FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION
Department of New Media and Communication
NMC 404 | Course Introduction and Application Information
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Issues in Contemporary Media
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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 404
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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 |
Required
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| Course Level |
First Cycle
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| Course Objectives | This course aims to introduce the students issues that dominate the current media agenda and to help them develop a critical perspective in analyzing the media texts. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course provides students with the necessary theoretical and methodological knowledge to understand and analyze different forms and means of communication. The course defines the main issues and porous borders of the communication studies as an interdisciplinary field. It gives students with the necessary analytical skills to criticize media texts. |
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Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses |
X
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| Media and Management Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction to the course: Course overview, expectations, and assessment methods. Defining contemporary media: scope, platforms, and paradigms. Introduction to major themes: media convergence, globalization, digitization. | |
| 2 | Fake News, Misinformation, and Propaganda: ● Post-truth, ● Information disorder, ● Information regulation actors. Guest 1: Emre Saklıca (Teyit.org Chief Editor) | Pretus, C., Servin-Barthet, C., Harris, E. A., Brady, W. J., Vilarroya, O., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2023). The role of political devotion in sharing partisan misinformation and resistance to fact-checking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Uzunoğlu, S., Sabanci, A.A. (2021). From Useful Idiots to Useful Facts: What Is Behind the Fake News Debate. “Information Nightmare: Fake News, Manipulation and Post-Truth Politics in the Digital Age” https://www.peterlang.com/document/1111267 IFCN Code of Principles https://www.ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org/ |
| 3 | Media and Entrepreneurship ● Core principles of media entrepreneurship ● Emerging business models in media Guest: Kültigin Kağan Akbulut (Argonotlar) Guest 2: Doruk Tokçabalaban (Kompleks.org) | Newman, N., Fletcher, R., Eddy, K., Robertson, C. T., & Nielsen, R. K. (2023). Digital News Report 2023.https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2023 Uzunoğlu, S. (2020). The Politics of Media in Turkey: Chronicle of a Stillborn Media System. In G. M. Tezvür (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics. Oxford University Press. Goyanes, M., Scheffauer, R., & de Zúñiga, H. G. (2023). News Distribution and Sustainable Journalism: Effects of Social Media News Use and Media Skepticism on Citizens’ Paying Behavior. Mass Communication and Society, 1-24. |
| 4 | Racism and anti-refugee discourses in Media Guest: Dilan Taşdemir (Medya ve Göç Derneği) | Secen, S., & Öztürk, A. (2023). How Refugees Respond to Anti-Refugee Elite Discourse: No Exit, But Less Voice. Temizisler, S. (2023). The Mediatisation of Migration Issues During the ‘Refugee Crisis’: A Comparative Case-Study of the UK, Denmark and Germany. In Anxieties of Migration and Integration in Turbulent Times (pp. 207-224). Cham: Springer International Publishing. |
| 5 | Mid-Term I | |
| 6 | Media, Curation and Podcasting Sphere Guest: Tansel Erdem Yılmaz (Wiser, Medyapod) | Brinson, N. H., & Lemon, L. L. (2023). Investigating the effects of host trust, credibility, and authenticity in podcast advertising. Journal of Marketing Communications, 29(6), 558-576. |
| 7 | Media, sustainability and survival of small newsrooms* Guests: Halide Polatlı (Demokrat Gündem), Sibel Kahraman (Bursa Tanık), Yusuf Eren (Siirt Ne Haber) *(This week’s guest contributions will be mainly in Turkish) | Muurlink, O., & Marx, E. V. (2023). Out of Print: What the Pandemic-Era Newspaper Crisis in Australia Teaches Us about the Role of Rural and Regional Newspapers in Creating Sustainable Communities. Sustainability, 15(6), 5439. Radsch, C. C. Understanding and Responding to Global Emerging News Threats. |
| 8 | Infotainment Guest: Ilgaz Fakıoğlu (Former Sputnik Digital, Cumhuriyet +, Scrolli) | Brants, Kees, “Who’s afraid of infotainment?”, European Journal of Communication, 1998: 13 (3): 315-35. Dai, X., & Wang, J. (2023). Effect of online video infotainment on audience attention. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(1), 1-18. |
