GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS/1360062

Course Title:	SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Credits	3	ECTS	7.5
Semester	1	Compulsory/Elective	Elective

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Associate Professor Gülcan Işık

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/gulcanisik

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

gulcanisik@gazi.edu.tr

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

Better analyze the social life and new actors.
Learn the new world order and its implementers.
Analysis the national and international social movement examples, thus learn the last position of the protest movements.
Being informed about the subjects within theory and implementation point such as; What is social movement? When did it emerge? In which aspects does i
Get the information about the current media implementations in detail and theoretically.
Understand and analyze the relations between media and social movements.
Having done the content analysis of the social media styles in media, analyze the connectedness relation of the two concepts.
Provide the relations among the fields by making the example analysis related with social movements in different fields but again with the same commun

-- MODE OF DELIVERY

The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face

-- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES

There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.

-- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS

There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.

--COURSE CONTENT
1. Week	Introduce the theories, reason of the social movements, through the question: What is social movement?
2. Week	After the explanation of identification, features, types, etc. Of the social movements, analysis the “Crowd Approach” of Le Bon.
3. Week	Explanation the tenets of the rationalist ecol and mass paradigm.
4. Week	Explain the radical democracy theories and types of social movements.
5. Week	Explain the “Resource Mobilization Theory”, the first of the social movement theories.
6. Week	Explain tha “New Social Movement Theory”, the second of the social movement theories and the explanatory of the contemporary social movements.
7. Week	Explain the reasons, features, types, values, etc., which put forth the “New Social Movements”.
8. Week	Explain the alternative media and social media through the dimension of identification and approach.
9. Week	Explain the Connectedness Relation between social movements and media.
10. Week	Explain the relations between internet, one of the new media environments and social movement.
11. Week	Analysis a social movement in internet media.
12. Week	Analysis the relations between different media means and social movement and examples.
13. Week	Having being searched by the students, presentation of the analysis of the examples related with the relations between social movements and media.
14. Week	Having being searched by the students, presentation of the analysis of the examples related with the relations between social movements and media.
15. Week	Having being searched by the students, presentation of the analysis of the examples related with the relations between social movements and media.
16. Week	Having being searched by the students, presentation of the analysis of the examples related with the relations between social movements and media.

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

1. Social Movements from Virtual-Street (Gülcan Işık) 2. Social Movements: Theoretical and practice analysis and reflections from Politics to Literature, art to cinema, media to social perception (Ed.Gülcan Işık) 3. Social Movements (Charles Tilly) 4. Social Movements:Theoretical and practice analysis (Y.Doğan Çetinkaya) 5. Social Movements (Kenan Çayır)

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, Question & Answer, Demonstration, Drill - Practise

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

Not Applicable

-- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

	Quantity	Percentage
Mid-terms	1	40
Assignment	0	0
Exercises	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade		40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade		60

-- WORKLOAD

Efficiency	Total Week Count	Weekly Duration (in hour)	Total Workload in Semester
Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week	14	3	42
Practising Hours of Course Per Week	0	0	0
Reading	16	4	64
Searching in Internet and Library	16	4	64
Designing and Applying Materials	0	0	0
Preparing Reports	0	0	0
Preparing Presentation	1	2	2
Presentation	16	1	16
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	1	2	2
Final and Studying for Final	1	2	2
Other	0	0	0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			192
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.68
ECTS:			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

NO	PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES	1	2	3	4	5
1	Realises the interdisciplinary nature of communication science.					X
2	Defines fundamental issues related to the field of Public Relations and their cause-effect relationships.					X
3	Evaluates the expertise level theoretical, methodological and practical knowledge in the field of Public Relations.					X
4	Uses theory in the field of Public Relations, combining with quantitative and qualitative research methods, in advanced level.					X
5	Forms information about the field of journalism analytically and systematically.					X
6	Conducts a scientific study in the field of Public Relations, by taking responsibility individually and in-group.					X
7	Determines a problem in the field of Public Relations.					X
8	Collects data about the research problem.					X
9	Draw conclusions from the data obtained.					X
10	Distinguishs basic approaches and methods in the field of Public Relations.					X
11	Evaluates all available resources, by doing literature research in order to access information.					X
12	Evaluates current theoretical and methodological developments in the field of Public Relations, and transfers them to academic studies.					X
13	Collects data related to the field of Public Relations and integrates them with social, scientific, cultural and ethical values.					X
14	Uses knowledge and skills which is acquired in the field of Public Relations to contribute academic and social knowledge.					X

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