In this day and age where it is impossible to run away or stay away from technology and digitalization, every invention and progress bring along possible danger. Possible issues that the people who are always on their phone or the people who work sitting on computer all day long and the connection between diseases of our age and those technologies has reached unignorable sizes. The objective in this study which is prepared with a critical approach is to research those possible problems and evaluate on magnitudes they can reach in the future.

The subject of this study is MEMYO Social Solidarity and Aid Club formed by Namk Kemal University Marmaraerelisi Vocational School Students. The aim of the study is to ensure that the MEMYO Social Solidarity and Aid Club project is an example of a unique project proposal for other higher education institutions. The study consists of a systematic compilation of data on the actualization of 26 aid campaigns conducted by the club during the 2015-2016 Academic Year Spring semester and 2016-2017 Fall semester. The "case analysis" method was used as the research method. For the analysis, the record book used by the club members, the photos taken by the Vocational School Press and Public Relations Unit during club activities, and printed and video news about the national press club work in 2016 were used. As a result of the research, without any formal hierarchical structure, regardless of university student communities, and without limitation to any regulations or rules; it is revealed that the continuity of the activities of the "MEMYO Social Solidarity and Aid Club", which is carried out by the student centre, originated from the original and autonomous study area that the students created. In this context, it is important that the coordinator instructors only assume the role of consultant in the work of the clubs established in higher education, and that a broader movement of the student is provided in terms of club activities and functioning.

The news related to the Case in which 301 workers lost their lives as result of gas poisoning in Soma Coal Mine on May 14, 2014 was screened on the Internet news portals of 3 newspapers with large circulation rates in social media journalism in Turkey, and the aforementioned news was discussed in terms of experienced institutional crisis management.The primary purpose to carry out this research was to predict that an institutional management crisis was experienced in terms of coal company related to the aforementioned Case and to reveal this Case in terms of social media journalism using content analysis.The research was a ″Screening Research″ in terms of providing and using information.The research was carried out through ″Content Analysis″ method.The aforementioned review was performed upon news and comments related to the institutional management crisis relevant to ″Soma Case″ as the research subject.Each word and sentence in news and comments related to ″Soma Case″ between 14.05.2014 and 12.08.2014time period in archives were included into the research.Aforementioned screening was performed in the archives of Milliyet, Hürriyet and Newstürk social media newspapers, respectively, depending upon ″the first 100 news sites clicked most in Turkey″ decided by Comscore in 2013 and 2014.As a result of screening, it was concluded that totally 965 pieces of news related to ″Soma Case″ were determined to be included, and 86 pieces of news among these were related to the Soma coal management crisis.

The image is the imagination that emerges as a result of the interaction between the person and others and the objects and life practices. The image of the object leads to the desire to have access to the object, leads to dependency and even compliance, identification and internalization of the object in the process.In this way, the object produced by man is metamorphosed and transformed into an independent entity, and the object acquires identity, personality and self within the process. As for theoreticians, they are explaining this relation as "we are what we have" and "we think what we look at". As for self, it comes into existence as a result of persons interaction with objects and others in social structure and representment of self is accepted as persons image. According to self-theorists, people aim to protect and strengthen their self-image, and use social relations as a means to achieve their goals. People use the image of objects to have the image they desire and manage dramaturgy and impression in their social relations. Thanks to the development of the Internet and technology, the convergence and digitization of communication tools and information technologies has created new media. Peoples desire to socialize and the possibility of technology enabled McLuhan's concept of "global village" and created social media channel. With the help of new media tools, people now join social media, create images, symbols and showings created by artists in Antique Age, Medieval Age and Renaissance, and becoma a media producer. While the people in the social media channel manage image through dramaturgy and impression management, brands manage image with public relations, advertisement and integrated marketing communication applications. Bourdieu refers to the settled place, settlers, habits and processes in the concept "habitus". In this context, study aims to explain the relationship between social media (place of settlement) and those who use social media (settlers) based on the concept of "habitus" and the direction of personal and brand image of habits arising as a result of this relationship and process. The study is written within the scope of doctorate thesis titled "Transformation of personal and brand image management in social media" which is still going on in Istanbul Aydn University and descriptive research method which is applied research method and application of communication science is used.

The media industry is being rapidly digitalized in line with the technological advances. Particularly, the magazines are being digitalized to present a more interactive content and to reduce the costs. The digitalized magazines get rid of the printing costs and are issued with a greater volume by overcoming the problem of page limitation. The digital magazines can take more advertisements and place greater number of photograph and news. The women's magazines, which use photographs extensively and try to offer a richer content, try to meet the readers both with printed and digital versions. The women's magazines have greater popularity as they have accessibility and affordability or mostly free availability. The reader, who does not want to buy the printed version, can access the digital magazines from their mobile phone or tablet online or offline after downloading. The choice of Bela which is monthly published in Bulgaria as well as Elele published in Turkey in this study titled "A Comparative Review of Bela and Elele Digital Magazines in terms of Content", are also due to their online accessibility. 11 of the year 2013 issues of the two magazines are analyzed both qualitatively and quantitively with a content analysis. Since both journals did not published the January issue of the year 2013, 11 issues of them are examined. Since the latest digital version of the Bela magazine is the 2014 March issue, the year 2013 is chosen as the closest date to today. The type and number of news, photo usage rates, the distribution of advertisements constitute the main elements of the study. The examination show that the contents are heavily similar to each other although the countries and cultures are different. The news on fashion, beauty, personal care, health and sexuality are among the indispensable news of both magazines.

