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  5. Debate on Digital Societies
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Last Updated: 30/09/2026

Code - Course Title Course Type Laboratory + Practice ECTS
SOS629 - Debate on Digital Societies I. SEMESTER 3 +0 7.5
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) PROF. DR. FUAT GÜLLÜPINAR
Mode of Delivery The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
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Prerequisites There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
Courses Recomended There are no recommend optional programme components.
Recommended Resources Cohen, N. S. (2015). Entrepreneurial journalism and theprecarious state of media work.South Atlantic Quarterly,114(3), 513-533.Zuboff, Shoshana. 2016. “Google as a Fortune Teller: The Secrets of SurveillanceCapitalism.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 5.http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/the-digital-debate/shoshanazuboff-secrets-of-surveillance-capitalism-14103616.html.Herring, S. C., & Kapidzic, S. (2015). Teens, gender, andself-presentation in social media. International encyclopedia ofsocial and behavioral sciences, Oxford: Elsevier.Sobieraj, S. (2018). Bitch, slut, skank, c***: Patternedresistance to women’s visibility in digital publics. Information, Communication & Society, 21(11), 1700-1714.Dreyfus, E. (2018, December 18). Twitter is indeed toxic for women. Amnesty Report. Weber, L. & Seetharaman, A. (2017). The worst job intechnology: Staring at human depravity to keep it off Facebook. Wall Street Journal OnlineHumphreys, L. (2018). Introduction and Chapter 3. InThe qualified self: Social media and the accounting of everyday life.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Gentile, J. (2013, July). “Romantic Deceit via Telegraph:How ‘catfishing’ worked in the 1880s.”The Atlantic Standage, T. (2013). History Retweets: How AncientRomans Created Social Media.Wall Street Journal Latour, B. (1992). Where are the Missing Masses? The Sociologyof a Few Mundane Artifacts. In W. E. Bijker & J. Law (Eds.),Shaping Technology / Building Society: Studies in SociotechnicalChange (pp. 225–258). Cambridge MA: The MIT Press. Availableas library e-book:https://proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/login?url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01128Winner, L. (1980) Do Artifacts Have Politics? Daedalus, Vol. 109,No. 1, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity?(Winter,1980), pp. 121-136http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652David, P. A. (1985). Clio and the Economics of QWERTY. TheAmerican Economic Review, 75, 332–337.Wajcman, J. (2010). Feminist theories of technology. CambridgeJournal of Economics, 34(1), 143–152.https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/ben057* Mars, R., & Greenspan, S. (2012, April 4). The Arsenal ofExclusion [podcast]. Retrieved August 22, 2017, fromhttp://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-51-the-arsenal-ofexclusion/
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Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 Digital Society; Basic Framework and Concepts
Week - 2 Theoretical Perspectives to Digital Society
Week - 3 Platforms of Social Media: Discussion of Public/private Sphere
Week - 4 Theories of Network Society
Week - 5 Digital Society and Transformation of Social Relations
Week - 6 Digital Games: Risks and Opportunities
Week - 7 Democracy, Public Spehere and Internet
Week - 8 Digital Society and Family
Week - 9 Digitalization, Privacy and Surveillence; Public Sphere, Democracy and Virtual Communities
Week - 10 Social media and Trolls; Hate Speech and Isolation
Week - 11 Digital Society and Industry 4.0: Quo Vadis Education?
Week - 12 Digital Labour and Industry 4.0
Week - 13 Children and Digitalization; Digital World and Transformed Forms of Addiction
Week - 14 Digitalization and Transformations of Crime: Cybercrime and Hackers

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Assessment Method and Passing Requirements
Quamtity Percentage (%)
1.Midterm Exam 1 40
Final Exam 1 60
Toplam (%) 100

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