ISTANBUL OKAN UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE / COURSE CATALOGUE
| Public Relations and Advertising | |||||
| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
General course introduction information
| Course Code: | HRE204 | ||||||||
| Course Name: | Social Media | ||||||||
| Course Semester: | Spring | ||||||||
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| Language of instruction: | TR | ||||||||
| Course Requisites: | |||||||||
| Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||||||
| Type of course: | Compulsory | ||||||||
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| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face | ||||||||
| Course Coordinator : | Öğr.Gör. GÜLLÜ DOĞA DAĞDEVİREN | ||||||||
| Course Lecturer(s): |
Öğr.Gör. GÜLLÜ DOĞA DAĞDEVİREN |
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Course Objective and Content
| Course Objectives: | The purpose of this course is to prepare students to develop their communication skills in the new form of digital environment. Students who attend the course are aimed to have the ability to explain aspects of social media and to analyze the cases and potential communication crisis and to find creative solutions for new forms of effective communication in the social plateau of this emerging digital environment. |
| Course Content: | Culture and Social Media. Privacy and Surveillance .Law and Ethics in Social Media. Identity and Reputation in social media. Social Networking and Social Capital. Technological Convergence and the rise of mobile technology. Measuring, Monitoring and analyzing social media trends and impact. Crowd sourcing and the news. Social Media and organizations. Social media and government/diplomacy. Social media and activism. |
Learning Outcomes
The students who have succeeded in this course;
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Lesson Plan
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | • Identify the cultural impacts of social media and its development through time. • Describe the process of digital media’s use by social purposes. • Describe and recognize the cultural needs and transformation depending on social media. • Describe the digital environment and list the usage purposes by people. | Homework: assigned reading for the next class session-Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Edition: 1st - First Section |
| 2) | • Describe how companies use people’s social media data • Identify social media platforms and compare and contrast their privacy settings • Analyze privacy as a luxurious commodity | Homework: assigned reading for the next class session -Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Edition: 1st - Second Section |
| 3) | • Describe bloggers’ and content providers’ legal obligation • Analyze defamation cases in twitter • Explain and discuss ethical communication codes in internet | Homework: assigned reading for the next class session- Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Edition: 1st – Third Section |
| 4) | • Discuss the web and the end of forgetting due to immortal data in it • Analyze public displays of important figures in Turkey • Demonstrate fake reviews in various social media platforms • Evaluate self presentation on facebook | Homework: assigned reading for the next class session- Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Edition: 1st |
| 5) | • Recognize the definition and history of social networking sites • Analyzing the power of social capital • Arguing on social capital and news media • Evaluating the social affordances for networked individualism | Homework: assigned reading for the next class session- Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Edition: 1st |
| 6) | • Explain the difference between men and women regarding social networking • Present augmented reality demos • Represent the combining of foursquare and google maps | Homework: assigned reading for the next class session- Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Edition: 1st |
| 7) | MIDTERM EXAM | |
| 8) | • Identify google as a social media company • Name word of mouse marketing previously word of mouth marketing in the traditional media • Explain social crisis in social media with a wide impact such as h1n1 virus in 2009 • Describe how to calculate ROI in social media • Identify SEO for communicators | Homework: assigned reading for the next class session- Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Edition: 1st |
| 9) | • Analyze how facts backfire • Recognize the participatory news consumer • Determine crowd sourcing and sentiment analysis of twitter • Demonstrate and explain examples of citizen journalism | Homework: assigned reading for the next class session- Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Edition: 1st |
| 10) | • List the companies investing on social websites • Criticize and evaluate employers who block social media access • Address the digital divide within the organizations | Homework: assigned reading for the next class session- Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Edition: 1st |
| 11) | • Identify government 2.0 in context • Determine censorship in social media, list the reasons and find solutions for a freer social media environment • Show the site twiplomacy.com for a resolving the content and wording of various politicians twits • Underline presidential selections and the power of social media, present Trump's selection as a case study. | Homework: assigned reading for the next class session- Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Edition: 1st |
| 12) | • Restate transmedia activism network • Select brands promoting social change through social media • Present the predictions of revolution in twitter • Identify social activism at the click of a like button | Homework: assigned reading for the next class session- Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Edition: 1st |
| 13) | Making Presentation | |
| 14) | Discussion and Analysis of the examples raised in class. | Homework: assigned reading for the next class session- Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Edition: 1st |
| 15) | • Technological Convergence and the rise of mobile technology -Critical Thinking and Discussion | Homework: assigned reading for the next class session- Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Edition: 1st |
