Akademik Dersler - İçerik

Weeks	Topics
Week - 1	Introduction: General information about the course description, scope and functioning.
Week - 2	What is the "technology"?
Week - 3	Basic concepts and approaches regarding the relationship between communication, technology and society: Technological determinism, the social shaping of technology, social construction of technology, symptomatic technology approach.
Week - 4	Historical development of communication technologies I: The emergence of telegraph and modern communication networks, Industrial Revolution, telegraph and telephone in the Ottoman Empire.
Week - 5	Historical development of communication technologies II: Development of wireless communication technologies after telegraph and telephone; radio and television broadcasting, today's modern communication technologies and the Internet.
Week - 6	Changing the traditional communication infrastructure: Digitization and the importance of interaction, convergence.
Week - 7	Mainstream approaches to communication technologies: Network society, global village, advanced industrial society, etc.
Week - 8	Critical approaches to communication technologies: Media imperialism, cultural imperialism, dependency theories, desktop colonialism approach.
Week - 9	Information society theories.
Week - 10	Criticisms of information society theories: Knowledge gap approach, knowledge rich and lack of knowledge concepts, surveillance and control society
Week - 11	Information society policies I: International policies regarding the regulation of information and communication infrastructure
Week - 12	Information society policies II: National policies regarding the regulation of information and communication infrastructure.
Week - 13	New communication technologies and social inequality: Digital divide, digital gap
Week - 14	E-government, e-democracy and governance approach