1	Course Title:	DIGITAL DIPLOMACY
2	Course Code:	ULU4119
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	4
6	Semester:	7
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	5
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	3
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	English
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Doç. Dr. KADER ÖZLEM
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Doç. Dr. Kader ÖZLEM Uludağ Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü Siyasi Tarih Anabilim Dalı 16059 Görükle-BURSA Tel: 0224 294 11 56 e-mail: kaderozlem@uludag.edu.tr
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	Digital technologies have revolutionised the world of diplomacy.Digital technologies can impact diplomacy practices and the way governments contact foreign audience and other countries. Even though the goals of diplomacy remain similar, new media platforms should make us reconsider the structure and processes of diplomacy. Today, it is easier to governments to reach wide international audience and adjust their messages to online communities and harness online audience for diplomatic efforts. In addition, countries can overcome the obstacles of classic diplomacy while using for instance virtual embassies. However, social media enhance the power of non-governmental players who can impact diplomatic efforts. Therefore, digital diplomacy presents many options for global engagement, but also new challenges. Thus, analyzing the impact of new media on diplomacy and international communication as well as the ability of these technologies to reinforce networks and contacts are a new front in the study of digital diplomacy and diplomacy studies in general. The course will present students will relevant theoretical and empirical aspects of digital diplomacy while discussing case studies from different countries. The course will also present current examples of diplomats harnessing digital media for diplomatic efforts. The students will analyze different digital platforms including cellular applications, social media, virtual reality and augmented reality glasses and more.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	The students in the course can develop a mini-scale project with Ministries of Foreign Affairs around the world as well as High Tech companies and research institutes. The course will provide the students with tools for analyzing the impact of new media on diplomacy as well as applied tools required for putting together digital diplomacy campaigns.

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Learning Outcomes:

1 Learning about different digital platforms ; 2 Critically analyze the effect of new media on digital diplomacy; 3 Getting tools to develop digital diplomacy campaigns; 4 Know different digital platforms used for managing campaigns of digital diplomacy ;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Presentation of course content and course materials
2	Introduction of Digital Diplomacy
3	Technology discourse and diplomacy
4	Digital nativity and diplomacy
5	Computerized simulations and diplomacy: The case of Cyberdiplomacy
6	Virtual worlds and diplomacy
7	The effect of social media on diplomacy
8	Diplomacy and computer games
9	Diplomacy and virtual reality and augmented reality
10	Diplomasinin geleceği: Telepresence (Telebulunma)
11	Selfie diplomacy
12	Digital Diplomacy in times of crisis
13	Türkiye's Digital Diplomacy
14	General Evaluation

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Andreas Sandre,Digital Diplomacy: Conversations on Innovation in Foreign Policy,Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,2015. Corneliu Bjola, Marcus Holmes, Digital Diplomacy Theory and Practice, Routledge,2015. Manor, I. The Digitalization of Ambassadors. In The Digitalization of Public Diplomacy Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan,2019. Gilboa, E. Digital Diplomacy. In C. M. Constantinou, P. Kerr, & P. Sharp (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Diplomacy London, UK: SAGE,2016.
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	Lecture, discussion, question-answer methods and techniques are applied in the teaching of the course.
Information	In the assessment and evaluation of the course, besides the midterm and the final exam, self-evaluations during the semester are also considered.

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ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	3	42
Practicals/Labs	0	0	0
Self Study and Preparation	14	2	28
Homeworks, Performances	0	0	0
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	1	40	40
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	40	40
Total WorkLoad			150
Total workload/ 30 hr			5
ECTS Credit of the Course			5

26	CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS
PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10 LO1 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LO2 0 0 0 4 5 1 0 0 0 0 LO3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 0 LO4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High