İletişim Fakültesi / Faculty of Communicationhttp://hdl.handle.net/11727/14002024-03-28T21:45:54Z2024-03-28T21:45:54ZThe Relationship Between Agression and Online Video Game Addiction: A Study on Massively Multiplayer Online Video Game PlayersMadran, H. Andac DemirtasCakilci, Eda Ferligulhttp://hdl.handle.net/11727/117302024-03-06T13:05:32Z2014-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Relationship Between Agression and Online Video Game Addiction: A Study on Massively Multiplayer Online Video Game Players
Madran, H. Andac Demirtas; Cakilci, Eda Ferligul
Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between aggression and online video game addiction scores of massively multiplayer online video game players. Methods: Study included 205 participants who are playing massively multiplayer online video games more than 12 months. Mean age of the participant was 18+/-40. Data were collected via a personal information form consisting of questions about participants. demographical background, Turkish version of the Buss-Perry Aggression Scale and Internet Addiction Scale. Correlation, t-test and stepwise regression analyses conducted to analyze the data. Results: Analysis indicated that there was a significantly high correlation between agression scores and video game addiction scores. Males have significantly higher psysical aggression scores than females. Age was negatively correlated with total aggression scores and all the subscale scores of Buss-Perry Agression Questionnaire (psyhical aggression, anger, verbal aggression and hostility). There was a negative correlation between age and video game addiction scores. Two subscales (isolation, loss of control) of the addiction scale predicted agression scores. Conclusion: The present study revealed that there was a significant correlation between agression and online video game addiction. On the other hand, age was negatively correlated with aggression and video game addiction scores of the participants.
2014-01-01T00:00:00ZSocial Media in Political Communication and the Use of Twitter in the 2011 General Elections in TurkeyBayraktutan, GunseliBinark, MutluComu, TugrulDogu, BurakIslamoglu, GozdeAydemir, Asli Tellihttp://hdl.handle.net/11727/114962024-02-13T13:05:00Z2014-01-01T00:00:00ZSocial Media in Political Communication and the Use of Twitter in the 2011 General Elections in Turkey
Bayraktutan, Gunseli; Binark, Mutlu; Comu, Tugrul; Dogu, Burak; Islamoglu, Gozde; Aydemir, Asli Telli
Social media environments, which are basically new media applications, have many users both in Turkey and in the world. These applications, which make direct interaction via the Internet possible, are used frequently by the candidates and/or the members of political parties during the election periods. This study focuses on the relationship between the candidates or members of political parties and the voters along with the social media using practices in the sample of Twitter as a social media environment, where the candidates and/or the members of political parties are users themselves, unlike the personal or institutional web sites where they have a broader ability to moderate. For this purpose, Twitter accounts belonging to the members of political parties and party leaders during Turkey's General Elections in 2011 have been examined, and the findings based on quantitative content analysis about their Twitter accounts and tweets have been evaluated.
2014-01-01T00:00:00ZTracking Public Relations History in 1960s' Turkey: The Prevalence and Reflections of Development DiscourseHizal, G. Senem GencturkOzdemir, B. PinarYamanoglu, Melike Aktashttp://hdl.handle.net/11727/111842023-12-22T11:40:38Z2014-01-01T00:00:00ZTracking Public Relations History in 1960s' Turkey: The Prevalence and Reflections of Development Discourse
Hizal, G. Senem Gencturk; Ozdemir, B. Pinar; Yamanoglu, Melike Aktas
This study is based on a historical research, which focuses on the institutionalization of public relations in Turkey during the 1960s, and interprets this process in the frame of planned development discourse. Primary written sources collected from archive research and oral narratives generated from fourteen semi-structured interviews conducted with the pioneers in Turkey are analyzed through categorization and thematization. Findings of the historical research indicated that similar themes and orientations guided public relations practices in public and private sector in this period. Accordingly public relations education provided necessary intellectual background and human resources. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
2014-01-01T00:00:00ZMaking Grandfather Come Out Better Portraits of Ancestors and Digital Manipulation in Contemporary TurkeyAytemiz, Pelinhttp://hdl.handle.net/11727/109622023-11-30T10:15:24Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZMaking Grandfather Come Out Better Portraits of Ancestors and Digital Manipulation in Contemporary Turkey
Aytemiz, Pelin
In contemporary Turkey, a growing number of lower to middle-income families bring old and often damaged photographs of their deceased family members to digital studios for restoration. Digital restoration artists, whether working online or from photography studios, retouch these photographs in often highly creative ways, such as adding color and fantasy backgrounds, or combining discrete portraits into fictional (diachronic) family portraits. Digital technologies such as the Photoshop program are here called upon to perform a very old desire: that of ensuring a dead person's continued presence. Engaging with debates on the passage from analog to digital and the relationship of photography to death, I examine this process from two perspectives. First, I focus on digital artists who understand their work in professional terms as intensely material, and in social terms as one of 'saving photographs from death'; second, I examine the renewed social potency that such digitally remastered photographs acquire in Turkish homes, where digital intervention not only ensures the continued potency of ancestral photographs in ensuring the presence of the deceased patriarch, but also enhances this presence in novel ways. Digitally remastered photographs are understood here as more than 'just' photo-realistic. They are 'more perfect' or even 'more real': their fictionality adds to their auratic character as icons of authority and makes them eminently suited for the renewed kind of social work that is demanded of them.
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