SOFTWARE ENGINEERING | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
NMD3104 | Communication, New Media and Society | Fall 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 : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi TİRŞE ERBAYSAL FİLİBELİ |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi AYBERK CAN ERTUNA |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None. |
Course Objectives: | This course is designed to introduce the students both the classical and contemporary arguments about construction of reality in traditional and new media and equip them with theoretical means to challenge various ways of information disorder. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; The students who have succeeded in this course; - Will have an understanding about the critical perspectives on construction of reality in traditional media. - Will learn about opportunities and limits of social media tools. - Will learn about the recent discussions about concepts such as 'information disorder' and 'fake news'. - Will be able to critically analyse (new) media content. |
Yeni medya teknolojileri haber ve eğlence tüketim alışkanlıklarını çok hızlı değiştirecek bir şekilde gelişmeye devam etmektedir. Medya üretim ve tüketim pratiklerinin birbirine yaklaşması pasif tüketicinin yerini hem üreten hem tüketen 'üretketici'ye bırakmasına sebep oldu. Dolayısıyla yaşadığımız bu çağda, doğruluk, mahremiyet, sorumluluk gibi temel ilkelere bağlı kalma sözü veren geleneksel medya kuruluşlarının bilgi paylaşımı pratikleri birçok üretketici tarafından sorgulanıyor. Ancak, bilgi kirliliği yalnızca bu ağ toplumunun yarattığı durum neticesinde ortaya çıkan bir sonuç olmaktan öte hükümetlerden muhalif hareketlere kadar birçok farklı muhatabının olduğu bir düzensizlik durumu. Bu derste öğrenciler, yeni medya alanındaki bütün bu meseleleri teorik tartışmalarla güçlendirerek analiz edip tartışacak. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction and Overview of the Course | |
2) | News, truth and post-truth | |
3) | Making news: Critical analysis | |
4) | TV Journalism and 24-hour news cycle (National and international scale) | |
5) | Critical analysis of social media | |
6) | Social media and the future of journalism | |
7) | Social media and politics | |
8) | Social media and politics | |
9) | Social media and politics | |
10) | Post-truth era | |
11) | Social media age | |
12) | Project paper presentations & discussion | |
13) | Project paper presentations & discussion | |
14) | Final review of the term |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | - The New Media Monopoly : Ben Bagdikian - Hakikat Sonrası Çağ : Ralph Keyes - Making News: Gaye Tuchman - Manufacturing Consent: Edward Herman / Noam Chomsky - On Television: Pierre Bourdieu - Media on the Move: Daya Kishan Thussu - Big Data (in Social Media): Christian Fuchs - The Power and Political Economy of Social Media (in Social Media) Christian Fuchs - Summarizing the Logic and Operations of Surveillance Capitalism: Shoshana Zuboff - New Media and Changing Perceptions of surveillance: A. Albrechtslund Politics 2.0: Social Media Campaigning: J. Baldwin – Philippi - Nationalism on the social media (C. Fuchs) Cambridge Analytica, IRS scandals - Social Media and New Protest Movements: T. Poell & J. v. Dijck - Challenges of filter bubbles and echochambers: C. Wardle, H. Derakhshan - Social Media Marketing: M. Serazio & B.E. Duffy - Self Representation in Social Media : J. W. Rettberg |
References: | - Wag the Dog – Barry Levinson - The loudest voice (ep. 1-2) - Film: The Great Hack |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 14 | % 10 |
Midterms | 1 | % 40 |
Final | 1 | % 50 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 5 | 70 |
Midterms | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Final | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Total Workload | 118 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products. | |
2) | Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems. | |
3) | Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging. | |
4) | Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem. | |
5) | Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation. | |
6) | Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically. | |
7) | Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams. | |
8) | Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems. | |
9) | Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system. | |
10) | Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities. | |
11) | Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life. | |
12) | Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions. | |
13) | Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions. |