Live broadcast, being in the monopoly of the traditional media in the past, has become a broadcasting opportunity accessible to much more people thanks to the developing digital technology nowadays. This opportunity is even available to anybody using a cellular phone through applications that make live streaming possible by a single touch. Periscope, which is a mobile live streaming application, is one of them. This study aims to identify, classify and reveal the properties of various reporting and interviewing styles in the new media by conducting the quantitative, qualitative and discourse analysis of the live streaming of the professional and citizen reporters on Periscope. Thus, also the answer to the question, whether the content produced on Periscope is in compliance with the format of that medium is investigated. In this study, it has been questioned what the data at hand points for facilitating the professionals, who use Periscope independently from their roles within the conventional media or as a complementary to their roles in the conventional media and the citizens, who use it for journalistic purposes to create an effective alternative in this new platform.

Communication is a necessity for humanity.In order to meet this requirement, people have always worked hard.Mankind has used technical knowledge to improve technology.This development of technology brings new communication environments and transforms individuals into individual users.Virtual reality technology, in which the reality is reproduced with the emergence of internet technology in particular, has added innovations to communication environments.The augmented reality technology that is produced surrounds the individual by making interactions with the real world and the virtual world that the individual is in.This technology, which has striking effects on the individual's everyday life, carries real life by transferring the individual to full participation.

This study covers an examination of the "Public Relations" education and the respective issues of Communication Faculties in Turkey.It is evident that the public relations units are vital for all government bodies and commercial organizations in Turkey.However, the concept of 'public relations' is not properly comprehended and emerging issues lead to a questioning of the public relations education.After a general examination of the communication education in Turkey, the public relations education and its issues shall be examined to investigate the conditions for better education on public relations.In this study, the concept of public relations and its extensions have been discussed through a literature review and in line with such definitions, an online survey (questionnaire method) has been conducted with the teaching staff, students and graduates of public relations departments as random participants and the data has been analyzed.The population of the study comprises the public relations students in Turkey.In addition to the analyses and examinations in this study, the aim has been to reveal the structure of public relations education in Turkey and to generate solutions for issues.

Terror is not an ordinary act of violance. The ultimate goal of terrorists is to become popular and to announce their ideology by fueling terror, panic and fear. At this point, the terror's dependency on and need for media is clear. As for media, because of its public accountability, it is responsible for transmitting news, information and thoughts. This symbiotic relationship between media and terrorism has been debated since the occurrence of mass media; several solutions have been proposed regarding how and at what rate the terror news should be published in media. Today, the necessity for media's sensitivity to the journalism of terror and its responsibility has been increased. Hence, the information gap opened in traditional media is loaded most of the time with news, information and content shared by terrorist organizations' media channels and terrorists or sympathizers, in an uncontrolled area -new media-. Along with the relationship between terror and media, with the structure of feeding each other, it is observed that the terrorist organizations take advantage of new media and modern communication technologies professionally. Herein, journalism of terror has to be carried out in a professional way by abstaining from publication bans and modern concept of terrorism in question has to be head off via new media with safeguards. At this point, government's efficient use of new media in counter-terrorism and user education of critical new media literacy is important.

The need of an individual for news is greater than ever in the modern world, where there is a continuous stream of information and news.The widespread use of mobile devices to satisfy this need, the access to the Social Media by means of mobile devices upon the increases in mobile use and possibilities, the formation of clusters in the new media by users accordingly and the fact that the media organizations carried news to the Social Media in order to include the clustered users in their masses of viewers/readers created convergence between the news media and the Social Media.In this context, some 477 respondents were surveyed by employing the method of random sampling in September 2015 in order to reveal what the tendencies of users towards news sharing on Twitter were, whether the means of mass media had any convergence effect on the sharing of news content, and which demographic elements were effective on news sharing on Twitter and its convergence with the means of mass media.In the research, it was concluded that the university students preferred the Social Media also in order to acquire news, that the media features of Twitter positively affected news sharing owing to its unique and characteristic structure, that the users tended to share the agenda and political news on Twitter by either posting original current tweets or retweeting, that there was an increase in the frequency of using independent news (independent news sites and blogs) sources as they attached importance to tweeting or retweeting the accurate news, and that this turned Twitter into an alternative news center rather than a social network.Regarding Twitter news convergence with the means of mass media, it turned out that the convergence of magazines and radio with Twitter was not as strong as that of television and newspapers.Finally, it was discovered that the ages and employment statuses of the respondents were effective demographic elements with respect to tweeting news on Twitter, whereas the financial income condition, which made it possible to access the media, was the effective demographic element in the context of Twitter news convergence with the means of mass media.