ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINEERING
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
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.

Basic information

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.

Learning Outcomes

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.

Course Content

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.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

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

Sources

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:

Evaluation System

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

ECTS / Workload Table

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

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)	Have sufficient background in mathematics, science and artificial intelligence engineering.
2)	Use theoretical and applied knowledge in the fields of mathematics, science and artificial intelligence engineering together for engineering solutions.
3)	Identify, define, formulate and solve engineering problems, select and apply appropriate analytical methods and modeling techniques for this purpose.
4)	Analyse a system, system component or process and design it under realistic constraints to meet desired requirements; apply modern design methods in this direction.
5)	Select and use modern techniques and tools necessary for engineering applications.
6)	Design and conduct experiments, collect data, and analyse and interpret results.
7)	Work effectively both as an individual and as a multi-disciplinary team member.
8)	Access information via conducting literature research, using databases and other resources
9)	Follow the developments in science and technology and constantly update themself with an awareness of the necessity of lifelong learning.
10)	Use information and communication technologies together with computer software with at least the European Computer License Advanced Level required by their field.
11)	Communicate effectively, both verbal and written; know a foreign language at least at the European Language Portfolio B1 General Level.
12)	Have an awareness of the universal and social impacts of engineering solutions and applications; know about entrepreneurship and innovation; and have an awareness of the problems of the age.
13)	Have a sense of professional and ethical responsibility.
14)	Have an awareness of project management, workplace practices, employee health, environment and work safety; know the legal consequences of engineering practices.