Citizen journalism consists of people formerly known as ‘’the audience’’ where individuals do what professional reporters do; collect, report, analyze and spread information. In these days, new media such as podcasts, blogs and social networking websites have been making citizen journalism a popular trend. Especially online websites such as Facebook and Twitter create an online [...]

Journalism’s one of the main golden rules is timeliness and it is very effective in the street journalism. It is a fact that journalists not always can be present when incidents or disasters strike. However, with street journalism people are enabled to learn the latest events instantly. With the rising use of social media and [...]

May 9 was just like another day where a group of students were observed using Facebook at school’s IT room. It is normally forbidden to enter social websites like Facebook or Twitter even in IT lessons at Açı, just like many other private schools. But it seems like students do not go along with these [...]

Especially in the East part of Turkey, there are many schools, which even do not have any tables or chairs. With these hard conditions, students still fight for learning new things and looking for their future. It is very impressing to see many children in these poor public schools, looking for a piece of paper [...]

There is certainly a different mentality in China, especially opposed to the West when it comes to issues of what is considered private versus public. Tim Clissold notes that the Chinese don’t have a word for “privacy”. When China’s vice president, Xi Jinping, visited the White House on February 21, President Obama renewed calls for [...]

Interviewee: Angelica Vedana Interviewer: Sandra Özromano 1) What is your average weekday and weekend like? – How many hours per day do you go to school? I go to school 6 hours per day – How many hours of homework do you have on weekdays & weekends? On weekdays and weekends I have 3 hours [...]

Women and men have always had conflicting and comparable differences since the beginning of time. Natural characteristics of both sexes (physical or mental) have always been quite different. In today’s world, women and men are gaining the same amount of power, while in the past, men were the only holders of power. Also, only they had [...]