
COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS – CTC 2017
The commencement of the digital age along with the rapid development of information technologies in the 21st century has led it to be defined as the age of information, where the boundaries between place and time no longer exist. It has become increasingly difficult to define what McLuhan has coined as the “global village”, a village based on communication where cultural structures are founded on technology, and constructed through differing codes. In other words, despite the fact that images, which are the most important carriers of technological culture, can transcend all kinds of barriers, individuals living in different cultures and societies perceive and understand these images in completely distinctive ways. Furthermore, it is important to ask the question of whether the process of communication brings along with it “technology”.
The term communication no doubt includes fashion, painting, textile, sculpture, all kinds of architecture, industrial and graphic design, advertising, popular culture, photograph, and mass media tools such as film, and television, as well as other products such as computer games, webpages, and newspaper and magazine design. So how are the messages created in these areas perceived? In terms of communication, what are the good and bad aspects of “technology”? How is society influenced by the “change”, “transformation” and “conversion” occurring in communication? Do McLuhan’s “technological determinism”, the “hyperreality” and the notion that all images morph into the imaginary of Jean Baudrillard’s “Simulacra and Simulation”, M. Castells concept of “network society” and the now very popular term of “social media” have anything in common? If we look at it more generally, what are the new approaches that have emerged in the components of communication – due to the process of technology?
CTC 2017 (Communication and Technology Congress) will take place 22-23 November 2017. The Congress will bring together academics and professionals coming from different fields to discuss their differing point of views on these questions related to “Communication” while referring to “technology”.

Communication and Technology Congress
(10.7456/ctc_2017)
CHAIRMAN OF THE CONGRESS ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Prof.Dr. Özden Çankaya, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
GENERAL COORDINATORS OF THE CONGRESS ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Prof.Dr. Hülya Yengin, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Deniz Yengin, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Prof.Dr. Atilla Girgin, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. Cem Sütçü, Marmara University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. Donald L. Shaw, University of North Carolina, U.S.A.
Prof.Dr. Douglas Kellner, UCLA University, U.S.A.
Prof.Dr. Filiz Balta Peltekoğlu, Marmara University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. H.Hale Künüçen, Başkent University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. Haluk Gürgen, Bahçeşehir University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. Hülya Yengin, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, Liege University, Belgium
Prof.Dr. Judith K. Litterst, St. Cloud State University, U.S.A.
Prof.Dr. Korkmaz Alemdar, Atılım University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. Lev Manovich, University of California, U.S.A.
Prof.Dr. Lucie Bader Egloff, Zurich University, Switzerland
Prof.Dr. Maxwell E. McCombs, University of Texas, U.S.A.
Prof.Dr. Nazife Güngör, Üsküdar University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. Özden Çankaya, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. Uğur Demiray, Anadolu University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. Ümit Atabek, Yaşar University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu, Galatasaray University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. Zafer Ertürk, Işık University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. Özer Kanburoğlu, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. Mehmet Üstünipek, İstanbul Kültür University, Turkey
Prof.Dr. Banu Manav, Ayvansaray University, Turkey
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Deniz Yengin, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
Assoc.Prof.Dr. And Algül, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
Asist.Prof.Dr. Gökmen Hakan Karadağ, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Deniz Yengin, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
Assoc.Prof.Dr. And Algül, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
Asist.Prof.Dr. Gökmen Hakan Karadağ, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
Rsc.Ass. Tamer Bayrak, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
Elif Tuba Tezcan, İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey
Call For Papers
CTC will bring together academics and professionals coming from different fields to discuss their differing points of views on these questions related to “Communication and Technology”.
Main Topics Of CTC
- Social Sciences (Communication Studies, researches, applied studies)
- New Media (web 2.0, web 3.0, interactivity, convergence, virtuality, social media, etc.)
- Digital Arts (cinema, television, photograph, illustration, kinetic, graphics etc.)
- Digital Society (E-community, surveillance society, network society, etc.)
- Communication Arts (advertising, public relation, marketing, etc.)
- Mass Communication (Television, radio, newspaper, etc.)
- Technology
Language Of CTC
Turkish and English
CTC Dates
22-23 November 2017
CTC Venue
İstanbul Aydın University
Contact CTC 2017
Coordinator
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Deniz YENGİN
Assoc.Prof.Dr. And ALGÜL
Associate Coordinator
Rsc.Ast. Tamer BAYRAK