Websites In Turkey Research Articles

Medical markets for imagined futures: the framing of egg freezing on fertility clinic websites in Turkey

Medical markets for imagined futures: the framing of egg freezing on fertility clinic websites in Turkey

An evaluation about literary websites in Turkey

Bu çalışmada Türkiye kaynaklı edebiyat sitelerinin değişik parametreler çerçevesinde değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Çalışmanın bütüncesi, Google arama motoru üzerinden edebiyat, edebiyat siteleri, Türkçe edebiyat siteleri ve benzeri farklı anahtar kelimeler aracılığıyla yapılan taramalar neticesinde bu bağlamda tasarlanmış ve ücretsiz ulaşılabilinen 14 etkileşimli edebiyat sitesinin derlenmesi yoluyla oluşturulmuş ve ardından söz edilen bütün siteler sırasıyla genel görünümleri, ağırlıklı yazın ve içerik türleri, site kurucuları, doküman türleri, site içi etkileşimleri, yardımcı araçlar ve ticari etkileşimleri bakımından olmak üzere 7 (yedi) farklı başlık altında incelenerek değerlendirilmeye çalışılmıştır. İnceleme neticesinde sitelerin; öncelikle görünüm olarak genellikle çağdaş bir arayüze sahip oldukları ve ağırlıklı yazın türü olarak da şiir ve öykülere yer verdikleri tespit edilmiştir. Bunun yanı sıra, sitelerin genellikle şahıs veya ekipler tarafından ya da anonim olarak kurulabildiği görülmekte, doküman türü olarak da tamamında metinlerin yer aldığı dikkat çekmektedir. Edebiyat sitelerinde yer alan yardımcı araçlar incelendiğinde ise “arama motoru” ve “üç adımda bulma” seçeneklerinin ise kullanıcılara hızlı erişim sağlaması bakımından sitelerin tamamında varlığı tespit edilmiştir. Son olarak, yine sitelerin tümünde günümüzde sıkça kullanılan sosyal medya etkileşimi ve sitelerin çoğunda ise ticari etkileşim özelliklerinin bulunduğu saptanmıştır.

Accessibility evaluation of university hospital websites in Turkey.

Hospital web pages serve as an interactive communication resource to meet the needs of patients, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders. The aim of this study is to present the accessibility analysis of 58 university hospital websites in Turkey. For this purpose, websites of the selected university hospitals were analyzed using two different online automated testing tools. The results showed that university hospital websites in Turkey had low compliance levels according to the WCAG 2.0 guidelines. Most of the websites did not even meet the minimum requirements for compliance level A. In addition, almost all of the websites had broken links and about a third of the websites had problems with accessing from mobile devices. Moreover, some important clues that draw attention to the accessibility problems of websites are also discussed in this study. Hence, the results of this study provide feedback to developers and administrators to improve the accessibility of these websites.

Investigating the Websites in Turkey that Providing Information on Fibromyalgia Syndrome by Readability, Content and Quality

Investigating the Websites in Turkey that Providing Information on Fibromyalgia Syndrome by Readability, Content and Quality

Ranking online shopping websites by considering the criteria weights

In this study, a three-step methodology is proposed. To begin with, a total of seven main criteria and 23 sub-criteria that affect the selection of online shopping websites are determined by searching the literature and interviewing people. Next, a questionnaire is applied to the people from Turkey and Croatia. It is evaluated using AHP methodology to find the main and sub-criteria weights from the perspective of Turkish and Croatian people. Furthermore, a second questionnaire for ranking three popular online shopping websites in Turkey has been applied. Finally, online shopping websites are ranked as B, A, and C based on the scores obtained from the second questionnaire and criteria weights found in the second step. After estimating the decision weights of the sample from Croatia, we use that as a “what if” analysis for websites A, B, and C. Customers’ shopping behaviors from those online shopping websites are analyzed using SPSS.

Türkiye deki Gastronomi Müzelerinin Web Sitelerinin İçerik Analizi

The aim of this study is to investigate gastronomy museums' websites in Turkey in terms of various variables. Research population consisted of all gastronomy museums in Turkey. 27 gastronomy museums have been evaluated and 21 gastronomy museums which have websites have been examined. Content analysis was used through the website evaluation form. While the websites contain a lot of information in terms of promotion, the information regarding the promotion of the destination is limited. While the communication channels are included within the scope of customer communication, the rate of social media accounts on the website is low. In addition, it has been concluded that the websites of gastronomy museums are insufficient in terms of media relations, corporate identity and design. Gastronomy museums, which are considered as part of gastronomic events, are an important attraction for destinations. As the tourists examine the websites before visiting gastronomy museums, it is recommended that the gastronomy museums make their websites more effective and manage them.

