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About

NETlab focuses on the new media ecosystem. The laboratory aims to disseminate scientific advances on new media area and the cooperative production culture. Founded in 2017 under Ankara University Faculty of Communication by Dr. Ergin Safak Dikmen; NETLab is open for contributions from various disciplines, universities and enterprises.

Research

The aim of NETLab is to study new communication technologies and their impacts on digital communication ecosystems. NETLab contributes the field by publications, national/international projects and organizing scientific meetings.

Connect

We believe that scientific research should not be restricted to academic publications. For this NETlab adapts and share academic publications according to dynamics of the internet and social media platforms. Within this frame netlab.media is designed as a web based digital platform, joining researchers and scientific knowledge from various disciplines. Through this ideal NETlab aims to form a connection among fields of research.

Train

NETLab provides technological consulting and organizes trainings on the use of new media technologies and social media content production for educational, governmental and non-governmental institutions. NETLab cooperates with universities, research institutes, governmental bodies and non-governmental organizations. NETlab produces informative and educative digital contents and distributes them via open access digital platforms.

Design

NETlab develops contents for internet and virtual reality platforms, produces digital contents for R&D studies and designs digital extensions of science projects on new media ecosystem.

What do we do?

  • Video interviews and educational videos
  • Multimedia contents for digital platforms
  • Digital storytelling
  • Digital communication strategies
  • Data visualisation
  • Motion graphic animation and computer generated imageryilgisayar üretimli imgeleme
  • contents for virtual reality platforms
  • Digitization of historical documents, photographies, negatives and dias

Research area

  • Media Archeology
  • Digital Game - eSports
  • Social Media
  • Data Visualization
  • Free Software
  • Digital Inequalities
  • Digital Storytelling
  • New Media and Ethics

Research areas

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01 Media Archeology It is an interdisciplinary working group that deals with the history of communication research in the context of art, science and technology. It examines past theories and approaches to conducts futur... 02 Digital Game - eSports Research game and toy culture. In parallel with the developments in the field of computer and internet technology, the global digital game industry has created a rapidly growing online game ecosystem.... 03 Social Media Examines the role of social media from a broad perspective, including advertising, commodification, surveillance, advocacy, social movements, political participation and academic use. Social Media res... 04 Data Visualization It is a research and design group that provides content to scientific video ecosystem. It aims to investigate and visualize databases. In this context, NETlab is designing graphical images and animati... 05 Free Software The research group creates software-based roadmaps to allow scientists to examine complex ecosystems with the most accurate tools, especially in research conducted in the new media environment. It exa... 06 Digital Inequalities The working group aims to examine the phenomenon of digital inequality in the daily life practices 07 Digital Storytelling Digital storytelling, is used for social participation, community building, social awareness. It is also used as a method of supporting the therapy of traumatic events. Digital storytelling workshops... 08 New Media and Ethics The opaque nature of algorithms also affects users' usage practices on the interface and the work of researchers who analyze these usage experiences as "data". The main issue here is that platforms ge... 09 Distance Education Distance Education has become a more preferred educational system with the rapid development of information and communication technologies and also it removes the space and time constraints. The aim o...

Team

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Coordinator

PhD Ergin Şafak Dikmen NETlab Coordinator Ankara University İLEF

Researchers

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nilüfer Pınar Kılıç Ankara University İLEF PhD Levent Y. İnce TED University PhD Emel Özdora İ.D. Bilkent University COMD PhD Hümeyra Hüsmen Gaziantep University Esra Özgür Ankara University Michael Asante Quainoo Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Supporters

PhD Bilge Şenyüz Marmara University Naz Önen Başkent Üniversitesi
Mehmet Kürşat Değer Website – front end & back end developer Ankara University

Who we work with

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