EMU Gündem

16/10/2024

📌Eastern Mediterranean University Students Said Stop to Violence Against Women...
Reporter Alina Klycheva
Camera - Editing: Hazar Boraer .boraer

16/10/2024

INSPIRING STORY OF A YOUNG AUTHOR: “KIM’S GARAGE”
📌Themba Lefika Dewah, a student in the Cinema and TV Department at the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), takes readers on a profound journey with his book Kim’s Garage,
📌Themba, a young man who struggled with financial difficulties during his high school years, managed to find his way thanks to his deep passion for music. In his book, he candidly shares how music became a transformative force in his life, guiding him out of chaos. This inspiring book, especially for students and young adults, serves as a reminder to hold onto hope even in the toughest of times. In Kim’s Garage, the author https://www.lul.c/shop/lefika-moyo/kims-gara/ebook/product-jen8.htm.
Excerpt from the book:
"The delusional person seeks solace in everything unrelated to reality and finds fear in a world full of truths."
Reporter: Sude Şengürle

20/05/2024

📌Memories of the Visor: Colorful Moments from Eastern Mediterranean University's 26th Spring Festival Parade
📌Photo credits: Hazar Boraer

08/05/2024

📌All invated...

08/05/2024

30/04/2024

📌The award-winning documentary "CMC Mine Wastes," which had its first screening in Lefke, will meet viewers at 3:30 PM on May 9th at the Purple Hall (M007) of EMU Faculty of Communication and Media Studies. (The documentary has English subtitles).
📌The screening is dedicated to the memory of Hüseyin Tiremeşeli, a former miner at CMC whose life was recently lost and who is also featured in the documentary.
📌All invited

11/04/2024

📌All invated! / 13 April in Famagusta - Bandabuliya - Walled City (Old Town): Famagusta New Museum Festival Day

03/04/2024

02/04/2024

Kaarle Nordenstreng, PhD from the University of Helsinki (1969) is Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Communication at Tampere University (Finland). He has been Vice-President of the International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR, 1972-88) and President of the International Organization of Journalists (IOJ, 1976-90). His research has focused on communication theory, international communication, and media policies. He has written or edited about 90 books and published over 200 articles in journals and anthologies. More at https://sites.tuni.fi/kaarle/ He came to Cyprus as a young journalist in the 1960s. Kaarle interviewed leading names such as Carl Gustav Jung, Marshall McLuhan and Alvin Toffler.

02/04/2024

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Mashoed Bailie is a senior associate professor of media studies currently serving as a faculty member in the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University. With an academic career spanning more than three decades, Dr. Bailie has contributed to the field of critical media studies through both research and publishing, as well as critical media pedagogy. Throughout his extensive teaching career, Dr. Bailie's research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, edited books, and book chapters with the goal of raising significant questions concerning the role of media in democratic life. Dr. Bailie has focused his pedagogical and research interests on critical media studies in areas that include media literacy, media and democratic society, gender, ethnicity and the media, and the increasingly crucial area of critical media research and the Anthropocene.

13/03/2024

📌EMU Faculty of Communication and Media Studies Department of Public Relations and Advertising, under the umbrella of EMU Community Involvement Center, organized a workshop titled "Are You Ready to Build Life Skills from Difficulties?"
📌The event, which took place with the contributions of Chair of EMU / DAÜ PDRAM Psych. Fatoş Özeylem Küçük , Psych. Çise Haşimoğulları, and Psych. Yaprak Parlan from EMU PDRAM, was held in two sessions in Turkish and English.

