Altındağ Municipality hosted another important event. Altındağ Mayor Dr. Hosted by Veysel Tiryaki, the "Digital World and Social Media Usage" panel was held by the Internet Media Union Association (İMEB) and the Turkish Press Federation. The program was attended by Turkish Press Federation Chairman Sinan Burhan, Academician Prof. Dr. Zakir Avşar, Journalist writer Emin Pazarcı, Journalist writer Zafer Şahin, Journalist Fatih Atik, Content producer İsmail Halis and many young social media users attended. Speakers discussed the new media order, digital publishing, artificial intelligence, internet media, social media use, disinformation, change in media and media literacy. The program, which attracted the attention of young people from Altındağ, was greatly appreciated.
“ YOUTH FROM ALTINTAGI WILL LEARN A LOT FROM THIS PANEL”
Stating that they are happy to host the program, Altındağ Mayor Dr. Veysel Tiryaki said, "It was very difficult to even access the newspaper when I was a child. I wanted to be a journalist. I worked hard for this. I even published a newspaper and wrote articles. That's why I care about these issues very much and follow the point reached today with interest."
"We have to take responsibility wherever we think it will be beneficial to society," said Mayor Tiryaki, adding, "I know that the young friends who attended here today are very interested in these issues and I believe that they will learn a lot from this panel."
The program continued with the speeches of the panelists. The panelists touched upon important issues such as the current state of the media world, social media and the difficulty of controls in these media, the effects of the development of technology on the media world, disinformation on social media and the fight against it, what young people should pay attention to when using social media and the internet, supervision in social media, protection from bad content, and also gave important advice to young people about the safe use of social media.