| 16) | Final Exam | Final Exam |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Edition: 1st Nancy Baym Polity Press |Published: June 21, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-0745643328 |
| References: | Duggan, Maeve, et al. "Social media update 2014." Pew research center 19 (2015). |
Course-Program Learning Outcome Relationship
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| 1) 1. Comprehending theories of interpersonal communication, 2. Know the basic concepts and practices of public relations and advertising, | ||||||
| 2) 1. Understanding the basic principles and principles of communication and developing a point of view in this direction, 2. Be able to understand and interpret theoretical approaches in the field of communication, 3. Mass communicaiton theories and their comprehension and discussion to relation between the activities of professional communicators, 4. Use of information related to the fields of communication science, business management, marketing, sociology, organizational behavior, economics, political science, law, scientific research and cultural studies into public relations and advertising discipline, 5. Knowing all elements of marketing communication; strategy development, research, planning and application in issues advertisement, public relations, sales, direct marketing and e-communication, 6. Data compilation, application, analysis and interpretation of results, 7. Apply to the field and solve problems of basic behavioral sciences, 8. Ability to plan, define, model and solve related to public relations campaigns, 9. Understanding the interaction between public relations and management which is a business function, 10. Necessary research for a successful public relations application, definition of objectives, identifying target groups and corresponding messages to these, choosing the right councils and evaluating the results, 11. Related to advertising campaigns planning, definition, modelling and ability to solve, 12. Acquire and use managerial skills in the advertising sector, 13. Media research, planning and purchasing knowledge and skills, 14. Design and implement to the advertisement materials for various advertisement channels | ||||||
| 3) 1. Make active presentations using appropriate announcement texts and visual aids for speeches and meetings; be able to express oneself and present a project, 2. Working as a team member and taking responsibility, 3. Resolve possible crises in institutions by assessing political, economic and technological all developments that will affect the field of public relations and to produce parallel strategies to the new situation, 4. Recognizing, understanding and designing elements of successful corporate communication, 5. Supply the stated or felt requirements, public relations services development in accordance with accepted professional standards, 6. Apply creative thinking methods and techniques, | ||||||
| 4) 1. Comprehending media literacy skills in the news taking process, 2. Comprehension of conceptual connections between public relations, advertising and politics, 3. Having knowledge and interpretation about the periodical processes of advertising, 4. Identify market research required for advertisement implementations and be able to evaluate in terms of advertising, | ||||||
| 5) 1. Ability to follow the development of education, science and technology and to recognize and describe the interaction of these elements with communication processes, 2. Applying to public relations, advertising and communication fields following new methods and technologies, 3. To use information communication technologies strategically within advertising and marketing, 4. To be able to comprehend and use contemporary techniques and software in the field of visual design, 5. To be able to follow national and international the contemporary problems, threads in the field of advertising, 6. To create a true dialectic mental, psychological and moral conditions with the Public Relations practices and acknowledging that the parties have the right to disclose their own situation and views, 7. Take care of the truth in Public Relations practices, to disseminate of information that is not based on sustainable and preconceived facts, 8. In Public Relations messages prepared for the promotion of products with regard to young people and children, they will damage their trust feelings, taking care to avoid no content that will affect psychological and physical weaknesses, 9. When practicing their profession, take care to ensure fair representation of the views of all interested parties, 10. Respecting the principle of confidentiality of confidential information that can be obtained by professions, 11. Pay attention to the fact that communication by their profession is based on open, correct, bi-directional and fully informed. 12. Where it is necessary to compete in a personal or institutional level, disuses the personal / institutional links that would unfairly affect competition; secondary undertaken tasks etc. as it will serve this purpose, 13. To prevent discrimination and promote the development of positive discrimination in intra-agency communication, 14. Supporting precautionary approaches to environmental problems in the business world, 15. To support all kinds of activities and formation that will increase environmental responsibility, 16. To support the development and diffusion of environmental friendly technologies, | ||||||