Web-based macroseismic intensity study in Turkey – entries on Ekşi Sözlük

Abstract. Ekşi Sözlük is one of the most visited websites in Turkey. Registered users of the website share their knowledge about any topic. In this study, we collect the user entries on the topic of 20 earthquakes in Turkey and the surrounding area. Entries with city and district level information are converted to intensity values. Shake maps of the earthquakes are created by using a ground motion to intensity conversion equation. User entries and created shake maps are compared. It is found that entries correlate with the predicted intensities. It is also found that local soil conditions and building types have an amplifier effect on entries on the website. Several entries on the earthquake topics have magnitude estimations. The difference between predicted and observed intensities also varies with distance. Users are able to predict the magnitudes of the earthquakes with ±0.54 misfit. This study shows that Ekşi Sözlük has the potential to be a reliable source of macroseismic intensity for the earthquakes in Turkey if the felt reports are collected with a predetermined format.

A Research On Sustainability Reports Of Business In Terms Of Corporate Social Responsibility

The increasing awareness of individuals about the environmental and social impact of the corporations’ activities has made it important for corporations to share their reports about corporate sustainability with the target audiences. The purpose of this study is to determine, how much they are committed to sustainability reports they publish by content analysis method. It presents findings from an analysis of 100 company’websites in Turkey and sustainability reports and discusses the findings within this conceptual context. The findings of the research showed that the majority of the companies that were examined did not share their sustainability-oriented efforts on their websites. Most of the companies that shared their reports try to make their commitments towards sustainability concrete with at least one initiative. It was determined that the least mentioned element in all the themes in the reports was about the results of performance measurement. As a result, companies make a commitment and support it in an initiative, while paying less attention to sharing its results for performance measures and being less willing to do so.

Memories, stories and deliberation: Digital sisterhood on feminist websites in Turkey

Based on content analysis and in-depth interviews with the editors of 5Harfliler, Catlak Zemin and Recel-blog, popular pro-feminist women’s websites in Turkey, this article shows that these websites constitute important projects in feminist memory work in two ways: (1) explicitly, by commemorating women in history, the gains of the women’s movement in Turkey, and by archiving misogynist policies and gender unequal legislation; (2) implicitly, in the essays written by anonymous women whose personal memories of feminist activism as well as oppression and patriarchy experienced in everyday life become sources for discussion of feminist identity and politics and contribute to women’s history writing from below. The websites also serve as a platform where feminist identity is negotiated and the past, present and future of feminist politics are discussed in a humorous, agonistic and affective style. The source of deliberation is often women’s everyday experiences and concerns rather than formal politics. Although keeping a distance from formal politics renders these websites open to criticisms of naiveté and apoliticism, they provide a creative platform for the constructive discussion of women’s shared everyday problems which are closely connected to a larger political context.

Systematic evaluation of the websites: Hospital-based practice

ABSTRACTThe main purpose of this study is to find out the factors affecting the quality of private hospital websites in Turkey. The data were collected from all hospital websites which belonged to private general hospitals, private specialty hospitals, and foundation-university hospitals in Turkey. Within the scope of this study, 519 websites were examined according to the checklist. A total of 45 items related to the quality of hospital websites such as logo, mission, vision, ISO and accreditation, email address, hospital map, departmental info, doctors’ background, insurance info, online appointment, online lab results, patient rights, additional languages, etc. were included in the study. Total scores of website quality were calculated by the total of these 45 items of the websites. Simple linear regression analysis was used to estimate the correlation between the independent factors (Geographical Region, Bed Size, Status of the Hospital, and Regional Development Index of the hospital) and the website quality score. According to the results, hospital bed size and regional development index had a significant role in hospital website quality scores.

