FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION
Department of New Media and Communication
NMC 310 | Course Introduction and Application Information
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Digital Media Practices for Social Change
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
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Application/Lab
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Local Credits
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ECTS
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NMC 310
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Fall/Spring
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3
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0
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3
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5
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| Prerequisites |
None
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| Course Language |
English
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| Course Type |
Elective
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| Course Level |
First Cycle
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| Mode of Delivery | Online | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | Group WorkCritical feedbackSimulationLecture / Presentation | |||||
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| Course Objectives | This course is designed to provide a stimulating interdisciplinary and practice-led environment in which students explore contemporary issues in and approaches to the use of digital media for social change. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course explores digital media for humanitarian studies drawing from across the disciplines of sociology, politics, art and design, and informatics.Through examination of relevant international instruments, research, case studies, and agency policies, students will develop the skills necessary for understanding the use of media in development and humanitarian studies. |
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Core Courses | |
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| Supportive Courses |
X
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| Media and Management Skills Courses | ||
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WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Week 1: Introductions. What do we understand by the phrase of digital media practices for social changes in forced displacement settings? What experiences do we bring to this field of study? We will introduce ourselves to each other, to how the course will work, and to some of the key concepts that we'll be dealing with in the weeks ahead. | |
| 2 | Week 2: Humanitarian framework and principles, the journey of relief efforts. During the week, the students will start learning the international framework within which humanitarian agencies operate and begin exploring contemporary issues in digital media practices with a focus on humanitarian assistance and protection frameworks, including analysis of guiding principles, associated policies, and evolving mandates of refugee-serving organizations such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). | Essential Reading: Scott, Martin. 2014. Media and Development:Development Matters. Chapter 1: Media for Development: Magic Bullet or Corporate Tool |
| 3 | Week 3: Learn by doing: let’s jump right in! Project and campaign design in humanitarian and forced displacement settings (1) • Identifying and analysizing audiences • Working with communities • Humanitarian negotiation | Essential Reading: Scott, Martin. 2014. Media and Development : Development Matters. Chapter 2: Participatory Communication in Development: More Questions than Answers. |
| 4 | Week 4: Learn by doing: let’s jump right in! Project and campaign design in humanitarian and forced displacement settings (2) • Defining communication objectives and messages • Selecting channels and media for presenting information | Essential Reading: Scott, Martin. 2014. Media and Development : Development Matters. Chapter 5: Strategies of Humanitarian Communication-Choose Wisely. |
| 5 | Week 5: Learn by doing: let’s jump right in! Information and Knowledge Management Simulation in Emergencies. Emergency operations can be launched within 72 hours to respond to humanitarian crisis. In this class, we will learn the key tools, practical skills and new approaches in managing data, information, and knowledge in emergency response settings. | Multiple external facilitators. Essential Reading: Policy on Emergency Preparedness and Response |
| 6 | Week 6: The internet of Humanitarian Things. While learning about how new technologies are being adopted and adapted to humanitarian causes, our discussion will be about the lure of technological solutions to complex socio-political problems. | Guest Speaker: Haidar Baqir, Former Information and Communication Technology Officer, World Food Programme. Essential Reading: Madianou, Mirca 2019. Technocolonialism: Digital Innovation and Data Practices in the Humanitarian Response to Refugee Crises. Essential viewing: Cashing in on Crisis? The Refugee Eye Scan Experiment- Youtube here. |
| 7 | Week 7: Participation and Representation from Below. Building on our discussions of changing digital infrastructures, we will explore the politics of participation, colloboration, representation and the ethics of the audience. | Guest Speaker: Vincent Briard, Senior Regional Community Based Protection Officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Essential Reading: Cabot, Heath. 2016. “‘Refugee Voices’: Tragedy, Ghosts, and the Anthropology of Not Knowing.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 45 (6): 645–72. Chernobrov, Dmitry.2018. Digital Volunteer Networks and Humanitarian Crisis Reporting in Digital Journalism. |
| 8 | Week 8: Design for Development, Data Visualization and Digital Humanities. The focus of this session is on the emergent communicative and design strategies by activists and first responders, and practiced-based researchers. | Guest Speaker: Timothy Mutuerandu, Senior Global Information Management Officer, UNHCR. Essential Reading: Hancox, Donna. 2017. “From Subject to Collaborator: Transmedia Storytelling and Social Research.” Convergence 23 (1): 49–60. Nielsen, B. F. (2012) Participate! A critical investigation into the relationship between participation and empowerment in design for development: 1-8. |
| 9 | Week 9: New directions in Digital Access and Inclusion. We will explore the new directions in digital access, inclusion and participation in the design and implementation of community-centric creative approaches in humanitarian response, primarily focusing on access to digital channels and connectivity that the humanitarian organizations use to enhance engagement with the communities in programming their activities. | Guest Speaker: Hovig Etyemezian, Head of Innovation Service, UNHCR. Essential Reading: Beyond Data Literacy: Reinventing Community Engagement and Empowerment in the Age of Data, Datapop Alliance White Paper Series, September 2015. |
| 10 | Week 10: Mid-term Presentation. The project groups will formulate and present an organization-wide roadmap, with graphic illustrations or visuals to back up the key messages, for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Innovation Service Call for Proposals relating to Digital Access, Inclusion and Participation. | Essential Reading: Data Transformation Strategy 2020-2025: Supporting Protection and Solutions, UNHCR, September 2019, here Kivikuru, Ullamaija. 2015. “The Polyphonic Choir of Well-Doers: Do the Voiceless Get Their Voices Heard via Humanitarian Organisations?” The Journal of International Communication 21 (1): 1–20. |
