New Media
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

General course introduction information

Course Code:

YMD415

Course Name:

New Media in Cinema

Course Semester:

Spring

Course Credits:

Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
3	0	3	4

Language of instruction:

Course Requisites:

Does the Course Require Work Experience?:

Type of course:

Department Elective

Course Level:

Bachelor

TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:First Cycle

EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

Face to face

Course Coordinator :

Dr.Öğr.Üyesi SERRA ORKAN

Course Lecturer(s):

Öğr.Gör. ALTUĞ SAMİ İÇİLENSU
Dr.Öğr.Üyesi SERRA ORKAN

Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives:	Rapidly changing and widespread technologies have brought about fundamental changes in communication systems. The aim of this course is to analyze the effects of digital instruments added to the traditional media in the communication sector, especially in the fields of television and cinema, by criticizing the sample series and films.
Course Content:	Analyzing the differences of traditional media and new media, interactivity, postmodernism, active audience, multimedia, virtual reality (cyborg) digitalism, smilacrum.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;

Learning Outcomes

1 - Knowledge
Theoretical - Conceptual
1) To be able to follow the latest developments in the field of cinema and television from related sources, learning to use other disciplines in the field of cinema and new media., to enter the theoretical knowledge about the tools that will provide functional benefits.
2 - Skills
Cognitive - Practical
1) To be able to use the acquired theoretical and factual knowledge about cinema and new media in personal production, analyze and criticize existing series and films. To be able to interpret and evaluate media tools and works by using the knowledge and skills acquired in the field of cinema and new media and to be able to analyze the differences between the old and the new media.
3 - Competences
Communication and Social Competence
1) To gain awareness about the interdisciplinary structure of cinema and digital media and thus to develop a dynamic, flexible professional character that can communicate and move in various fields.
Learning Competence
1) To develop the habit of thinking critically in digital media and cinema and to understand the importance of learning in this sense and to develop the tendency to apply this approach.
Field Specific Competence
1) To understand the practices in the field of cinema and digital media as a creative process and / or a business process and to look at these processes from the cultural and historical perspectives.
Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility
1) To be able to develop the infrastructure for analysis and criticism independently of the subjects and works related to the field of cinema and new media.

Lesson Plan

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	What is New Media? What is Traditional Media?
2)	Photography and the perception of motion - The birth of cinema. (Silent film Period)	The Great Train Robbery E.S. Porter Trip to the Moon Lumiere Brothers first movies Edison First movies
3)	Classical cinema and experimental films.	The Birth of a Nation Battleship Potemkin
4)	Hollywood Film Industry - Linear fiction and blockbuster films	Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS6Vuy5dV1Q&list=PLAAeSTcB-Y1mObpE4LGUNZaI-Q6GYuUuw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr1NhBE20E4 Movie: Arka Pencere
5)	Technological and social changes and developments in production and post-production: cost and time acquisition. Neorealism in Italian and French.	’ Bisiklet Hırsızları’’ ‘’ Breathless’’
6)	Postmodernism- Industrial society, mechanization and human	Movie: Blade Runner, Time Machine
7)	Digital cinema and technological innovations: CGI, Motion picture, Greenbox	Book: Lev Manovich ‘’ The Language of New Media ‘’ Movie: Matrix Videos: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji3IDa0sewk https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KaEvW01-ZKg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3V8UZDcv9c8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mATrMse1GiE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OjibwJLFrUY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QbLMom6Qt0c
8)	Smilacrum: non-truthful copies: the reflection of Facebook profile creation on show art	Movie: Avatar / Jumanji/ Existanze
9)	Artificial life and virtual world	Black mirror
10)	Cyberspace: Space Age and Dystopia	Movie: Star Wars
11)	Scopophiliaca: visual pleasure, differences between active and passive viewer	Movie: The Clock / Videodrome
12)	Social memory and popular culture - social media influencers	Movie: Social Network
13)	Transmedia: examples of the spread of fictitious structures into many distribution channels	Movie: Superman
14)	Internet and present effects	Movie: Disconnect

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

Lev Monavich. ‘’ The Language of New Media ‘’
Stephen Keane .‘’ CineTech: Film, Convergence, and New Media ‘’
David A.Cook . ‘’ A History of Narrative Film ‘’

References:

Tony Feldman. ‘’ An Introduction to Digital Media ‘’
Nicholas Rombes. ‘’ Cinema in The Digital Age’’
Walter Benjamin. ‘’ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’’
George Simmel . ‘’ Metropol and the Mental Life’’
David A.Cook . ‘’ A History of Narrative Film ‘’
Stam, R. and T. Miller eds. Film and Theory: An Anthology. Blackwell, 2000.
Curran, J. and D. Morley. Media and Cultural Theory. Routledge, 2006.

