TOJCAM - Volume 1 - Issue 3 - July 2015
OTTO NEURATH, ISOTYPE PICTURE LANGUAGE AND ITS REFLECTIONS ON RECENT DESIGN Banu İnanç Uyan Dur
Abstract: Sign systems, consist of symbols and pictograms, has a great role in rapidly developing recent technological systems, complicating city life, mutually understanding of people from different cultures and languages. Signs, symbols and pictograms, which are having functions like informing, directing and forming a vernacular, have the aim of providing an universal communication that can be understand by all people despite the language, culture and religion differences. Otto Neuraths ISOTYPE picture language, which is trying to form a wordless global language, is an important milestone while considering much rapid and effective communication need and the process about developing an easy and universal visual communication system without any needs of words. The aim of this graphic language, which is formed with simple pictograms, is to communicate easily without any needs of knowing any language with removing the borders between cultures and languages. Simple pictograms system, used by Otto Neurath in ISOTYPE, is pioneering the modern data visulization and information graphics as presenting the complicated statistical data in simple graphic forms. Pictograms and data visualizations, prepared by Otto Neurath in social, political, economical, healthcare and education topics are the first ones in this field and also directing more than effecting the pictograms, data visualizations and information graphics in recent visual communication design scope.
SCENARISATION OF 9th GRADE TURKISH LITERATURE COURSE CONTENTS TO USE ON MOBILE LEARNING Nazli Cihan, Nur Nacar-Logie, Vakur Ciftcili, Alaskar Ozpercin
Abstract: Mobile learning, which is not dependent on a particular device, refers to a learning condition determined by the individual independently of space and time. This condition speaks of a cultural change reconstructing the standard approach that is decomposed as study-fun, work- leisure, and private-common. The new generation uses mobile devices any time and anywhere. Inevitably, this situation is of particular concern to the education environment and it directs us to the pursuit of new learning environments appropriate for new learning conditions that are somehow made obligatory by technological innovations. As a result of such pursuit in Turkey, tablet computers began to be used in classes. This study brings forward a proposal about how to approach the 9th grade Turkish Literature course contents within the context of mobile learning and how to adjust them to mobile devices.
THE PRESENTATION OF THE GEZI PARK PROTEST IN BIRGUN AND CUMHURÄ°YET NEWSPAPERS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Esra DUDU
Abstract: It is disrupted democratization process because of the fact that the civil society arena which individuals have the opportunity of making ones presence fell under the political power and giving a chance enhancing the consciousness of citizenship get blurred or lose by way of the political power’s oppression. In public sphere where restrain by the government it can be confronted with the state authority setting up self-power instead of community power. Thus, it can be also disappeared the public opinion in the re-politicized public sphere, in which people who come together as a public group organize the general issues included relationships between them (Habermas, 2009: 256–257). Starting from this frame in the study, it is discussed how Gezi Park protest is showed on the opposition newspapers in the case of taking place the civil society-state conflict, that the opponent press is expected to take the side of the civil society and to question the political power. In this context it is examined by text analysis method the news of Gezi Park protest published on Birgün and Cumhuriyet newspapers between 29 May and 02 June, 17 June and 21 June, which are selected as opposition newspapers in Turkish media. In the study it is determined without the newspapers produced the positive discourses both making the citizen liberal and gaining the citizen a representation or not.
THE ROLE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Prof.Dr.Z.Beril Akıncı Vural
Abstract: Effective communication of a corporation with all its stakeholders is very important in order to obtain corporate governance quality. It is quite possible to transmit a corporations transparency, clarity, suitability for law and social responsibility to its stakeholders through public relations (PR) activities. On the other hand, the feedback of stakeholders is also considered an important input for the corporate governance quality. In this study, first of all, corporate governance concept, and the role of PR in obtaining corporate governance quality would be explored. In the second part of the study, Turkcells corporate governance activities would be evaluated in terms of PR management.
THE ROUTINES OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HOMEWORK PREPARATION PROCESS WITH THE USAGE OF INTERNET SOURCES Mustafa DEMİR, Aydın KARABULUT, Ali ÇETİNKAYA
Abstract: With the technologic developments, the usage of internet and gathering information have become easier and this process is naturally eventuated with high use of internet by students during preparing their homework. Especially online libraries like vikipedia and homework preparation the med websites help to the students to prepare their homeworks. Aim of the study is to investigate high school students homework preparation process with the usage of online and offline internet sources.The internet sources used by students, their opinions and routines of internet usage have been investigated with the study. According to this purpose; survey method is used to collect data. Data was collected administering a questionnaire contained Closed-Ended questions. Descriptive analyses technique was administered on the collected data.
USE OF MULTIMODAL CRITICAL DISCOUSE ANALYSIS IN MEDIA STUDIES Gül Esra Çoşkun
Abstract: This study aims to show the importance and necessity of Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis method in media analysis. Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis provides a systematic way of studying not only the language but also different semiotic modes like image, photographs, diagrams or graphics in a media text. Visual media, which converges different communication forms together, needs to be analyzed with a multi-layered approach. In visual media like television, Internet, magazine, and newspapers, meaning is not only communicated through language but also with image, sound and other semiotic modes. Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis studies different modes of a media text and how they function together. Visual Strategies and lexical choices in a media text contribute to the representation of persons or events. This study will try to summarize how Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis denaturalize these ideological representations and claim that, usage of Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis will result in a better understanding of media texts
