a social movement from a protest, sit-up, petition campaign, online activism. 2. Have a critical understanding of slacktivism. 3. Compare and contrast digital and conventional social movements. 4. Have a critical understanding of the functionalisation of new media by social movements. 5. Have a critical understanding of the historical period against which a specific social movement is investigated and the use of respective media. |
Social movements are roughly defined as social change at local, national or global level. This change can take place in terms of affecting the human rights issues and concerns or policies, ethnic, national or gender equality issues, environmental and class changes driven by people rather than the governments of power regimes. This course will discuss the link between media technologies, including the digital and mobile ones and social movements of the recent past. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction | |
2) | Printing Press and Modernity, Enlightenment | |
3) | Newspapers and French Nationalism | |
4) | Radio and National Socialism in Germany | |
5) | Television and Collective Paranoid in Cold War Years | |
6) | Film and Americanization, Europeanization in Africa | |
7) | Audio and Video Cassettes and Mobilization I | |
8) | Audio-Video Cassettes and Mobilization II | |
9) | Digital Media and Middle Eastern Spring I | |
10) | Digital Media and Middle Eastern Spring II | |
11) | Cell Phone and Crowd | |
12) | Twitter and Green Movement in Iran | |
13) | Social Movements and New Media: Where do we come from, where do we go now? | |
14) | Wrap-up session |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | 1) Generation as a Sociological Problem, David I. Kertzer, Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 9 (1983), pp. 125-149. 2) Social Movements and New Media, Brian D. Load, Sociology Compass 2/6 (2008), pp. 1920–1933. 3) Alice Mattoni (2017) A situated understanding of digital technologies in socialmovements. Media ecology and media practice approaches, Social Movement Studies, 16:4,494-505, DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2017.131. |
References: |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 1 | % 10 |
Homework Assignments | 6 | % 30 |
Midterms | 1 | % 20 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 4 | 56 |
Homework Assignments | 6 | 6 | 36 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 138 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Adequate knowledge in mathematics, science and computer engineering; the ability to use theoretical and practical knowledge in these areas in complex engineering problems. | |
2) | Ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems; ability to select and apply appropriate analysis and modeling methods for this purpose. | 2 |
3) | Ability to design a complex system, process, device or product to meet specific requirements under realistic constraints and conditions; ability to apply modern design methods for this purpose. | 3 |
4) | Ability to develop, select and use modern techniques and tools necessary for the analysis and solution of complex problems encountered in computer engineering applications; ability to use information technologies effectively. | |
5) | Ability to design, conduct experiments, collect data, analyze and interpret results for the study of complex engineering problems or computer engineering research topics. | 3 |
6) | Ability to work effectively within and multi-disciplinary teams; individual study skills. | 2 |
7) | Ability to communicate effectively in verbal and written Turkish; knowledge of at least one foreign language; ability to write active reports and understand written reports, to prepare design and production reports, to make effective presentations, to give and receive clear and understandable instructions. | |
8) | Awareness of the necessity of lifelong learning; ability to access information, to follow developments in science and technology and to renew continuously. | |
9) | To act in accordance with ethical principles, professional and ethical responsibility; information on the standards used in engineering applications. | |
10) | Information on business practices such as project management, risk management and change management; awareness of entrepreneurship and innovation; information about sustainable development. | |
11) | Knowledge of the effects of engineering practices on health, environment and safety in the universal and social scale and the problems of the era reflected in engineering; awareness of the legal consequences of engineering solutions. |