Web accessibility evaluation of university websites in turkey in terms of visually and hearing impaired users

Web accessibility evaluation of university websites in turkey in terms of visually and hearing impaired users

Evaluation of Most Visited E-Commerce Web Sites in Turkey in Aspects of Structure and Security

Applications on World Wide Web have made our daily lives easier with their basic and fast access, neglecting time and place, they have become indispensable. It made Web applications a popular target for malevolent users and increased web security risk. In this study web penetration test which is indispensable for web security and threating risks for web security are mentioned. In Turkey, 12 of the most visited e-commerce sites were scanned as an ordinary user to consider a safety assessment of the general situation of the websites. The knowledge about these sites such as used technologies and infrastructure which considers as vulnerability of sites and can be obtained by the ordinal person who uses penetration tests has been investigated in this study

Banking Websites in Turkey: an Accessibility, Usability and Security Evaluation

With the proliferation of the Internet, banks are adopting technologies to create their own Websites. Websites have evolved into an excellent means of information dissemination and visibility. Hence banks and organizations around the world have websites as primary medium for information communication. The information in bank web sites, which are broadly assumed in numerous nations, must be accessible for all people, easy to use, exact and secure. Since the web is a significant assets of information for millions of people at all levels, attaining accessible e-banking services that enable customers to gain from them and execute varied customers’ prerequisites, regardless of time and location constraints, has become a global aim. The main aim of this study is to investigate the accessibility, usability and vulnerability of Turkish banking websites. A total of thirty two banking websites in Turkey were analyzed according to the criteria of the WCAG 2.0 guidelines, and all of them was selected for further analysis based on usability and vulnerability criteria. The results showed that the evaluated websites had significant number of accessibility, usability and vulnerability problems.

Corporate website content related to disability in the top 50 fortune firms in Turkey

As a result of worldwide increased awareness in disability, organizations in Turkey are also assumed to reconsider their values, norms and behaviors accordingly. Considering the intention of maintaining legitimacy in especially high revenue firms, this study aims to reveal similarities and differences about disability disclosure of top 50 Fortune firms’ websites in Turkey. Website contents are analyzed via content analysis. Results indicate that firms give emphasis on ‘physical conditions in facilities’, ‘education of people with disabilities and employees’, ‘products’, ‘requirements to get services’ and ‘donations’. In some industries firms share similar contents though differences are more than similarities in overall. Firms’ poor application of disability employment related legislations are also discussed in results. Accordingly this study reveals current understanding while emphasizing potential improvements. http://dx.doi.org/10.17130/ijmeb.2018137580

An Exploration of Hospitality Management Competencies in Turkey through Content Analysis of the Job Ads

This paper reports on the hospitality management competencies required to be assigned to a management position in Turkey. The study found out a number of competencies with top priority ranging from 82.1 to 21.4 percent extracted from job ads on the most browsed career websites in Turkey by employing a content analysis as the research method. These core competencies were delineated in the five domains of Sandwith’s Competency Domain Model in order to discover how they pertained to the theory. The in-depth analysis rendered the whole range of domains particularly leadership, technical and interpersonal, partly conceptual/creative and administrative. The study concluded that recruiters mainly look for managers with leadership, technical and interpersonal competencies in Turkey.

Evaluation of service quality of hotel and holiday reservation web sites in Turkey by integrated Swara-Gray relationship analysis method

With the development and widespread use of technology, the rate of Internet use in the world is rapidly increasing. It has made our life even easier as almost all of our daily needs are met through the internet. The widespread use of the Internet has influenced many sectors and has also influenced the tourism industry, enabling many online hotels and holiday booking websites to emerge. Hotels and holiday booking websites have provided facilities for hotel and holiday selection, and offer many opportunities to compare alternatives. However, the issue of which booking website is best for individuals who make a reservation plan is a matter of multi-criteria decision making. In this study, it was aimed to determine the importance levels (weights) of the criteria to be used in preference of holiday reservation web sites by using SWARA method and to include the criteria weights in the process and to evaluate alternative holiday reservation websites in Turkey using Gray Relational Analysis method. In addition, the service quality of seven hotels and holiday booking websites operating in Turkey has been tried to be evaluated. The most important criterion that consumers use to make site reservation for hotels and holiday over the Internet is reliability. In addition, the hotel and holiday booking companies have been evaluated in terms of service quality and TATILBUDUR.COM among the web sites was the first place.

