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
NMD2904	Digital Media Design II	Spring	2	2	3	6

Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Must Course
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SİNAN AŞÇI
Course Lecturer(s):	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi PRÖHL JOCHEN JAKOB Prof. Dr. NAZLI EDA NOYAN CELAYİR
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course aims to provide advanced knowledge about digital media usage. It has also practical aim as giving students the computer skills including using photo editing, audio-visual editing, and recording software, multimedia design, and focusing on methods of creating digital media through painting programs, digital image editing, and time-based authoring programs and production in groups.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
- Visualize concepts.
- Recognize typography principles and apply them to their work.
- Enrich their visual vocabulary as well as design terminology
- Build an awareness of design process
- Explore composition, components, and concepts in graphic design by combining word and image
- Experiment with creative ways of bringing word and image together
- Exhibit critical thinking skills in the formation of graphic design and draw a synthesis to the given design problem and media
- Establish a positive, motivating and stimulating team member character
- Display succesful execution and presentation techniques with the use of various graphic design tools, media and computer technology.

Course Content

This course is developed for giving students basic knowledge on digital media and the opportunities it provides journalists and other media professionals, with a particular emphasis on creating content for digital platforms.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction and Overview of the Course
2)	Theoretical and Historical Background
3)	Still Images
4)	Moving Images
5)	Presentation and Elaboration of Project #1
6)	Text
7)	Sound
8)	Data Mining
9)	Midterm (Presentation and Elaboration of Project #2)
10)	Citizen Journalism
11)	Interactive Environments
12)	Digital Social Media
13)	Artificial Intelligence &Automation Platforms
14)	Digital Games

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

Moggridge, Bill (2010). Designing Media.

References:

Clair, Kate. Typographic Workbook. NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1999.
Spiekermann, Erik. Stop Stealing Sheep. CA: Adobe Press, 1993.
Jean, Georges. Yazı, İnsanlığın Belleği, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2001.
Scott McCloud. Understanding Comics. Perennial; Reprint edition, 1994.
Print MAGAZINE, Communication Arts MAGAZINE
Additional handouts will be given in class.
Follow:
@AIGAdesign
@communicationarts
@CreativeReview
@DesignObserver
@printmag
Tasarım ve Sanat Tarihi / Design and Art History
http://www.designhistory.org
www.all-art. org
www.artcyclopedia. com
www.rleggat. com/photohistory
Tasarım Birlikleri / Design Associations
www.icograda. org
www.aiga.org
www.gmk.org. tr
Design Portals/ Tasarım Portalları:
http://thedesignenc yclopedia. org
www.dexigner. com
www.designrelated. com
www.typotheque. com
www.graphic- design.com
www.designwritingre search.org
Lorem İpsum
www.lipsum.com
What’s a Print:
www.moma.org/ exhibitions/ 2001/whatisaprin t/flash.html
Muzeler / Museums:
www.designmuseum. org
www.cooperhewitt. org
www.postermuseum. pl
www.museum-gestaltu ng.ch
www.bauhaus. de
www.tate.org. uk
Posterler/Posters:
http://www.theartof poster.com
Tasarımcılar / Designers
www.edfella. com
www.sagmeister. com
www.davidcarsondesi gn.com
www.barnbrook. net
www.miltonglaser. com
www.edwardtufte. com
http://scottmccloud.com
İlginç siteler/bloglar + ilham kaynakları / Interesting sites/blogs + sources of inspiration
www.papercritters. com/pc.php

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Application	3	% 60
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	2	28
Application	14	2	28
Study Hours Out of Class	14	6	84
Homework Assignments	1	5	5
Final	1	2	2
Total Workload			147

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.	1
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.	2
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.	1
7)	To be able to develop skills on gathering necessary data by using scientific methods, analyzing and circulating them in order to produce content.	2
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.	3
9)	To be able to operate collaborative projects with national/international colleagues in the field of new media, journalism and communication.	1
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.	1