Focusing on the daily life of lesbians and bisexual women, this study deals with the discrimination and violence that women loving women are exposed to in their daily lives, together with a large spectrum of coping practices ...

In consumer society, love has been commodified by converted into a tradable object. The main problem of this study is the abundant expression of love narratives, seeking for a genuine, pure love; the commodified love form ...

This thesis tries to study the topics of new media and identity with a focus on computergames. In line with ludological approaches I argue that computer games need nonrepresentationaltheories to be adequately conceptualised. ...

It has been provided that there is a comprehensive academic literature upon femaleand male representation in visual arts. It has been presented that the femalerepresentation is compatible with patriarchal ideology, provided ...

The study examines Fight Club, American Beauty and Truman Show over consumer society, media, masculinity in crisis and violence in light of the economic, social and political developments in the 1990s, and discusses the ...

Analysing nine movies taking part in Zeki Demirkubuz filmography through focusing on the relationship between space and time, this study examines spaces the director constructs in relation to characters. The spaces, ...

In this study, in an attempt to evaluate new media literacy studies that actors of European Union and Turkey have been conducting, contents, scopes and dispositions of the related studies were revealed. Descriptive content ...

This thesis prepared to evaluate the qualitative transformation of news that claims to be public discourse through concrete news samples by way of discussions of public space and public discourse. News and journalism have ...

Since the second half of 20th century, planetary-scale anthropogenic destruction of ecology brought environmental issues into the very center of political and public agenda. The media facilitates policy, community, and ...

This thesis study examines how features of algorithms that run on social networks and on the Internet affect culture and society. Algorithm which was once mainly debated in Computer Sciences has now become a topic of ...