Weekly Press Release of Istanbul Gelisim University (January 24-28, 2022)

Abstract

While the Academic Member, Dr. Uğur Baloğlu, who is the Head of the Department of Television Journalism and Programming of the Faculty of Applied Sciences of Istanbul Gelişim University, emphasized the positive and negative aspects of the changing communicative language, he indicated that the lynch culture taking place among the negative aspects at the social media, of which effect has been witnessed by us especially in recent periods, came forth from the dark motives of the people. The rapidly rising digitalization brings forth mane changes along with it. Our habits for socialization and setting up communication undergo changes as well in integration with the world. According to the data of the TUIK 2020 (Turkish Statistical Institute), 54 millions of people have social media accounts in Turkey. Increasing requirement for socialization, continually changing agenda and communication languages of the people, who have hidden behind the secret usernames, have changed as well. Various numbers of people, who gained courage from the secrecy of their identities, can easily criticize each other out of the social media tools