Week - 1 |
Introduction: General information about the definition, scope and functioning of the course. |
Week - 2 |
What is social media ?: Internet, World wide web (www), Web 1.0, Web 2.0 etc. |
Week - 3 |
New media and user-generated content: Scope and features of the concept of new media, differences from traditional media |
Week - 4 |
Social media applications: Social networks, blogs, wikis, forums and dictionaries. |
Week - 5 |
Journalism and social media: News sites, individual news blogs and corporate internet publishing. |
Week - 6 |
Corporate digital publishing and individual publishing on social media: blogger, vlogger, youtuber, podcaster et al. |
Week - 7 |
User- generated content / news production and social networks: facebook, twitter, periscope, snapchat, etc |
Week - 8 |
The problem of fake news and misinformation: the concept of post-truth. |
Week - 9 |
News verification applications and tools |
Week - 10 |
Development of fact-checking platforms in the world and Turkey |
Week - 11 |
Search engines and news: Google and its filters. |
Week - 12 |
New developments in journalism: Algorithm, artificial intelligence and Robot journalism studies, Data Journalism |
Week - 13 |
Student project presentations. |
Week - 14 |
Student project presentations. |