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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course To educate prospective teachers about the general use of media and to raise media awareness among their students: Information literacy; conscious use of the internet and social media; effects of social media on individuals; information dissemination and deception power; news dissemination power; media and perception management; legal rights and responsibilities for the media and the Internet; Copyright; the right to personality; information privacy; violation of confidentiality; language use in the media; analysis of value and quality of news; popular culture; male and female roles in the media; consumer culture and advertising; stereotyping in the media.
Course Content Information literacy; conscious use of the internet and social media; effects of social media on individuals; information dissemination and deception power; news dissemination power; media and perception management; legal rights and responsibilities for the media and the Internet; Copyright; the right to personality; information privacy; violation of confidentiality; language use in the media; analysis of value and quality of news; popular culture; male and female roles in the media; consumer culture and advertising; stereotyping in the media.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introducing media literacy
2Analyzing the Turkish institutes involving media literacy
3Media Literacy in Turkey and the world
4Media literacy models and analyzing techniques
5Media literacy models and analyzing techniques
6Digital games and syber bullying
7Assessing the filtering systems and the safety of the data
8Values, ethics, and the Internet
9Mid-term
10Studies on media literacy
11The curriculum of the media literacy course
12The curriculum of the media literacy course (Analyzing the syllabus prepared by MEB)
13Educating the parents as media literates
14Revision

Resources

Potter, W. J. 2013. Media Literacy, 6th edn. Los Angeles: SAGE.