Is Turkey part of Europe or Middle East?

I think this is one of the issues that lots of people argue about. I will elucidate this topic according to the fact that where Turkish citizens think to belong to in. According to the Europe, Turkey belongs to Middle East; according to the Middle East…

„My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.”

Print Media vs. Online Media

Breakfast. The best time of the day. There is nothing better than having a nice full english breakfast with a cup of fresh brewed coffee, a glass of fruity orange Juice and- a mobile phone? Hold on, something is wrong. Ah, yeah right. Where is the good old-fashioned newspaper?

mass media influences us!

In the 50 years the influence of news media on society has grown constantly with the growing technology. First…

Social Media vs Reality

Let’s be honest, social media and the way one can present himself is awesome. You want to update your profile picture? Well I guess one or two filters never hurt nobody. 
If you follow a lot of famous persons, bloggers or just “inspiring” people on Instagram for example, most of the…

Popular culture and consuming…

Well, actually there are lots of topics to write about on this blog but in my first post I want to…

Is investigative journalism dead? No, but it’s changing.

I was recently thinking about the state of journalism and what constitutes good and bad journalism. One of the good things that came to mind was investigative journalism and its impact on society.

Self-staging on Instagram

In today’s society the Social Media become more and more important. Almost everybody by today has had some kind of contact with Social Media or has even created an account on at least one of the platforms. People use them to send out posts to not only keep their followers and…

“Engrish” in the Media — Grave Mistake or Clever Marketing?

The future of print media

Last week we had an intense discussion on the future of print media. We realized that their sales are dropping every year by huge numbers for about a decade now. Clearly, print media has no future and the question is why? And how to fix this problem.