| 6) 1. Understand social organizations and institutions, family, religious institutions and their relationship with communication, 2. Carry out public relations and advertising practices based on a common and broad knowledge base, academic studies, researchs, ethical principles and performance auditing, 3. To know and understand the quality concept in public relations and advertisement, 4. In Turkey and in the world of brand management strategy evaluation, implement brand strategies and analyze various campaigns, 5. Targeting to receive a quality certificate, performance audit and to apply continuously systems to improve the quality, 6. Applying the Public Relations profession not only to the institution but also to oversee the benefit of collecting, 7. Identify messages that are appropriate for the target audience in the advertisement and choosing the right councils and evaluating the results, 8. To be able to interpret legal regulations intented for communication and advertisement field, 9. To recognize the basic principles of concord, manage the processes of concord or to work get a job in these processes, 10. Recognition of ethical principles in the International Advertising Practice Guidelines; in this respect, advertising applications integrity, honesty, social responsibility, protection of children and young people, respect for personal rights, sensitivity to health and environment, to be able to evaluate in terms of subjects such as the protection of the consumer, 11. To design, plan, implement and evaluate communication activities with the belief that all individuals should benefit from the rights arising from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 12. Protecting and respecting human dignity in communication activities, ensuring that everyone has their own judgment, 13. Under all conditions, in public relations practies, to behove in shape of protecting mutuall interests are served both by this assocation and by this assocation of public societies, 14. Performing public relations and advertising profession so as not to damage the public interest, 15. Observing that the communication they establish by aiming to create mutual understanding during their professional activities is not harmful attribution to the cultural values and beliefs of society in terms of both legal and ethical, 16. Acting in harmony with articles the Idea and Artworks Law during the works, 17. Do not accept tasks that are contrary to the principles of professional ethics, 18. Work to protect and upgrade the reputation and prestige of the profession, 19. Do not be in comments and behaviors that would damage the reputation of your colleagues, 20. Respect for the Press Professional Principles with the freedom of the media to receive information and to inform the public, 21. The blogs, forums, video and photo sharing sites and similiar social media tools are enriching in the sense of changing and reflecting public opinion therefore in those channels professional activities the identity of the representatives in these meetings in terms of transparency principle, 22. Do not mislead public opinion or its representatives, 23. Do not use blackmail, bribe and repression, 24. As a public relations expert, do not sign a contract with a client or employer that guarantees quantitative results, 25. Not to be included in the initiatives and commitments in feature that are contradictory to social rules, dishonest, damage human dignity and character, 26. To promote and respect human rights declared in the business world, 27. Not being complicit of human rights violations in the business world, 28. To oppose all kinds of child labor, 29. Fighting corruption in the business world, 30. To struggle with corruption in the business world, 31. To carry out professional practices in order to not violate the ethical principles in purview public relations and advertising. | ||||||
Course - Learning Outcome Relationship
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | 1. Comprehending theories of interpersonal communication, 2. Know the basic concepts and practices of public relations and advertising, | 3 |
| 2) | 1. Understanding the basic principles and principles of communication and developing a point of view in this direction, 2. Be able to understand and interpret theoretical approaches in the field of communication, 3. Mass communicaiton theories and their comprehension and discussion to relation between the activities of professional communicators, 4. Use of information related to the fields of communication science, business management, marketing, sociology, organizational behavior, economics, political science, law, scientific research and cultural studies into public relations and advertising discipline, 5. Knowing all elements of marketing communication; strategy development, research, planning and application in issues advertisement, public relations, sales, direct marketing and e-communication, 6. Data compilation, application, analysis and interpretation of results, 7. Apply to the field and solve problems of basic behavioral sciences, 8. Ability to plan, define, model and solve related to public relations campaigns, 9. Understanding the interaction between public relations and management which is a business function, 10. Necessary research for a successful public relations application, definition of objectives, identifying target groups and corresponding messages to these, choosing the right councils and evaluating the results, 11. Related to advertising campaigns planning, definition, modelling and ability to solve, 12. Acquire and use managerial skills in the advertising sector, 13. Media research, planning and purchasing knowledge and skills, 14. Design and implement to the advertisement materials for various advertisement channels | 4 |
| 3) | 1. Make active presentations using appropriate announcement texts and visual aids for speeches and meetings; be able to express oneself and present a project, 2. Working as a team member and taking responsibility, 3. Resolve possible crises in institutions by assessing political, economic and technological all developments that will affect the field of public relations and to produce parallel strategies to the new situation, 4. Recognizing, understanding and designing elements of successful corporate communication, 5. Supply the stated or felt requirements, public relations services development in accordance with accepted professional standards, 6. Apply creative thinking methods and techniques, | 4 |
| 4) | 1. Comprehending media literacy skills in the news taking process, 2. Comprehension of conceptual connections between public relations, advertising and politics, 3. Having knowledge and interpretation about the periodical processes of advertising, 4. Identify market research required for advertisement implementations and be able to evaluate in terms of advertising, | 5 |
