Akademik Dersler - İçerik

Weeks	Topics
Week - 1	Introduction and information about the course content
Week - 2	Concepts in mass communication and the functioning of the process: Sender (Source), Receiver (Target Audience), Message, Medium, Encoding, Coding, Transcoding, Feedback, Noise.
Week - 3	Critical Approaches to Mass Communication: Concepts of Opinion Leader and Threshold Guardian, Agenda Setting Theory, Spiral of Silence Theory.
Week - 4	Critical Approaches to Mass Communication: The Concept of Hegemony in Media and Ideological Power of Media, Manufacturing of Consent and Propaganda Theory in Media.
Week - 5	Critical Approaches to Mass Communication: Manipulation Power of Media, Misinformation and Disinformation.
Week - 6	The Effects of Technological Transformation on Mass Communication and Digital Media Concept, Development of the Internet and Components of Digital Media: Traditional Media and New Media Differences, Online Communication, New Media and Information Society, Social Media Platforms as a Democratic and New Public Space.
Week - 7	Midterm Exam
Week - 8	Terms and Concepts in New Media: Virtual Reality, Virtual Communities, Network Society, Social Media, Digital Activism, Sharing, Likes, Number of Followers, Social Media Phenomenon / Influencer, Troll, Hacker.
Week - 9	Content Creation in New Media: Citizen Journalism and Agenda Setting in New Media.
Week - 10	Possibilities and Risks of New Media to the User: Information Pollution in Social Media, Hate Speech in New Media, New Media and Privacy.
Week - 11	Security Threats and Precautions in Social Media: Cybercrime and Cyberbullying, Precautions for Privacy on the Web.
Week - 12	Definition and Importance of Media Literacy
Week - 13	Digital Literacy Components, Dijital Media Literacy and Critical Thinking.
Week - 14	Access to Reliable, Accurate and Current Information in Web Environment, Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy Relationship.