Media with its news, approaches and fractions in the new media age

The digital era we are in is presenting a series of innovations every day. Today, technology is becoming a decisive factor in everyday life as well as in professional life. Every day, new media, which develop at a fast pace, influence many areas from everyday relations to professions and transform media. For example, the traditional media today has to adapt to new communication technologies and new media-based platforms. However, new forms of journalism and their tendencies are the ones that have a negative effect on the traditional media. Therefore, it is important to understand the situation of the traditional media in the new media age. This book will serve as a guide to understanding the new media – which stand as a great power against the traditional media today – as well as the structure of its environments and its potentialities.

Nurettin Güz is a professor at the Department of Journalism at the Communication Faculty of Hacı Bayram Veli University in Ankara. He worked at Gazi University and Selcuk University. He also served as the Press and Public Relations Adviser of the Ministry of National Education. His research interests include political communication, Ottoman and Turkish press as well as traditional and new media approaches.

Ceren Yegen graduated from the Department of Communication of Girne American University, TRNC. She was awarded her master's degree and doctorate from the Journalism Department of the Social Sciences Institute, Gazi University. She is Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Communication at Muş Alparslan University. Her research and publications revolve around new media, journalism, political communication and nationalism.