Course-Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5	6
Program Outcomes
1) 1. Acquainting oneself with technologic developments which have effect on new media area. 2. Gaining the theoretical infrastructure controling the influence flow within social media, society and digital culture. 3. Implementing digital communication on productive and strategic projects by using the right applications. 4. Wining theoretical and factual infrastructure to use data which can reach the right information in an ethical way.
2) 1.Designing, strategizing and managing related processes as an active actor of the new media at the center of all transformations and changes, especially production, marketing, journalism, social relations. 2.Being able to comprehend the interdisciplinary structure of the new media and the tendency to work with traditional media such as newspapers, radio and TV, and to produce interactive content in this direction. 3.Generating a new generation of news in the context of news gathering and writing transformations; to be a new media correspondent, editor or producer in newspapers, radio or TV institutions carrying publishing activities on the Internet and mobile media. 4.Designing, producing and implementing content for public and private organizations with disciplines as public relations, trade, advertising for effective reach to target audience, productivity and competitive advantage. 5. Solving the crisis based new media at the institutions and to produce parallel strategies to the new situation. 6.Portal management, learning and implementation of stages in web design areas.
3) 1.Entrepreneurship that to be able to present thoughts and creativity in all new media platforms like web, newspaper, blog, e-commerce. 2.Informative, entertaining content production based on social existence, sharing and interaction in social media. 3.To be able to perform the profession as a team member and fulfill the responsibilities, while remaining committed to ethical values. 4.Paying attention to the fair representation of the views of all parties within the framework of accountability, equal approach to the parties and not misleading.
4) 1. Comprehension of media literacy skills in the process of news gathering. 2. Learning how to effectively use and develop new media platforms. 3. Comprehension of conceptual connections between media and politics 4. To be able to understand and question the basic principles of mass communication and the place and importance of mass communication. 5. Developing a perspective of being able to analyze and tired of economic politics, social, political and cultural influences of mass communication.
5) 1. communicating with digital agencies about new media projects in order to be a part of the solution. 2. Sharing the solution suggestions on communication area using qualitative and quantitative research. 3. Organizing and implementing projects and events for one'ssocial environment using the digital communication formats in a creative way.
6) 1. Understanding the basic principles and doctrines of communication and foprming a point of view. 2. Understanding and evaluating theoritical approach on communication. 3. Comprehension of criticism on media theories. 4. In Turkey and in the world assessing industry 4.0 strategies, Making the analysis of the practices. 5. Solving possible crises in the institutions by evaluating all technological, political and economic developments that will affect the new media field and producing parallel strategies to the new situation

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	1. Acquainting oneself with technologic developments which have effect on new media area. 2. Gaining the theoretical infrastructure controling the influence flow within social media, society and digital culture. 3. Implementing digital communication on productive and strategic projects by using the right applications. 4. Wining theoretical and factual infrastructure to use data which can reach the right information in an ethical way.
2)	1.Designing, strategizing and managing related processes as an active actor of the new media at the center of all transformations and changes, especially production, marketing, journalism, social relations. 2.Being able to comprehend the interdisciplinary structure of the new media and the tendency to work with traditional media such as newspapers, radio and TV, and to produce interactive content in this direction. 3.Generating a new generation of news in the context of news gathering and writing transformations; to be a new media correspondent, editor or producer in newspapers, radio or TV institutions carrying publishing activities on the Internet and mobile media. 4.Designing, producing and implementing content for public and private organizations with disciplines as public relations, trade, advertising for effective reach to target audience, productivity and competitive advantage. 5. Solving the crisis based new media at the institutions and to produce parallel strategies to the new situation. 6.Portal management, learning and implementation of stages in web design areas.
3)	1.Entrepreneurship that to be able to present thoughts and creativity in all new media platforms like web, newspaper, blog, e-commerce. 2.Informative, entertaining content production based on social existence, sharing and interaction in social media. 3.To be able to perform the profession as a team member and fulfill the responsibilities, while remaining committed to ethical values. 4.Paying attention to the fair representation of the views of all parties within the framework of accountability, equal approach to the parties and not misleading.
4)	1. Comprehension of media literacy skills in the process of news gathering. 2. Learning how to effectively use and develop new media platforms. 3. Comprehension of conceptual connections between media and politics 4. To be able to understand and question the basic principles of mass communication and the place and importance of mass communication. 5. Developing a perspective of being able to analyze and tired of economic politics, social, political and cultural influences of mass communication.
5)	1. communicating with digital agencies about new media projects in order to be a part of the solution. 2. Sharing the solution suggestions on communication area using qualitative and quantitative research. 3. Organizing and implementing projects and events for one'ssocial environment using the digital communication formats in a creative way.
6)	1. Understanding the basic principles and doctrines of communication and foprming a point of view. 2. Understanding and evaluating theoritical approach on communication. 3. Comprehension of criticism on media theories. 4. In Turkey and in the world assessing industry 4.0 strategies, Making the analysis of the practices. 5. Solving possible crises in the institutions by evaluating all technological, political and economic developments that will affect the new media field and producing parallel strategies to the new situation

Learning Activity and Teaching Methods

Field Study
Expression
Lesson
Group study and homework
Reading
Homework
Project preparation
Social Activities
Case Study
Web Based Learning

Assessment & Grading Methods and Criteria

Written Exam (Open-ended questions, multiple choice, true-false, matching, fill in the blanks, sequencing)
Homework
Group project
Presentation
Bilgisayar Destekli Sunum
Case study presentation

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Committee	42	% 0
Midterms	1	% 50
Final	1	% 50
total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 50
total		% 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Grading

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	16	48
Study Hours Out of Class	16	48
Midterms	1	3
Final	2	6
Total Workload		105