What do Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma" Oscar wins mean for the future of the Cinema and how Netflix has changed the film market landscape? This is undoubtedly a first in the modern film industry that is changing rapidly and strives to adapt to the existing logic of international distribution. Roma, Alfonso Cuaron’s latest movie is a … Continue reading Will streaming change Cinema? →

Twenty years have passed since a software engineer, Reed Hastings, paid a late fee of 40$ for “Apollo 13” in his local video club. That incident triggered a wild idea that would completely change the entertainment industry as we knew it. In 1997, two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph, founded Netflix, an … Continue reading Netflixed →

The self-publishing capabilities of Web 2.0 transformed the internet into a ubiquitous interface for communication and enabled the formation of virtual communities. Generally speaking, virtual communities consist of individuals who exchange common interests, thoughts or feelings online in order to achieve personal or shared goals by performing in various activities and practices including participation, creativity, … Continue reading Virtual Communities. What motivates us to participate? →

https://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-social-wellbeing-20150606-story.html In today’s politically and digitally polarized environment, governments and powerful organizations take advantage of the restructuring of society’s daily life by digital media and deliberately misuse those technologies for profit generation.  They monitor, control and surveil online communications and exchange this information to fulfill their commercial or political purposes. However, this ethical challenge opposes … Continue reading Destructive Use of Digital Media-Challenges for the Youth and Digital Ethics →

The emergence and growth of social networking sites has drawn the attention of researchers, since SNSs have captivated hundreds of millions of users on an international level and have managed to become an integrated part of the users’ daily lives. However, research findings indicate that the primary audience of such sites is gradually increasing its … Continue reading Social Networking Sites Addiction →