| 9 | Influencer Culture Guest: Will be announced later | Van Driel, L., & Dumitrica, D. (2021). Selling brands while staying “Authentic”: The professionalization of Instagram influencers. Convergence, 27(1), 66-84. Topates, A. K. (2023). Women Entrepreneurs as Vloggers: Turkish Beauty YouTubers in the Context of Simulative Labor. |
| 10 | Environment in media. Guest: Baha Okar (Seferi Keçi) & Elif Ünal (Former Yeşil Gazete, Save the Children) | Harvey, David, Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference, Blackwell, 1996, p.117-210 |
| 11 | Mid-Term II | |
| 12 | Surveillance Guest: Ahmet Alphan Sabancı (NewsLabTurkey) | Snowden, E. (2019). Permanent Record: A Memoir of a Reluctant Whistleblower. Pan Macmillan. Bauman, Zygmunt, Bigo, Didier, Esteves, Paulo, Guild, Elspeth, Jabri, Vivienne, Lyon, David, and Walker, R. B. J. ”After Snowden: Rethinking the impact of surveillance”, International Political Sociology, 2014: 8:121–4 |
| 13 | Representation and Diversity in Media, ● Issues of gender in media representation. ● Case studies on media diversity initiatives. Guest: Will be announced later | Griffiths, Mark D. and Kuss, Daria J., “Adolescent social media addiction”, Education and Health, 2017: Vol.35 No.3. |
| 14 | Violence against women and its representation in the media Guest: Will be announced later | Dai, Y. (2023). The phenomenon of feminist stigmatization and the research of cyber violence against women. Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, 8, 1402-1410. Karlsson, N., Lila, M., Gracia, E., & Wemrell, M. (2021). Representation of intimate partner violence against women in Swedish news media: A discourse analysis. Violence against women, 27(10), 1499-1524. |
| 15 | Artificial Intelligence and Media | Gutierrez Lopez, M., Porlezza, C., Cooper, G., Makri, S., MacFarlane, A., & Missaoui, S. (2023). A question of design: Strategies for embedding AI-driven tools into journalistic work routines. Digital Journalism, 11(3), 484-503. Pashevich, E. (2018). Automation of news production in Norway: Augmenting newsroom with artificial intelligence (Master's thesis). Zagorulko, D. I. (2023). ChatGPT in newsrooms: adherence of AI-generated content to journalism standards and prospects for its implementation in digital media. Vcheni zapysky TNU imeni VI Vernadskoho, 34(73), 1. |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Koltay, Andras, New Media and Freedom of Expression, Oxford Hart Publishing. ISBN: 1509916482.; Gavan, Titley, Racism and Media, Sage, 2019. ISBN: 144629854X |
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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 | ||
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm |
2
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50
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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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| Total |
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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3
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42
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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 |
0
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| Project |
0
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| Seminar / Workshop |
0
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| Oral Exam |
0
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| Midterms |
2
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15
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30
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| Final Exam |
1
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25
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25
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| Total |
145
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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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NEWS |ALL NEWS
‘Media’ Summit at Izmir University of Economics
International Press Institute (IPI) organized a symposium on ‘Economy and Financial Sustainability of Media’ hosted by Izmir University of Economics (IUE).
Received a special invitation from the USA for the Italian director's documentary
Dr. Alper Gedik, Lecturer at Department of New Media and Communication, Izmir University of Economics (IUE), went to the USA to introduce
Laura Aymerich-Franch visited our department
Laura Aymerich-Franch who is currently a senior research fellow at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) was a visiting scholar in the Department of
Women and the Media in the Middle East
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nahed Eltantawy, who will be visiting the Media and Communication Department as a part of the Fulbright Specialist Program,
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
YAYINCILIKTA TELİF HAKLARI İEÜ’DE TARTIŞILDI
İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi, “Radyo Televizyon Yayıncılığı ve Telif” konferans ve sergisine ev sahipliği yaptı. İEU İletişim Fakültesi Dekanı Prof. Dr. Ebru Uzunoğlu’nun
