FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION
Department of New Media and Communication
NMC 490 | Course Introduction and Application Information
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Media, Culture and Technology
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
(hour/week) |
Application/Lab
(hour/week) |
Local Credits
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ECTS
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NMC 490
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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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4
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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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| Course Objectives | Developing student’s analytical thinking skills on debates surrounding technology and media, discussing technological breakthroughs in cinema and media within a contextual framework. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course is divided into four parts. In the first part major technological breakthroughs in daily life will be discussed. In the second part cinema, media, and technology relation will be analyzed. Consequently, the third part will focus on debates surrounding cinema, media and future; concepts like utopia and dystopia will be major concerns in here. In the last part representations of technology in cinema and media will be analyzed in relation to science fiction genre. |
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Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses | ||
| Supportive Courses |
X
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| Transferable Skill Courses |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction to the course. Handing out syllabus. | |
| 2 | Technology and society | Raymond Williams. “The technology and the society,” in Television: Technology and Cultural Form. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Pres,1992. 9–19 |
| 3 | Media, home and family | Silverstone R. Television and Everyday Life. Routledge, 1994.(Ch.2) 2452. |
| 4 | Internet and new media in everyday life | Kraut, R, Brynin, M. and Kiesler, S. Computers, Phones and the Internet. Domesticating Information Technology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006. 3.21 |
| 5 | Media networks and web culture | van Dijk, J. The Network Society, 2nd edition. London: Sage, 2010 (ch. 2) |
| 6 | Media, technology and globalization | Ritzer, George. Globalization: A Basic Text. West Sussex, UK: WileyBlackwell, 2010. Ch. 10. |
| 7 | Midterm | |
| 8 | Body, identity and technology | Marks, Laura U. "Thinking Multisensory Culture." in: Paragraph. Vol. 31, No. 2, July 2008, p. 123–137. |
| 9 | Science fiction: Race, sex, and gender. | Haraway, Donna. 1985. “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s.” in Socialist Review 15/80. 65101.pp. 1-42 |
| 10 | Cyberspace | Benedikt, Michael. “Introduction to Cyberspace: First Steps” in Michael Benedikt (ed.) Cyberspace: First Steps.pp. 1-25 |
| 11 | Science fiction: Utopia, dystopia, mythology | Berman, R. (2010) Democratic Destruction: Ruins and Emancipation in the American Tradition in Julia Hell, Andreas Schönle (ed.) Ruins of Modernity. Welcome To Duke University Pres, pp. 104-118 |
| 12 | Cyberculture | G. Deleuze & F. Guattari, “Introduction: Rhizome” in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, tr. By Brian Massumi, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002, pp. 3–26. |
| 13 | Science fiction: Time and space | |
| 14 | Science fiction: Depths of knowledge and collective un/conscious | Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny” in David Mc Lintock, Trans., The Uncanny. New York: Penguin Books, 2003. 123–134. |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Storey, J. (2012). Cultural theory and popular culture: An introduction. Harlow (England): Pearson.ISBN: 0195312805; Dijk, J. D. (2010). The network society: Social aspects of new media. London: Sage.ISBN: 0761962824. Hell, J.; Schönle, A. (2010). Ruins of modernity. Durham: Duke University Press.ISBN: 0822344742. |
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EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation |
1
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20
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| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments |
2
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50
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| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam |
1
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30
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| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
3
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70
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
1
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30
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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 |
2
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9
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18
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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 |
0
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| Final Exam |
1
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12
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12
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| Total |
120
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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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