TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Master's Degree With Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY	1
SEMESTER	Second Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Professor Nihan Gider Işıkman
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) know the general characteristics of video activism. 2) know the production process with structural and technical aspects. 3) carry a critical approach to video activism in the framework of theoretical knowledge.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	Video activism is to to carry the unseen images and unheard voices of unknown stories to the public domain that can?t find place in the main stream media, with the possibility of todays digital audio and video technology. In this course, video activism will be covered thourgh the concepts like; video as a political tool, reality and the recorded reality, presentation and re-presentation, surveillance cultur, power of the image and its evidentiality. Video activism will be analyzed through samples of participatory video works, guerrilla televisions, new media applications etc. to better understand its structure and funtioning.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week What is video activism? 2nd Week Historical development 3rd Week Narrative technics; video activim and documentary, journalism, activism, art 4th Week Video activist production; basic shooting technics 5th Week Video activist production; sound 6th Week Video activist production; editing 7th Week Video activist production; distribution, alternative media, videosharing, digital broadcasting,videoarchives,guerrilla tv 8th Week Mid-Term 9th Week Video activist production; ethical and legal issues 10th Week Video as an political tool; power of the image and its evidentiality 11th Week Video as an political tool; reality, recording the reality, presentation and re-presentation 12th Week Video as an political tool; surveillance culture, digital surveillance, protection of personal data 13th Week Samples from the World. 14th Week Samples from Turkey.
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Giovanni Sartori. Görmenin İktidarı: Homo Videns Gören İnsan. Umut Tümay Aslan. Görsel Olanı Okumak: Eleştirel Görsel Okur-Yazarlık. Anthony Giddens. Modernliğin Sonuçları. Korkmaz Alemdar. Öteki Kuram, İrfan Erdoğan. Louis Althusser. İdeoloji ve Devletin İdeolojik Aygıtları. Türk Film Araştırmalarında Yeni Yönelimler-8, Sinema ve Politika Michael Ryan, Douglas Kellner. Politik Kamera. Jodi Nelson. Social Media as a Filmmaking Narrative Tool. Thomas Harding. The Video Activist Handbook. Sam Gregory. Değiştirmek İçin Video. Megan Boler. Digital Media and Democracy. Paolo Gerbaudo. Tweetler ve Sokaklar, Sosyal Medya ve Günümüzün Eylemciliği. Dean Wilson, Tanya Serisier. Video Activism and the Ambiguities of Counter-Surveillance. Kjerstin Thorson. Youtube and Proposition.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Practice
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 40 Total(%) 40 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 40 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 60 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No