Socio-cultural, economic and political aspects of transformation of privacy in new media: Facebook cases

Privacy that means various meaning as historically and culturally and is a disputable concept, has a lot of meanings as "The right to be alone", "Negotiating capacity for the limited conditions of social relations" and "Individual's right to control access to information about himself". Right to privacy, which is an indispensable part of human rights, is violated different ways and numerous with technological developments and new communication tools are integrated human life. Especially when considering the prevalence and domain, Internet is the most imprtant media pave the way fort his violation in this mass communication. This virtual environment that eliminates concept of time and space and puts the world into a small computer screen or smart phone, gave the promise unlimited freedom to individual. Individual also, is deceived by freedon illusion and he transfer his informations in this virtual environment without query. Individual has led to surveillance his home address, telephone number, family, identity information, private moments, inside of home and bedroom to other individuals, goverment and commercial companies. Technological opportunities that have brought the dijimodern era, deterioration in the social structure, goverment and commercial companies spy society and being and watch of people have caused transformation and loss of privacy.In this study, It is aimed to find out a change in the privacy of understanding with new media whether is being experienced or not experienced life of Turkish people. So, It was polled by survey method in November 2015- January 2016. Population of survey's study is 53 million people (30 millon Facebook users) aged 15 and over in living Turkey. Sample of study is 5000 Facebook users aged 15 and over which are selected by stratified sample method. In the part of analysis of study was found participants share at what rate private information, they was aware of surveillance at what rate by goverment and commertial companies and whether they are aware of a violation of privacy. Furthermore, It was copmared privacy sharing and demographic characteristics of the participants on the basis of different variables and It was came up with significant differences. Keywords: Privacy, New Media, Digimodernism, Surveillance, Facebook.