Course Information
SemesterCourse Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleT+P+LCreditNumber of ECTS Credits
2MİL108Media History2+0+023

 
Course Details
Language of Instruction Turkish
Level of Course Unit Associate Degree
Department / Program Media and Communication
Type of Program Formal Education
Type of Course Unit Compulsory
Course Delivery Method Face To Face
Objectives of the Course It is aimed to teach that society and human life cannot be read independently from the history of communication, which includes the development processes of the media, and that digital developments that make themselves felt predominantly in every field from private life to business life, from economy to management, from health to education, from politics to entertainment, from art to media, and to examine the digital culture revealed by these developments as a whole and to examine the current debates in this field.
Course Content In this course, the development of communication and media, the conditions of its emergence, its impact on social development and politics are discussed. Students are expected to have knowledge about the transformation of lifestyles in this period and all over the world in which the ways of working, learning, ways of communicating, consumption habits, forms of participation in public life, entertainment concepts have undergone great changes with the developments in the internet and information and communication technologies in recent years.
Course Methods and Techniques Lecture, discussion, assignment
Prerequisites and co-requisities None
Course Coordinator None
Name of Lecturers Instructor BETÜL GÜNDOĞAN betul.gundogan@gedik.edu.tr
Assistants None
Work Placement(s) No

Recommended or Required Reading
Resources Charlie Gere. (2008). Digital Culture. London: Reaktions Books
David Crowley and Paul Heyer. (2019) HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION: From Stone Age Symbols to Social Media, Istanbul: Siyasal Kitabevi.
Course Notes
Lecture, case study, question-answer, discussion

Course Category
Social Sciences %40
Field %60

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Activities are given in detail in the section of "Assessment Methods and Criteria" and "Workload Calculation"

Assessment Methods and Criteria
In-Term Studies Quantity Percentage
Mid-terms 1 % 40
Final examination 1 % 60
Total
2
% 100

 
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration Total Work Load
Course Duration 14 2 28
Hours for off-the-c.r.stud 14 1 14
Mid-terms 2 10 20
Final examination 1 20 20
Total Work Load   Number of ECTS Credits 3 82

 
Course Learning Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
NoLearning Outcomes
1 Students will be able to describe the characteristics of the commonalities between communication and information.
2 Students describe the social roles of the media.
3 Students will explore media effects in the context of communication theories.
4 Students will know how different forms of society and different technologies are organised through communication.
5 Students will be able to contribute to the field of media and communication as a member of digital culture.

 
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTopicsStudy MaterialsMaterials
1 Definition of communication, types, forms and models of communication, multidimensional nature of communication Lecture notes
2 The relationship between history, civilisation and communication Lecture notes
3 Literacy tradition, Printing Revolution, Electric and Wired World, Image and Sound Lecture notes
4 Modern communication tools and the transformation of society through communication Lecture notes
5 The place and importance of media today Lecture notes
6 Theories of media and communication: theories of the period of strong influences Lecture notes
7 Theories of media and communication: theories of the period of limited effects Lecture notes
8 Digitalisation, digital culture, foundations of digital culture Lecture notes
9 Cybernetic Age/ cybernetic discourses, Cybernetic computers and the cold war, computers and cybernetics in civilian life Lecture notes
10 Digital Avangarde/ Art and cybernetics, John Cage, Interactivity and multimedia, Fluxus and mail art Lecture notes
11 Digital Avangarde/ Other movements, cybernetics and art, technology and the avant-garde in Europe, the beginning of the end of the first computer arts Lecture notes
12 Digital counterculture/ Post-industrial society, Silicon valley, counterculture, second generation cybernetics Lecture notes
13 Digital counterculture/Computing and counterculture, digital counterculture and new liberalism, internet and world wide web Lecture notes
14 Digital resistances/ Post modernism, post structuralism Lecture notes

 
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11 P12 P13 P14 P15
All 2 3 2 4 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 3 2 3 3
C1 1 2 1 4 5 3 4 3 4 3 2 4 1 3 3
C2 2 4 2 5 4 2 5 2 2 4 4 4 4 3 5
C3 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 2 3 4 4 2 2 3 1
C4 1 5 5 5 3 3 1 4 1 3 3 3 2 2 4
C5 3 2 2 4 2 5 2 3 4 5 4 2 1 2 1

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