| 11 | Week 11: Framing Voice in Humanitarian Communication. In this session we will turn to the question of power and participation in the communication flows within and between humanitarian networks. One way to think about this is how people who are marginalised (or silenced) and racialised come to speak and be heard in public space with digital media practices. | Guest Speaker. Mini Zarian Azmin, Assistant Education Officer, Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia. Essential Reading: Wright, Kate. 2018. ‘Helping our beneficiaries tell their own stories?’ International aid agencies and the politics of voice within news production in Global Media and Communication. Fairey, Tiffany. 2018. Whose photo? Whose voice? Who listens? ‘Giving,’ silencing and listening to voice in participatory visual projects in Visual Studies. |
| 12 | Week 12: Bridging the Data and Digital Literacy Divide. We will finally take stock of what we have learned about forms of data and digital media practices thus far and speculate about new ways of thinking about communication rights, repurposing the use of the digital domains to achieve participatory and inclusive dialogue for the underrepresented communities to achieve inclusive, critical, and community-owned dialogue. | Essential Reading: Bridging humanitarian digital divides during Covid-19 John Bryant, Kerrie Holloway, Oliver Lough and Barnaby Willitts-King, Briefing Note, November 2020. UNHCR’s data visualization ‘Space, shelter and scarce resources – coping with COVID-19’ highlighting how acutely vulnerable displaced populations must contend with the pandemic. |
| 13 | Week 13: Group Project Presentations | |
| 14 | Week 14: Group Project Presentations | |
| 15 | Week 15: Class Review | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Scott, Martin. 2014. Media and Development : Development Matters.
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| Suggested Readings/Materials |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation |
1
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10
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| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury |
-
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| Project |
1
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30
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| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm |
1
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20
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| Final Exam |
1
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40
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| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
3
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60
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
1
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40
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ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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3
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48
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| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours) |
16
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0
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| Study Hours Out of Class |
14
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1
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14
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| Field Work |
0
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
0
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| Portfolio |
0
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| Homework / Assignments |
0
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| Presentation / Jury |
-
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-
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0
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| Project |
1
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40
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40
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| Seminar / Workshop |
0
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| Oral Exam |
0
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| Midterms |
1
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18
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18
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| Final Exam |
1
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30
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30
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| Total |
150
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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
* Contribution Level
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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| 1 | To be able to critically discuss and interpret the theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of the discipline of new media and communication. |
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| 2 | To be able to critically interpret theoretical debates concerning the relations between the forms, agents, and factors that play a role in the field of new media and communication. |
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| 3 | To have the fundamental knowledge and ability to use the technical equipment and software programs required by the new media production processes. |
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| 4 | To be able to gather, scrutinize and scientifically investigate data in the processes of production and distribution. |
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| 5 | To be able to use the acquired theoretical knowledge in practice. |
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| 6 | To be able to take responsibility both individually and as a member of a group to develop solutions to problems encountered in the field of new media and communication. |
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| 7 | To be informed about national, regional, and global issues and problems; to be able to generate problem-solving methods depending on the quality of evidence and research, and to acquire the ability to report the conclusions of those methods to the public. |
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| 8 | To be able to critically discuss and draw on theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of other disciplines complementing the field of new media and communication studies. |
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| 9 | To be able to develop and use knowledge and skills towards personal and social goals in a lifelong process. |
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| 10 | To be able to apply social, scientific and professional ethical values in the field of new media and communication. |
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| 11 | To be able to collect datain the areas of new media and communication and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). |
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| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign language at a medium level of fluency efficiently. |
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| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. |
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Received a special invitation from the USA for the Italian director's documentary
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Laura Aymerich-Franch visited our department
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A Partnership Agreement between the Department of Media and Communication and Izmir Journalists Association
“Local Media in Izmir”, a panel organized by the Department of Media and Communication, Izmir University of Economics, was held on Thursday
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