Banal nationalism and queers online: Enforcing and resisting cultural meanings of .tr

Focusing on daily (re)productions of national identities online, in this article, I investigate a particular country-code Top-Level Domain, .tr for Turkey. I follow Billig’s concept of ‘banal nationalism’ to argue that .tr (re)produces online Turkish national imaginations. Furthermore, I inspect the hegemonic Turkish norms of sexuality to examine what kind of Turkishness .tr (re)produces. The analyses of the policies governing the allocation process of .tr and the email interviews with the authors of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* websites in Turkey show that .tr works to (re)produce, in a banal way, queer-free notion of Turkishness online. My analysis also demonstrates that some authors of the analysed websites do not dismiss .tr as banal but refuse to use it in resistance against the Turkish national requirements embedded in the domain. More broadly, I argue for the acknowledgement of cultural structures in internet governance studies.

İnternet Erişim Özgürlüğünün Kısıtlanması: Türkiye Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme

Türkiye’de internet erişim engellemeleri ve sansür algısında farklılıkların bulunması, bu konudaki literatüre de yansımaktadır. Literatürde, sınırsız internet erişim özgürlüğü isteyen, 5651 Sayılı Kanun’u eleştiren ve kaldırılması gerektiğini savunan ya da tüm filtreleme ve erişim engellemelerini sansür uygulaması olarak nitelendiren birçok yayın yer almaktadır. Bu çalışmada, Türkiye’de internet erişim özgürlüğünün kısıtlanmasına neden olan uygulamaların, mevcut hukuksal düzenlemeler çerçevesinde değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Önceki çalışmalardan farklı olarak, mevzuat, uygulama ve alınan kararlar arasındaki ilişki ayrıntılı olarak incelenmiş, zararlı içeriğe sahip olduğu gerekçesiyle internet sitelerinin erişime kapatılmasının ne kadar başarılı olduğuna yanıt aranmış ve erişim engellemelerinin amacına ulaşabilmesi için neler yapılması gerektiği konusunda önerilerde bulunulmuştur. Ayrıca, alternatif yöntemler aracılığıyla erişime kapatılan sitelere nasıl kolayca erişim sağlanabildiğine dikkat çekilmiş ve bu durumun bilgi erişim özgürlüğü kapsamında hukuksal değerlendirmesi yapılmıştır. Literatürde yer alan eleştirilerin geçerliği hukuksal düzenlemeler, alınan erişim engelleme kararları, Yargıtay kararları ve uygulama sonucunda amaçlanan hedefe ulaşılabilme durumu irdelenerek yeniden değerlendirilmiştir. Elde edilen bulgularda çocuklar için zararlı içerikle mücadele konusunda dünya genelinde ortak irade oluştuğu, ancak Türkiye’de daha kapsamlı mücadelenin saydam olmayan yöntemlerle yürütülmesinden dolayı “sansür uygulaması” algısının oluştuğu görülmektedir. Erişime kapatılan sitelere Türkiye’den erişim istatistikleri 5651 Sayılı Kanun ve uygulanan yöntemin amaçlanan hedefe ulaşmada yetersiz kaldığını göstermektedir.

(Il)Legitimisation of the role of the nation state: Understanding of and reactions to Internet censorship in Turkey

This study aims to explore Turkish citizen-consumers’ understanding of and reactions to censorship of websites in Turkey by using in-depth interviews and online ethnography. In an environment where sites such as YouTube and others are increasingly being banned, the citizen-consumers’ macro-level understanding is that such censorship is part of a wider ideological plan and their micro-level understanding is that their relationship with the wider global network is reduced, in the sense that they have trouble accessing full information on products, services and experiences. The study revealed that citizen-consumers engage in two types of resistance strategies against such domination by the state: using irony as passive resistance, and using the very same technology used by the state to resist its domination.

Evaluation of Turkish "E-Okul" System in Terms of Usability

Recently, many institutions have started to offer online services via the internet. In this respect, it can be said that one of the most frequently accessed websites in Turkey is the e- Okul system offering services in the field of education. The current study aims at evaluating the e-Okul system used by parents, students and teachers, in terms of usability, identifying the factors affecting its usability and, later, offering some suggestions to increase its effectiveness and quality. In the study, the e-Okul system was evaluated by ten high school teachers and 95 students and their parents. The Usability Test was administered to the teachers. Components of this Usability Test included a Demographic Survey, a Task List, a Satisfaction Questionnaire and an Observation Form that were used as data collection tools. The parents and students completed an Attitude Questionnaire. The data obtained was analysed on the basis of effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction criteria, which form the basis for usability. According to the results of the study, the users reported some design and navigation problems, especially regarding the pages enabling access to student information. Nevertheless, the parents and students were found to be satisfied with the e-Okul system.