COURSE SYLLABUS

DIJITAL MEDYA VE TOPLUM

1	Course Title:	DIJITAL MEDYA VE TOPLUM
2	Course Code:	SSY3069
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	3
6	Semester:	5
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	6
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	3
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	none
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:	Dr. Mehmet Ozan Aşık
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyoloji Bölümü Tel:0224-294-18-44 E-Posta: ozanasik@uludag.edu.tr
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	Digital media presents us with numerous opportunities as well as many challenges, creating a complex relationship between media, technology and society, while drastically redefining the role of media in our daily lives. This relationship is undergoing a profound series of transformations, with new technologies, new forms of entertainment, new spaces for political debate, and new models of participation and labor emerging online. This course will interrogate how the social, political-economic, and cultural landscape is changing in relation to digital media and information technologies.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	This course will help students understand the social dimensions of the use of digital media technologies that have a significant impact on human psychology and the place and role of the individual in the social relations created by the digital media ecosystem.

Learning Outcomes:

1	Students develop analytical and conceptual tools to understand the complex relationship between digital media and society.;
2	Students acquire the knowledge of how cultural, political and economic environments have changed with the emergence of new media and digital technologies.;
3	Students learn conceptual tools, with which they will analyze case studies to explain how digital media affects your personal and professional life.;
4	Students learn how digital technology affects various social practices and how people shape digital technology.;
5	Students gain knowledge of digital research techniques.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Introduction
2	What is a Digital Life?
3	Network Society
4	Digital Politics
5	Big Data, Surveillance and Capitalism
6	Digital Self
7	Digital Presentation of the Self
8	Gender and Digital Sexuality
9	Platforms
10	Digital Labor
11	Digital Research Methods
12	“Post-Truth Era”?
13	Digital Health
14	Overview of the course.

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	1. Castells, Manuel (2000). The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford; Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2. Couldry, Nick & Mejias, Ulises (2018) “Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject.” Television & New Media, 20(4): 336-349 3. Couldry, Nick (2012). Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice. Cambridge: Polity Press. 4. Fuchs, Christian (2013). “Class and Exploitation on the Internet.” İçinde: Digital Labor (ed. Trebor Scholz). New York; London: Routledge (ss. 265-281). 5. Hogan, Bernie (2010). “The Presentation of Self in the Age of Social Media.” Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 30(6): 377-386. 6. Lupton, Deborah (2015) Digital Sociology. London; New York: Routledge. 7. Philpot, Steven et al. (2022). Using Social Media as a Platform to Publicly Disclose HIV Status among People Living with HIV: Control, Identity, Informing Public Dialogue.” Sociology of Health & Illness, 44(6): 881–898. 8. Poell, Thomas, Nieborg, David, Duffy, Brooke Erin (2022). Platforms and Cultural Production. Cambridge; Medford: Polity. 9. Schaffer, Rebecca et al. (2008). “Producing Genetic Knowledge and Citizenship through the Internet: Mothers, Pediatric Genetics, and Cybermedicine.” Sociology of Health & Illness, 30(1): 145–159. 10. Selwyn, Neil (2019). What is Digital Sociology? Cambridge; Medford: Polity. 11. 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 (ss. 20-48). 12. Zuboff, Shoshana (2019). “Surveillance Capitalism and the Challenge of Collective Action.” New Labor Forum, 28(1): 10-29 13. Zuboff, Shoshana (2019). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. New York: Public Affairs.
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	Measurement and evaluation are carried out according to the principles of Bursa Uludağ University Associate Degree and Undergraduate Education and Training Regulation.
Information

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	10	140
Homeworks, Performances	0	0	0
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	1	1	1
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	1	1
Total WorkLoad			184
Total workload/ 30 hr			6,13
ECTS Credit of the Course			6

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

	PQ3	PQ4	PQ5	PQ6	PQ8	PQ9
LO1	0	1	0	4	0	4
LO2	0	2	0	4	0	4
LO3	1	2	0	4	0	4
LO4	0	2	0	4	0	4
LO5	3	0	4	0	4	0

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High