
The Department of New Media and Communication is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines communication environments transformed by digitalization and their social, cultural, and economic impacts using scientific methods, integrating theoretical knowledge with practical application. This department reinterprets classical approaches in communication studies through digital media technologies to offer a holistic perspective on media production, consumption, and critique.Department of New
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Tuğçe Vurkıroğlu

Discursive expressions that aim to demean, otherize, and target individuals or groups based on their ethnic origin, religious belief, gender, language, or other identity characteristics are termed hate speech. This discourse, often infiltrating everyday life, is frequently reproduced without being noticed.Hate speech is a form of expression that embodies ideologies of otherization, demonization, and devaluation, typically emerging from power struggles or economic competition but gaining acceptan
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Elif Nur Çetinkaya

Slacktivism; a sociological concept that entered the literature alongside the widespread adoption of digital communication technologies and new media, referring to individuals expressing responses to social or political issues with minimal effort and cost, typically through digital platforms. Etymologically, it is derived from the combination of the English words “Slacker” (loafer, lazy person) and “Activism” (activism). In Turkish literature, this concept is commonly referred to as “lazy activi
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Ayşenur Mezralı

New media is a form of communication that emerged with the development of internet technology, significantly transforming traditional communication systems and becoming integrated into life through its digital structure. These new communication environments, alongside various communication techniques, have created a new social relationship system. This structure generated by new media has shaped a new form of culture known as digital culture or cyberculture. Digital culture defines the place tha
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Ahsen Karakaş

New media art is an artistic field in which digital technologies, interactive systems, the internet, artificial intelligence, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) are used as primary tools. Works in this field focus on viewer interaction and participation and often possess a dynamic, continuously evolving structure. At the foundation of new media art lies the conversion of information into a common computer format (zeros and ones). This digitization process enables all data to be pro
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Nursena Şahin