{"id":15027,"date":"2026-01-04T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akun.edu.tr\/uncategorized\/is-social-media-an-angel-or-a-devil\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:41:40","slug":"is-social-media-an-angel-or-a-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akun.edu.tr\/en\/faculty-speaks\/is-social-media-an-angel-or-a-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Social Media an Angel or a Devil?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The other day, a friend called me in a slightly reproachful tone and said, \u201cBrother, you don\u2019t like the things I post on Instagram.\u201d <\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWhile he was right to feel that way, I told him that I simply don\u2019t have much time to spend on social media.\u201d <\/p>\n\n<p>Grown adults are almost assuming the identity of small children, worrying about who liked what and how much; showing themselves off while going to clubs or discos, displaying the splendor of their tables while eating, even sharing what they wear and what they drink\u2014becoming consumed by these new habits.<br \/><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Is social media an angel or a devil? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>On January 5, 2026, we will be hosting two wonderful professors\u2014true experts on these very topics\u2014at <strong>University of Mediterranean Karpasia<\/strong>. <strong>Prof. Dr. Ece Baban, Dean of the Faculty of Communication at Beykent University<\/strong>, and <strong>Prof. Dr. Ebru G\u00fczel<\/strong>, a faculty member from the same university, will explain to us the point social media has reached in our lives. <\/p>\n\n<p>Even people who share the same home choose to spend time on their mobile phones instead of talking to one another. This is where we have arrived. The most important question awaiting an answer is: is social media an angel or a devil?   <\/p>\n\n<p>For some of us, it is an angel; for others, a devil.<\/p>\n\n<p>You can read the rest of the article by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diyaloggazetesi.com\/sosyal-medya-melek-mi-seytan-mi-makale,14241.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, a friend called me in a slightly reproachful tone and said, \u201cBrother, you don\u2019t like the things I post on Instagram.\u201d \u201cWhile he was right to feel that way, I told him that I simply don\u2019t have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-speaks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akun.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akun.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akun.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akun.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akun.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/akun.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15518,"href":"https:\/\/akun.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15027\/revisions\/15518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akun.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akun.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akun.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akun.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}