| 5) | 1. Ability to follow the development of education, science and technology and to recognize and describe the interaction of these elements with communication processes, 2. Applying to public relations, advertising and communication fields following new methods and technologies, 3. To use information communication technologies strategically within advertising and marketing, 4. To be able to comprehend and use contemporary techniques and software in the field of visual design, 5. To be able to follow national and international the contemporary problems, threads in the field of advertising, 6. To create a true dialectic mental, psychological and moral conditions with the Public Relations practices and acknowledging that the parties have the right to disclose their own situation and views, 7. Take care of the truth in Public Relations practices, to disseminate of information that is not based on sustainable and preconceived facts, 8. In Public Relations messages prepared for the promotion of products with regard to young people and children, they will damage their trust feelings, taking care to avoid no content that will affect psychological and physical weaknesses, 9. When practicing their profession, take care to ensure fair representation of the views of all interested parties, 10. Respecting the principle of confidentiality of confidential information that can be obtained by professions, 11. Pay attention to the fact that communication by their profession is based on open, correct, bi-directional and fully informed. 12. Where it is necessary to compete in a personal or institutional level, disuses the personal / institutional links that would unfairly affect competition; secondary undertaken tasks etc. as it will serve this purpose, 13. To prevent discrimination and promote the development of positive discrimination in intra-agency communication, 14. Supporting precautionary approaches to environmental problems in the business world, 15. To support all kinds of activities and formation that will increase environmental responsibility, 16. To support the development and diffusion of environmental friendly technologies, | 4 |
| 6) | 1. Understand social organizations and institutions, family, religious institutions and their relationship with communication, 2. Carry out public relations and advertising practices based on a common and broad knowledge base, academic studies, researchs, ethical principles and performance auditing, 3. To know and understand the quality concept in public relations and advertisement, 4. In Turkey and in the world of brand management strategy evaluation, implement brand strategies and analyze various campaigns, 5. Targeting to receive a quality certificate, performance audit and to apply continuously systems to improve the quality, 6. Applying the Public Relations profession not only to the institution but also to oversee the benefit of collecting, 7. Identify messages that are appropriate for the target audience in the advertisement and choosing the right councils and evaluating the results, 8. To be able to interpret legal regulations intented for communication and advertisement field, 9. To recognize the basic principles of concord, manage the processes of concord or to work get a job in these processes, 10. Recognition of ethical principles in the International Advertising Practice Guidelines; in this respect, advertising applications integrity, honesty, social responsibility, protection of children and young people, respect for personal rights, sensitivity to health and environment, to be able to evaluate in terms of subjects such as the protection of the consumer, 11. To design, plan, implement and evaluate communication activities with the belief that all individuals should benefit from the rights arising from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 12. Protecting and respecting human dignity in communication activities, ensuring that everyone has their own judgment, 13. Under all conditions, in public relations practies, to behove in shape of protecting mutuall interests are served both by this assocation and by this assocation of public societies, 14. Performing public relations and advertising profession so as not to damage the public interest, 15. Observing that the communication they establish by aiming to create mutual understanding during their professional activities is not harmful attribution to the cultural values and beliefs of society in terms of both legal and ethical, 16. Acting in harmony with articles the Idea and Artworks Law during the works, 17. Do not accept tasks that are contrary to the principles of professional ethics, 18. Work to protect and upgrade the reputation and prestige of the profession, 19. Do not be in comments and behaviors that would damage the reputation of your colleagues, 20. Respect for the Press Professional Principles with the freedom of the media to receive information and to inform the public, 21. The blogs, forums, video and photo sharing sites and similiar social media tools are enriching in the sense of changing and reflecting public opinion therefore in those channels professional activities the identity of the representatives in these meetings in terms of transparency principle, 22. Do not mislead public opinion or its representatives, 23. Do not use blackmail, bribe and repression, 24. As a public relations expert, do not sign a contract with a client or employer that guarantees quantitative results, 25. Not to be included in the initiatives and commitments in feature that are contradictory to social rules, dishonest, damage human dignity and character, 26. To promote and respect human rights declared in the business world, 27. Not being complicit of human rights violations in the business world, 28. To oppose all kinds of child labor, 29. Fighting corruption in the business world, 30. To struggle with corruption in the business world, 31. To carry out professional practices in order to not violate the ethical principles in purview public relations and advertising. | 4 |
Learning Activity and Teaching Methods
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Assessment & Grading Methods and Criteria
| Written Exam (Open-ended questions, multiple choice, true-false, matching, fill in the blanks, sequencing) | |
| Presentation |
Assessment & Grading
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Midterms | 1 | % 40 |
| Final | 1 | % 60 |
| total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 40 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 60 | |
| total | % 100 | |
Workload and ECTS Credit Grading
| Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
| Course Hours | 16 | 48 |
| Midterms | 1 | 1 |
| Final | 1 | 1 |
| Total Workload | 50 | |