Aim of the Conference / Conference Focus

Generally speaking, the term "New" brought about debates. We try to open up and elucidate the term "New" along with "Interactivity" and "Convergence". By doing this, we try to elaborate "New Media" from the perspectives of Social Media, Knowledge Management, Information Systems, Search Engines, (Online/Citizen) Journalism, (E-) Learning, (Online) Public Relations, (Internet) Advertising, Cable & Satellite, Mobile, and (Online) Radio Television, Cinema and Music.

From a wide perspective, New Media, which permeate in our everyday life; creates changes and transforms our livings, habits, and views starting from the way we see the world to global politics of nations or firms. During this process, social expectations/worries give their place to individual expectations/worries where the individuals become more important than ever before.

In this context, trough mass communication’ eyes we see that various transformations and problems come into question. It will be appropriate to approach to these formations in accordance with the concept of "information society", which is broadly discussed in the context of public sphere.

Although the adjective "new" quickly loses its chronological meaning if it is used in conjunction with technology, our purpose is to deal with the changes made by this adjective to the concepts "media", "economy", "advertising", "sociology", "psychology" and "education" and the like by discussing the concepts of "new media" and "human-computer interaction".

Social Media