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Week - 1 |
Introduction: General information about the definition, scope and functioning of the course. |
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Week - 2 |
Introduction to social media: Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, metaverse, etc. |
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Week - 3 |
New user-generated media: Social networks, blogs, wikis, forums and dictionaries... |
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Week - 4 |
User-generated content/news production and social networks: facebook, X, tiktok, whatsapp, snapchat, etc. |
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Week - 5 |
Corporate digital publishing and individual publishing on social media: Bloggers, vloggers, youtubers, etc. as news producers. |
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Week - 6 |
User-generated content and the problem of information disorder: Post-truth; fake news; deepfake; disinformation, misinformation, malinformation. |
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Week - 7 |
Search engines, social networks and news feed/flow: Algorithms and the filter bubble, the echo chamber problem. |
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Week - 8 |
What is fact-checking: The development of fact-checking platforms in the world and in Turkey. |
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Week - 9 |
Local and foreign news fact-checking applications and major web tools. |
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Week - 10 |
How social media platforms combat fake news |
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Week - 11 |
Basic principles of content and image verification for individual content consumers |
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Week - 12 |
Tips for spotting fake social media accounts: the concepts of bot, botnet, troll |
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Week - 13 |
Motivations to believe fake news and spread misinformation; back-fire effect |
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Week - 14 |
New approaches in journalism: Algorithms, artificial intelligence and robot journalism. |
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