Content

Weeks	Topics
1. Weeks	Media, Digitalization, Culture, Approaches in Media Theories, Social Movement, Echo Chamber, Filter Bubble, Web 2.0.
2. Weeks	Social Media and Digitalization Concept; Social Media Usage Rates and Global Village Concept; Social Media and Social Movements; Media Theories; Political Economy of Social Media.
3. Weeks	New Social Media Field: Technology and Communication; Concepts and Approaches; Technological Developments, Capitalism and Social Change; Relationship between Society and Technology, New Social Media Field; New Communication Technologies and Virtual Society.
4. Weeks	The Case of Privacy in Traditional Societies; The Modern Period and the Transformation of Privacy; The Post-Modern Era: Digitization, Surveillance, and the Violation of Privacy.
5. Weeks	Techno-Social Life, Social Media and New Social Relations: Virtual Communities or Online/Digital Communities, Interactive (Mass) Communication, Network Individualization and Mass Self Communication, Technological Convergence or Media Convergence; Social and Individual Effects of Social Media, Social Networks or Social Media.
6. Weeks	Social Networks and Democracy: Opportunities, Threats and Dangers, Participatory Culture, Digital Reflection of Inequality or Digital Inequality, Digital Media and Social Networks: Possibilities and Dangers, Cyber Balkanization, Big Data, Algorithms and Surveillance Capitalism.
7. Weeks	Mid-Term
8. Weeks	Internet and Social Media as a New Area of Crime: Internet Technologies and the Rise of New Crimes, Social Media and the Changing Nature of Crime; Violations of Private Life in Social Media and Solutions; Social Media, Cyberbullying and Various Online Aggressions.
9. Weeks	Social Media, Hate Speech and Hate Crimes; Social Media and Cyber Crime Networks; The Use of Social Media as a Preventive Crime Area.
10. Weeks	The Phenomenon of Popular Culture in Today's World: The Birth and Development of Popular Culture; Concept of Identity in the Digital Age: Identity Construction in Social Media, Identity Formation in Network Society, Individual's Position in Culture Industry; Factors Affecting the Formation of Identity and Self in Social Media: The Case of Hedonism in Social Media.
11. Weeks	Risk Society; Social Media and Risk Society: Surveillance/Surveillance in Social Media, Digital Footprint, Panopticon.
12. Weeks	Social Media Concept, Usage and Industry: Characteristics of Social Media Concept, Social Media Literacy, Social Media Usage in Turkey, Social Media Industry in Turkey; Parties in Social Media: Social Media Opponents (Critical-Opposites), Social Media and Socialization Problems, Social Silence Spiral, Identity Search and Identity Confusion in Social Media, Social Media and Unethical Behaviors, Social Media and Language Use.
13. Weeks	Opportunities and Risks in Social Media: Communication and Communication in Social Media, Social Media and Economy, Social Media and Social Belonging, Perception Management in Social Media, Social Media and New Generation Perception Management, Social Media Aggression.
14. Weeks	Final Exam