in digital culture
AGING & AFTERWARDS
Mutlu Binark & Özgür Arun
Participants
Ali Zain, Aybüke İnal, Aysel Madra, Banu Karademir, Çağrı Elmas, Demet Fırat, Doğan Mert Demir, Enis Öztürk, Ertan Ağaoğlu, Fatma Şeyma Çelebi, Hatice Karakaş, Hüseyin Kısat, Mehmet Fiğan, Naz Önen, Özgenur Aydın, Pelin Tokatlı, Şule Karataş Özaydın, Tuğçe Keleş, Türkan Yılmaz
About the Study
As part of the ILT 648 New Media Studies graduate course at Hacettepe University Faculty of Communication in the 2018-2019 academic year, together with the researchers taking the course, we focused on digital inequality, communication technologies, generations and aging in the media and new media ecosystem in Turkey. It is necessary to discuss the digital divide in Turkey in the context of digital inequalities, and to consider characteristics such as class, gender, ethnicity, age, education, place of residence and region as the main determinants in the acquisition and use of digital skills. On this basis, our working group aimed to examine the ability to use new communication technologies and media and how they are used on the axis of intersectionalities, and to expose the phenomenon of digital inequality in the daily life practices of the aging generations and intergenerational communication practices.
Course Instructor:: Prof. Dr. Mutlu Binark / Hacettepe University Faculty of Communication, Department of Information and Information Technologies.
Project Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Arun / Akdeniz Unv. Faculty of Literature, Gerontology Department.
Multimedia Consultant: Prof. Dr. Lecturer. Prof. Dr. Ergin Şafak Dikmen / Ankara University Faculty of Communication - NETlab
Micro Site Design: Andaç Işık / Ankara University Faculty of Communication Radio Television and Cinema Undergraduate Program
Working Group Coordinator:: Mehmet Fiğan / Hacettepe University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Communication Sciences
The Book
From the Preface
This study named "Digital Culture, Digital Inequalities and Aging", which focuses on digital inequality, communication technologies and generations and aging in the new media ecosystem in Turkey, is the first original work on this subject. We believe that this book will be a qualified reference guide for readers.
Compiled by Prof. Dr. Yeliz Dede Özdemir and Mehmet Figan, this book includes translations of original articles and texts in the field. This compilation is the result of a collective effort, collaboration and long-term research conducted by Prof. Dr. Mutlu Binark, a faculty member at Hacettepe University Faculty of Communication, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Arun, a faculty member at Akdeniz University Faculty of Health Sciences with their students as part of their graduate course “New Media Studies” in Fall 2018. Ankara University Faculty of Communication NETlab and Dr. Assist. Prof. Dr. Ergin Şafak Dikmen also supported this study by making the microsite. As can be seen, this study is the result of a collaboration that cuts across many institutions and individuals.
Faruk Çayır April 25, 2020
ISBN: 978-605-80007-2-8
June 2020, 343 Pages
Editors: Mehmet Fiğan, Yeliz Dede Özdemir
Translation Editors: Ertan Ağaoğlu, M. Burak Özdemir
Book Cover Design: Naz Önen
The rights of the articles belong to the authors.
All content is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Multimedia
Video
Audio
Events
Field Visit and Technical Review
Within the framework of our work focus, on March 1, 2019, we shared with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Arun and his students from the Department of Gerontology, Faculty of Letters, Akdeniz University, our research that we started as part of the course and are still continuing. Researchers doing their postgraduate studies in the Departments of Gerontology and Women's Studies at Akdeniz University also shared their field studies with us at this meeting. On March 2, 2019, we visited the village and the residents of Gökbük to visit the foundation of the AgeLab Science Center to be established in Gökbük Village of Finike district of Akdeniz University Rectorate.
3rd Senex Graduate Studies Congress General Evaluation
The third Senex Graduate Congress on Aging Studies who was held this year at Akdeniz University between November 1-2, 2019 under the theme "For Future Generations: Welfare, Justice, Health, Care, Work, Employment, Technology, Art, Education and Career", set out to examine how inequalities and the reflections of demographic transformation on everyday life will affect all generations and the future. In line with these goals, 32 papers were presented by 45 researchers in 7 sessions on the first day of the congress and a round table discussion "For future generations..." was organized. On the second day, 6 workshops were organized by 8 researchers and 7 posters were presented by 10 researchers. Read
On the Edge of Digital Technologies in Pandemic Days: Elders, Senescence and Aging
With the Covid-19 outbreak affecting the world also being seen in Turkey, our daily life practices, attitudes and behaviors, and habits have inevitably had to change during this period when we had to stay indoors. While online spaces have turned into offices, meeting rooms and classrooms, it has become necessary to go online to access many services and to socialize. With the addition of the age-based lockdown to this challenging process, the ability of individuals over the age of 65 to adapt to the pandemic days emerges as an important issue that needs to be addressed depending on new media usage practices. However, while evaluating this process, the importance of looking at the field from both inside and outside and determining an interdisciplinary perspective should also be taken into account without addressing aging and senescence as a problem-oriented issue and without marginalizing the elders as a categorical group. In this context, Hacettepe University Faculty of Communication, Senex Association, Alternative Informatics Association and NETlab participants came together with an Online Meeting event on April 23, 2020 to discuss both the current pandemic process and the relationship between digital inequalities and aging. Read
Press
Rüzgarlı Newspaper / March 24, 2020
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Arun emphasizes that practices that define aging based on chronological age will lead to age discrimination and cause intergenerational conflict: "All forms of discrimination are very dangerous. One of the most insidious ones is age discrimination.
Görünüm Newspaper / March 5, 2019
Akdeniz University Gerontology Department, Hacettepe University Faculty of Communication and NetLab which was established under the roof of Ankara University, organized a workshop on "Aging in Digital Culture and Aftermath" in Antalya.
haberler.com / March 3, 2019
In Antalya's Finike district, studies have been started in order to establish a science center where research on senescence and projects that will facilitate the lives of the elders will be carried out.
Book Launch / August 1, 2019
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