Gelisim News

New wave: Instagramming

The users, who increase the interaction with each other through social media, started to spend a substantial part of their time at digital environments. Especially, the interest in the Instagram that was tended by those, who wanted to express themselves with images, rises more from day to day. While the users deem the cities that they go in and around as convenient for ‘’instagramming’’, various unknown points of the cities related thereto meet with various users.

The Academic Member Dr. Sezgin Savaş of the Department of New Media and Communication of the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences of the Istanbul Gelisim University, who evaluated the Instagram that has become an important part of the lives of the people, commentated on the use of the related media especially from the images of cities.

SOCIAL MEDIA IS IMPORTANT FROM IMAGES OF CITIES!

The Academic Member Dr. Sezgin Savaş, who mentioned about the fact that the users shared important points that they visit in the city or go into in recent periods although it comes to the mind that the people in social media make sharing especially on them, kept on saying: ‘’The use of social media devices and ‘Instagram’ by masses brought them forth to turn out to be a an object of research. At the end of this tendency, however, the concept of ‘Instagrammable’ was added to the literature. From now on, the users come to think that it is something valuable to Instagramming the cities the same as they share their private lives and fields of interests. Therefore, for the management of the images of cities, the importance of the platforms such as Instagram rises as well.’’
In this respect, the city of Istanbul, many points of it are open for visits with its cultural heritage and historical background has an important position and location from the point of the Instagramming. The city, introduced by various numbers of tourists, attracts visitors from every part of the world.   

ATTENTION TO BE PAID UP TO VARIOUS SUBJECT MATTERS DURING INFORMATION TRANSFER

Not only Instagram but all social media platforms may be regarded as important from the point of view of the images of the cities.  Various platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and so on could be used in order to make certain transfers with relation to the cities. Nevertheless, Mr. Savaş, who emphasized that various platforms, based on mapping at current period through Internet, are regarded as important from the acquirement of following the individuals on the cities, further indicated that it was necessary to realize query from various aspects such as secrecy of data, digital trail, observation, consumption, identification and so on while making information transfer out of the social media.