7th International Communication Days Symposium on Communication Education in the Digital Age: Book of Abstracts

As Üsküdar University Faculty of Communication, we had planned the seventh international symposium, which we organize regularly within the scope of the International Communication Days (İFİG), with the theme “Communication Education in the Digital Age”. We could not have foreseen that humanity would face such a devastating pandemic and that a significant part of life would be moved to virtual environments. In April 2019, we completed the sixth International Communication Days and immediately after, we determined the theme for the seventh and started our preparations. Our Communication Education in the Digital Age symposium was scheduled to be held in April 2020 at our university's South Campus in Üsküdar under normal circumstances. In March 2020, as we had almost completed all our preparations and were about to announce the symposium program, unfortunately, life came to a near standstill with the coronavirus pandemic. Following this, we decided to postpone the symposium for a few months and hold it online, hoping that the situation would return to a semblance of normalcy. However, in the meantime, we could never have imagined that the theme we had chosen a year earlier would become so intertwined with the period we were experiencing. In fact, when we chose the title “Communication Education in the Digital Age”, our intention was to discuss the current state of communication education on the one hand, and to pave the way for certain views that would shape the future on the other. Ultimately, the world had turned its direction towards the digital age, and it was clear that everything would be very different from today within the next few decades. However, when an unexpected dynamic intervened, everything was turned upside down overnight. Humanity was forced to rapidly and hastily bring its near-future plans into the present. Consequently, the change predicted to occur within an evolutionary process began to be experienced with a revolutionary character due to unwanted and unforeseen reasons. On the one hand, this situation allows for the present observation and comprehension of future predictions in a much more concrete way, but on the other hand, it requires dwelling on the chaotic reflections of such rapid change.

Prof. Dr. Nazife Güngör
Dean of Ü.Ü. Faculty of Communication,
Symposium Organizing Committee Chair and Editor

Publication Date: 2020

ISBN: 978-605-9596-34-3

Edition: 1st Edition

Language: Turkish

Number of Pages: 222

Publisher: Üsküdar University Publications - 27