12/03/2024

09/01/2024

📌Video Games are Art; Their Evolution is the Proof
📌Author: Aslı Nur Çakır
Video games might be seen as more of a sport for some people, having only watched eSports tournaments on TV or media. But eSports are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the wide range capacity of video games. Staring from a blank page, games can take any meaning and shape, paving the way for many genres. They can either fill your soul with awide range of emotions through their storytelling, or they can let your anger or sadness flow away just like art.
With these correlations, the evolution of video games seeming almost identical to the arts is observable. However, the evolution of video games is incredibly faster due to its connection to the evolution of technology and the teamwork of developers, combined with hungry gamers looking for more content to devour in the next weeks or years. Thus, this situation may lead to a prophecy, where we can find out where the evolution of art is heading to.
📌Evolution of Art and Video Games
Video Games, like art, started from just a few lines and dots. The only difference being that art’s purpose was to convey a message when it was first created. Although in later years, video games were utilized to project certain ideas, and even propaganda, their initial beginnings aimed at simple entertainment.
Throughout the years, video games have gone through the same treatment as art, without our noticing... Pixelated masterpieces that fuel your soul with nostalgia… Eye candies with deep stories that can make you cry for hours on end and bind your emotions to fictional characters… Meaningless simulations to prove that anything can be a video game…
If any of these sounded familiar, that is because the thoughts behind the games were the same as the thoughts in art. Just like in art, there is the product, the maker, and the consumer. The maker must always listen to the consumer’s opinions and criticisms, and if they don’t, their product will fail to sell and be more of a loss than a gain. This is what the majority have always thought about art and video games and they have both been proven wrong by developers and artists alike, contributing to their new era.
And just like art, video games have become soulless cash-grabs in the latest years. With their never-ending series, hidden paywalls hiding the most basic things, and thousands of advertisements sprinkled around them, with their pricey additional content that was there from day one. The abuse of hardly-paid game developers to reach unbelievable and sometimes impossible deadlines, leading to unfinished and unpolished games, just for a few quick bucks and a million hateful comments, in order to fuel money hungry companies.
The evolution of art has taken thousands of years to reach where they are now, for video games it took only a few decades to catch up with art’s eras. This tells us that video games has the chance of evolving faster than art, and even showing us where art may lead.
📌We are Entering a New Era
With the release of Baldur’s Gate III, all hell broke loose in the video gaming community, and a new era has begun. With Baldur’s Gate III’s immersive and complete story-telling, countless ways to interact and play with the characters, within a beautiful setting and an amazing cast of talented actors, players can enjoy all this included within a price of $60 on Steam. This new edition has broken every “tradition” that has been put out by the game company giants, unleashing panic among them.
Many game developers from the triple A gaming industry have been warning gamers to not raise their standards for other games to reach Baldur’s Gate III’s potential. Yet they refuse to reach it themselves, fearing more abuse coming from other companies. Within this chaos, one thing is certain for all people, video gaming will never be the same after this year. This fact and the correlation between the art industry is leading us to an inevitable conclusion that the rest of the art world will soon face the same chaos among the consumers and artists alike.
One day, a masterpiece so great shall be done and it will be so groundbreaking and controversial, that it will make every consumer worldwide question the artist behind the canvas. It will bring a new era, will it be good or bad, time will tell. The first cracks are appearing in the animation industry already, but with Baldur’s Gate III’s release panic, it has become certain. We welcome the dawn of a new artistic era, with a video game masterpiece.

09/01/2024

SENIOR JOURNALIST AND ACADEMIC LOUIS JACOBSON GAVE A SEMINAR IN EMU FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION

Louis Jacobson, a distinguished reporter and academic, gave a seminar at the Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) Faculty of Communication. During the seminar, themed around "Political Communication and the Oversight of Political Facts in the Media," and organised by EMU Department of New Media and Communication, Jacobson focused on topics such as media literacy, journalistic integrity, and techniques for identifying misinformation.

As an esteemed journalist and editor at the American media platform PolitiFact, specializing in combatting false information on social media, Jacobson shared insights from his professional endeavours and scholarly research focused on managing the portrayal of political realities in media. He emphasized the distinction between misinformation and disinformation, advising attendees to ensure they avoid contributing to the spread of false information before sharing content on social platforms. Jacobson concluded the seminar by addressing various questions from the audience, particularly concerning tools available to authenticate political news accuracy.

Who is Louis Jacobson?
Louis Jacobson is an expert in media literacy, integrity in journalism, and identifying disinformation identified by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. He is a senior correspondence with PolitiFact, a media organization that fact-checks statements in politics and misinformation in social media, where he has worked since 2009. Jacobson has been teaching students how to produce fact-checks at West Virginia University's Reed College of Media since 2018, and as a visiting scholar at St. Bonaventure University's Jandoli School of Communication since 2020.

Previously, he served as deputy editor of Roll Call and as founding editor of its legislative wire service, CongressNow. Earlier, he spent more than a decade covering politics, policy, Congress and lobbying for National Journal magazine. He is senior author of the 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024 editions of The Almanac of American Politics. He also contributed to the 2000 and 2004 editions of the Almanac. Since 2004, Jacobson has been writing a column on politics in the states, which has run in Roll Call, Stateline.org, Governing, and the Cook Political Report. He now divides the column between Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics and U.S. News and World Report. Earlier in his career, he wrote on science for the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Science magazine. He received the Weidenbaum Center Award for Evidence-Based Journalism from Washington University in St. Louis in 2014, and in 2016 and 2022, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers gave him a Best in Business award for his economics coverage.

26/10/2023

📌We pointed our microphone to to hear about artificial intelligence (AI) and art.
📌Reporter: Aslı Nur Çakır
📌Camera: Mertcan Öncan

20/10/2023

📌Palestinian Solidarity March in EMU
📌The data in the reportage is relevant to 15th of October.
📌Update: According to officials the number of people killed in the current war exceeded 5 thousand people from both sides. / Source: Al-Jazeera
📌Reporter: Alina Klycheva
📌Camera: Evelyn Kishawi

13/07/2023

📌EMU 2022 - 2023 Spring Semester Graduation Excitement
📌Reporter: Plestia AlAqad

13/07/2023

📌Freedom of Press
📌Guest: Aysu Basri Akter - Freelance Journalist & EMU's Instructor
📌Reporter: Alina Klycheva
📌Please click on the link below for the full interview
📌 https://gundem.emu.edu.tr/en/