Representation of media intellectual on new media

This thesis with the title of "Represantation of Media Intellectual On New Media'' discusses on Cüneyt Özdemir who implements the media/journalism techniques to the new media environment, and addresses the ways that Özdemir uses the new media platforms in a certain sense of intellectual and new media, and explains how the intellectual is being represented on new media. To start with, transformation of the traditional intellectual definition is examined based on historical background and conceptualizations regarding the intellectual individuals are reviewed and new environments which new media created were appraised. Moreover with the purpose of examining the representation of intellectual on new Media, 5 different platform such as, Web pages, Facebook pages, Youtube, Twitter and Instagram accounts were followed up and analyzed with content analyze method to find out the ways that he uses these channels. The contents which was produced by Özdemir on social media and new media platforms are evaluated with the content analyze method as a systematic, subjective and quantitative research technique and especially tried to be spotlighted "which channel was the most used one" and number of the contents as well as the interactions based on content is probed. Upon Özdemir's request, the questions which were directed to the 5N1K crew and the answers received as well as the numeric data made it possible to analyze the results of this extensive research. The results of the research reveals that the emergent new media as an alternative to the traditional media allows the contemporary intellectuals to create a wider space for themselves owing to new media's specifications. According to all of these, the results show us that by using the new media platforms it is possible to produce content with minimum amount of censorship, minimize the time that passes between publishing the content and the event occurred, and maximize the interaction receiving from the public. Also another result which draws attention is oppositional identity which is imputed to the intellectuals are being displayed more actively on new media platforms.