Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) Communication Faculty, New Media and Journalism Department organized a High Honor and Honor certificate ceremony for students who demonstrated outstanding success during the 2016 – 2017 Academic Year, Spring Semester.
The event, that took place in the Faculty of Communication, was attended by students as well as the academic staff members. During the opening speech by New Media and Journalism Department Chair Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nurten Kara, Kara congratulated all the students who received a certificate and stated that Department of New Media and Journalism will offer education in English language in the near future. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nurten Kara also touched on the following:
Journalism is integrated with New Media
Contrary to the beliefs on journalism facing extinction because of the spread of internet use in today’s digital era, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kara emphasized that the relation between two notions is rather of a harmony. During the speech, Kara stated that “Journalism is not becoming extinct; on the contrary it is getting integrated with the New Media. Creating new content in today’s digital world, where the internet has spread into many aspects of people’s lives, is very important. Creating content/text is one of the most important components of journalism. Therefore, we reformed our educational content with courses that will contribute to the field of “New Media and Journalism””.
Faculty-Sector Meetings Continue
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kara mentioned that they will continue to bring together the students with experts in the field. Moreover, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kara also added; “Faculty-sector meetings are going to continue in the upcoming days. In this context, we as a department will bring you together with T24 Chief Editor Doğan Akın known with his successful work in the field of independent internet journalism on the 8th of December, Cumhuriyet Newspaper Website Chief Editor Oğuz Güven, who will share his knowledge and experiences on the 11th of December and finally, young journalists from both North and South of Cyprus whom will share their experiences on Peace Journalism on the 21st of December”.
EMU Communication Faculty, Department of New Media and Journalism student , who has got the first place with his project “Dedebiyat” in Social Media category in TRT Young Communicators Competition, delivered a presentation. Hasan Doğan thanked the project advisor and research assistant Sertaç Özdemir and also EMU Communication Faculty, New Media and Journalism Department Academic staff member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hanife Aliefenioğlu for accompanying him during the award ceremony in Ankara. During his own speech, Doğan stated that a critical approach on “click bait” was applied in “Dedebiyat” project. He also said; “We started out on books. We put some quotations from books for the readers under various topics by using “click bait” method”.
Event ended with a movie show called “Citizenfour” after all the successful students received their Honor/High Honor certificates and gifts.