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| Code | AS437 |
| Name | Data Journalism |
| Term | 2024-2025 Academic Year |
| Semester | 7. Semester |
| Duration (T+A) | 2-1 (T-A) (17 Week) |
| ECTS | 4 ECTS |
| National Credit | 2 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Lisans Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
| Catalog Information Coordinator | Doç. Dr. SEVDA ÜNAL |
| Course Instructor |
Doç. Dr. SEVDA ÜNAL
(A Group)
(Ins. in Charge)
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Course Goal / Objective
Students taking this course: Develop a critical perspective on data journalism, To learn the basic information about data collection and cleaning, Developing skills related to data analysis and interpretation, Learning visualization methods It is expected.
Course Content
The aim of Data Journalism course is to understand the basic data of this field: data acquisition, data collection, data classification, data analysis, practical and theoretical understanding of the data visualization process, and the open data relationship by using the right to information. Data journalism in the developing Internet world; To teach how online is developing as a result of computer-aided journalism and data-based journalism, as a future of journalism and how it plays a powerful role in news-transfer more effectively through online open sources, tools and techniques.
Course Precondition
There are no prerequisites for the course.
Resources
Lecture notes.
Notes
Online resources.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | To learn concepts related to data journalism, its history and tools with examples |
| LO02 | Data Journalism online use of the most appropriate tools, data sources and how to create data sets |
| LO03 | Analyze, visualize, interview data and conduct effective teamwork |
| LO04 | Be able to understand and use the usage of news and news in news centers and news |
| LO05 | Design basics, effective visual communication and data visualization, mapping studies |
| LO06 | To be able to understand and implement the process of data-based news |
| LO07 | To understand the relationship between Freedom to Information and Open Data and to verify digital content |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLO01 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Explains the basic concepts of the field, communication patterns, communication and cultural functions within the framework of communication as the basis of Communication Studies. | |
| PLO02 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Recognizes the national and global communication systems, the basic concepts, theories and principles. | |
| PLO03 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Holds information related to the fields as a basis; Instrumental Social Communications (Radio, TV, Film, Advertising, Public Relations, Journalism) within a terminological frame (=teleological) (Public Sphere, Public Opinion, Cultural Production Areas, Citizen Participation, Popular Culture, etc.). | 2 |
| PLO04 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Has the knowledge and skills to use and/or explain how communication works in every aspect in different cultures, from individual to group, mass, institutional communication within the major tools of communication. | |
| PLO05 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Distinguishes non-scientific knowledge from the scientific method, and follows technological innovations in the field with the updated work. | 3 |
| PLO06 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | From an interdisciplinary perspective, acknowledged the concept of communication to synthesize information that Communication Studies has background from different areas like, Sociology, History, Psychology, Linguistics, Political Sciences, Anthropology and so on. | |
| PLO07 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Produces thoughts and knowledge to understand and solve communication problems encountered in size of individual to global communications. | |
| PLO08 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | As a requirement of competence to communicate effectively, has the ability to express himself/herself up, facing the people with correct understanding in environments in which he/she is capable of empathy sets. | |
| PLO09 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Organizes and/or actively participates in the social, artistic and cultural activities, reports events. | |
| PLO10 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Follows the local, national and international events with critical comments. | 4 |
| PLO11 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Is able to work in the group as well as having the competence of the individual work | 4 |
| PLO12 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Develops a sense of responsibility towards the society, as individuals, develops projects for the benefit of the community, leadership and entrepreneurial skills of intellectual exhibitions. | |
| PLO13 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Improves constantly himself/herself, as well as being open to professional developments in scientific, social, cultural and artistic fields according to his/her interests and abilities, identifying needs of learning | |
| PLO14 | Yetkinlikler - Öğrenme Yetkinliği | Has rational thinking skills, creative thinking in written, oral, visual and so on, as well as using the methods and strategies, for the purpose of communicating thoughts. | |
| PLO15 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Has at least one foreign language in the European Language Portfolio (B) with the level of using the information in track and communicate with colleagues abroad. | |
| PLO16 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | While accessing all kinds of information, using and transmitting of all other thoughts on the process and in all other practices of the profession strives to comply with ethical requirements and endeavors. | |
| PLO17 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Has basic skills and use these skills for mediating to the general population methods in the specific praxis areas, such as media literacy, | |
| PLO18 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Is competent to use required level of knowledge of the area and use of computer software as well as all means of communication (body language, verbal and nonverbal communication, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, cinema, internet and other information / communication technologies, and mass media) | 5 |
| PLO19 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Identifies learning needs and future career plan and perform accordingly. | |
| PLO20 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Has the knowledge of the legal framework related to the field. |
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Definition of Data Journalism | Discussion | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım |
| 2 | How to find data, how to find a story with data, how to clean data, how to make sense of data I | Lecture and application | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 3 | Data Scraping - Scraping data from websites as a data source II | Lecture and application | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 4 | Introduction to data visualization tools (open source) data visualization: which chart/tool is appropriate WITH which topic/project | Lecture and application | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 5 | Basic statistics and working practices in excel | Lecture and application | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 6 | Right to Information Request, Digital Content Verification | Lecture and application | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 7 | Open Data and Ethics | Lecture and application | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
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| 9 | Resources and Techniques | Lecture and application | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 10 | Social Media Data Analysis / Usage | Lecture and application | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 11 | Machine Readability of Open Data | Lecture and application | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 12 | Data Research Techniques | Lecture and application | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 13 | Group Project I | Lecture and application | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 14 | Group Project II | Lecture and application | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 15 | Group Project III | Lecture and application | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 16 | Term Exams | Application | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Proje / Tasarım |
| 17 | Term Exams | Application | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Proje / Tasarım |
Student Workload - ECTS
| Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Workload (Hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Related Works | |||
| Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 18 | 18 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 111 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 4,44 | ||
| ECTS | 4 ECTS | ||