The New Media and Urban Studies Group has a conceptual framework that addresses theoretical and practical research and studies related to the urban studies of new media, especially in the context of spatial practices. New Media and Urban studies have rich conceptual and paradigmatic expansions such as Digital Space, Social Media and Urban Identity, Electronic Citizenship, City and Data Visualization, Digital Topography Software, Digital Stories, City and Ethics, Virtual Identities, Digital Surveillance and the City, Digital and Smart Cities, Urban Archaeology, Urban Memory, Urban Narratives, Psychological Mapping, Space-Centered Social Networks, Augmented Reality and the City, and the re-representation of spaces in digital media. In this context, the research group aims to address the reflections of urban phenomena and studies in new media with their social, economic, psychological and philosophical aspects. The New Media and Urban Studies Group aims to understand the meaning, power and effects of new media on our lives and is an interdisciplinary research group working with an interdisciplinary perspective that supports the infrastructure of these studies with theories and concepts.
MISSION:
New Media and Urban Studies aims at research focused on the changing and differentiating aspects of the city and new media in various disciplines, the development of research methods, and the exploration of new means of communication about social and cultural developments. New Media and Urban Studies is an important field of study that encompasses and influences all disciplines that interact with the city, society and culture. The New Media and Urban Studies research group sets standards for the scientific use of the city and new media, especially for urban studies, and works to publicize and increase the visibility of these standards. The multidisciplinary character of the working group reflects scientifically based research that aims to address a wide range of urban studies such as aesthetics, sociology, philosophy, ethnography, anthropology, architecture, urban and cultural studies, documentary film and photography, urban identity, digital and smart cities, urban archaeology, urban memory, urban narratives, psychological mapping, augmented reality and the city together with new communication tools.
VISION
The objectives of the New Media and Urban Studies working group are as follows:
- To provide a national and international forum for the development of urban research.
- To promote the acceptance and understanding of the wide range of methods, approaches and paradigms that make up New Media and Urban studies-based research.
- To develop a perspective that compiles and develops New Media and Urban studies in the Social Sciences.
- To explore existing methodologies in the field of urban studies and to develop the groundwork for modernizing and updating their methodologies in relation to new media applications.
- To conduct research that synthesizes between New Media and Urban studies research methods and analytical approaches.
- Provide academic space and arena for in-depth exploration of various approaches, specific methods, themes and visual phenomena
-To organize academic and artistic workshops and meetings related to urban studies.
- To provide academic infrastructure for New Media and Urban Studies and to open a publication area.
- To contribute to the awareness of New Media and Urban Studies in traditional and digital media.
-To create and enrich the social ecology in a way to ensure academic collaborations with NGOs and institutions, municipalities and local governments, provincial cultural directorates and museums related to history, city and art within the scope of urban studies.
