COURSE SYLLABUS

DIGITAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY

1	Course Title:	DIGITAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY
2	Course Code:	SOS5119
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	Second Cycle
5	Year of Study:	1
6	Semester:	1
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	5
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Doç. Dr. OZAN AŞIK
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Dr. Öğretim Üyesi M. Ozan Aşık Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyoloji Bölümü ozanasik@uludag.edu.tr
18	Website:	http://bilgipaketi.uludag.edu.tr/Ders/Index/1230807
19	Objective of the Course:	This course will look at various examples of digital culture, the impact of digital media on the relationship between the individual and society, how digital technologies both transform social practices and how people use these technologies, and how digital technologies change the role of media in our daily lives.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	Students taking this course learn to analyze the role of media in social relations in the digital age.

Learning Outcomes:

1	Understanding how our individual and collective lives in our age are shaped and mediated by a complex and pervasive media culture, with digitalization and the internet at every moment;
2	Describing the complex relationship between media, technology and society;
3	Comprehending how digital media permeates every aspect of society and culture from politics to economy, education to health, family to daily life;
4	Exploring how digital media offers people a wide range of opportunities and seriously challenges our stereotypes and ways of thinking and living;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Course Introduction and Introduction
2	Sociology of Digital Media
3	Network Society
4	Digital Politics
5	Big Data, Surveillance and Capitalism I
6	Big Data, Surveillance and Capitalism II
7	Digital Self
8	Presentation of Self
9	Gender, Digital Sexuality
10	Platforms
11	Digital Labor
12	Digital Sociological Research I
13	Digital Sociological Research II
14	"Post-Truth Era"?

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Hepp, Andreas (2022). “Agency, Social Relations, and Order: Media Sociology’s Shift into the Digital.” Communications. Castells, Manuel (2008). Ağ Toplumunun Yükselişi, Cilt 1, Enformasyon Çağı: Ekonomi, Toplum ve Kültür. İstanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları Lupton, Deborah (2015) Digital Sociology. London; New York: Routledge Gürel, Emet & Nazlı, Azra (2019). “Dijital Aktivizm: Change.org Kampanyaları Üzerine Bir Analiz.” Anadolu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 19(4): 187-206. Zuboff, Shoshana (2019). “Surveillance Capitalism and the Challenge of Collective Action.” New Labor Forum, 28(1): 10-29. Civan, Rukiye Kemiksiz (2022). “Büyük Veri Çağında Kişisel Veri Güvenliği Üzerine Bir Alan Araştırması: Dijital Yerliler ve Dijital Göçmenlerin Güvenlik Algıları.” Maltepe Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dergisi, 9(1): 64-91. Lokke, Eirik (2018). Mahremiyet: Dijital Toplumda Özel Hayat. İstanbul: Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları Couldry, Nick & Mejias, Ulises (2018) “Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject.” Television & New Media, 20(4): 336-349. Kavut, Sevgi (2020) “Kimliğin Dönüşümü: Dijital Kimlikler.” Selçuk İletişim Dergisi, 13(2): 987-1008. Hogan, Bernie (2010). “The Presentation of Self in the Age of Social Media.” Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 30(6): 377-386. Ünlü, Derya Gül, Kuş, Oğuz, Göksu, Oğuz (2020). ““Videolarda Gerçek Hayattaki Gibi Değilim, Rol Yapmaktayım”: TikTok Kullanıcılarının Benlik Performansları Üzerine Bir İnceleme.” Intermedia International e-Journal, 7(12): 115-128. Yıldız, Filiz & Özarslan, Zeynep (2022). “Kadınların Deneyimlerinden Dijital Flört Şiddetine Bakmak.” Etkileşim, 9: 72-101. Pruchniewska, Urszula (2020). ““I Like That It’s My Choice a Couple Different Times”: Gender, Affordances, and User Experience on Bumble Dating.” International Journal of Communication, 14: 2422–2439. Sarı, Ümit & Sancaklı, Petek (2020). “Küyerelleşmenin Dijital Platformların İçerik Tanıtımına Etkisi: Netflix Örneği.” Erciyes İletişim Dergisi, 7(1): 243-260. Poell, Thomas, Nieborg, David, Duffy, Brooke Erin (2022). Platforms and Cultural Production. Cambridge; Medford: Polity Kocabay, Nihal Şener (2015). “İzleyici Emtiasının Dönüşümü: Sosyal Ağlarda Sömürü ve Kullanıcı Emeği.” İçinde: İletişim Çalışmaları (ed. Aydın Ziya Özgür & Aytekin İşman). Sakarya: Sakarya Üniversitesi (ss. 405-415). Fuchs, Christian (2013). “Class and Exploitation on the Internet.” İçinde: Digital Labor (ed. Trebor Scholz). New York; London: Routledge (ss. 265-281). Saka, Erkan (2021) “Dijital Etnografi Literatürüne Bir Bakış.” Strata, 8: 71-83. Selwyn, Neil (2019). What is Digital Sociology? Cambridge; Medford: Polity Tatlıoğlu, Sevra Su & Güllüpınar, Fuat (2021) “Dijitalleşen Dünyada Etnografi Yapmak: Dijital Etnografinin İmkânları ve Sınırları Üzerine.” Strata, 8: 85-107. Wardle, Claire & Derakhshan, Hossein (2017) “Information Disorder: Toward an Interdisciplinary Framework for Research and Policy Making.” Council of Europe report DGI(2017)09. Strasbourg Cedex Büyükafşar, Mehmet (2022). “Sağlık Mezenformasyonu: Çevrimiçi Kanallardan Yayılan Yanlış Bilgi Salgını.” Marmara Üniversitesi Öneri Dergisi, 17(57): 73-101.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	60
Total	2	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	written exam
Information

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	2	28
Practicals/Labs	0	0	0
Self Study and Preparation	14	6	84
Homeworks, Performances	0	0	0
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	1	19	19
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	19	19
Total WorkLoad			150
Total workload/ 30 hr			5
ECTS Credit of the Course			5

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

	PQ1	PQ2	PQ3	PQ4	PQ5	PQ6	PQ7	PQ8	PQ9	PQ10	PQ11	PQ12
LO1	5	3	4	4	3	3	4	5	4	3	4	5
LO2	5	3	4	4	5	3	4	4	4	3	3	3
LO3	3	5	4	3	5	5	5	3	4	4	4	3
LO4	4	4	4	4	5	5	3	5	3	3	4	4

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High