New Era

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The world is becoming digital in every aspect. It is observed that
technological developments have existed in almost every era of human
history, and these developments continue unabated. This virtual reality
immerses us in every aspect of our life. The new media, which is
developing with the Internet and developing technology, has started to
experience a social transformation and affects individuals of all ages and
all walks of life through this process.
New media can be defined as ”environments that direct existing
media in general to transform them interactively into digital data
and provide production, distribution and sharing through computers"
(Manovich, 2001). Radio, television, newspaper, etc. in addition to
mass media such as mass media, Internet technology and mobile
technologies, which enable the formation of the new media age,
have a very important position.
Nowadays, many of us now prefer our virtual space even in a public
area where we go out for coffee with our friends, and we have
become more likely to spend time with our phones than chatting.
Public spaces have now become a place where we enter our virtual
public space with the coffee we collect and buy for us. We are
there, but our mind is not there.