Eleven Eleven VR: Virtual Reality, Digital Narrative, and Interaction
Dönmez, Servet Can | Yegen, Ceren
Stories and events that are not worth telling or do not have access to the necessary media cannot even get lost from the dusty pages of history because they cannot enter those pages at all. Historical records became the books with the invention of the printing press, and in time, the term “dusty pages” was used as the approach made on these books. Nowadays, these dusty pages are replaced by obsolete codes or graphics. Today, the narrative and the story, which has become completely digital, have different means of expression. “Virtual reality” narratives, which is one of the new generation tools used by digital storytelling, have become more common. The virtual reality content that transforms the codes and forms of the traditional narrative with its own means and approach brings the ...
The Use of Corpus in Analysis of News in Digital Media
Arslan, Erhan | Arslan, Berna | Sezer, Taner
e technological developments that transform our era have created the informa tion society. ese technological innovations allowed people to access unlimited information, made collecting and processing massive data and the analyzing news over it possible. also have changed the journalistic practices. is e media-mediated news are also ideological discourses rebuilt by media professionals. Media is an area of research that needs to be ana lyzed in di erent ways as it is an important tool to rebuild the news and it has the power of guidance. e analysis of the news, which is also the memory of history, provides the visibility of the linguistic structure and ideological discourse used. Corpus based studies over these huge data allows ease of access to reach comprehensive and systematic data. As ...
360-Degree Video News Reporting
Dönmez, Servet Can | Ünal, Recep
Virtual reality (VR) and 360-degree video technologies have introduced a transformative paradigm in news production and consumption. This study explores the evolution of VR and 360-degree video within the context of journalism, defining 360-degree video as the fundamental entry point into "the real without reality." While these technologies offer immersive storytelling opportunities that enhance the audience’s sense of presence, they also bring forth significant ethical challenges, including potential mental manipulation and the distortion of news meaning through sensory enhancements. By evaluating the opportunities and limitations of these immersive tools, this research specifically analyzes The New York Times’ "The Daily 360" project as a primary case study to illustrate the practical ap...
Turkish Adolescents’ Embodiment of the Metaphor Love Is A Journey and Its Culture Specific Manifestations in Their Language Use
Muhammet Fatih Adıgüzel
The purpose of the study is to explore the extent of Turkish adolescents’ embodiment of the universal conceptual metaphor love is a journey and their culture-specific reflection of the metaphor in their use of Turkish. The metaphor is approached in the study within the framework of Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) conceptual metaphor theory. According to the theory, perceived resemblances between certain components of the target concept love and those of the source concept journey are the underlying cognitive motivation that allows the former to be conceptualized in terms of the latter. This study investigates the Turkish adolescents’ embodiment and linguistic manifestations of the metaphor love is a journey in the 87 compositions comparing a love relationship to a journey that were written...