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With the social areas, the individual can now share about himself with other people. Instagram, which is one of the most used social media channels, is attractive in terms of self-presentation to the individual with its shares. Accounts with many followers, which are described as Influencers on Instagram, where the individual shares posts about himself with various visual posts, attract the attention of individuals. Influencers, who are seen as influential by their followers and are a kind of opinion leaders, have an impact on their followers with their shares. Influencers, they are effective in their self-presentations. In this study, it was tried to determine the effect of influencers on self-presentation of university students on Instagram. This aim, the universe of the study consisted of students of Abant İzzet Baysal University and the sample based on the of Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University Communication Faculty students who participated the interview. Focus group interview was preferred as the data collection technique in the study. As a result of the research, it has been determined that the majority of the participants, the influencers they follow on Instagram have no effect on their identity and self-presentation, and they aim to use the information they learned from the influencers in their social media and daily lives. While reflecting the influence of the participants on their own posts, they only benefited from visual materials; It has been understood that their own likes are at the forefront rather than the concerns of likes and popularity in their posts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the main areas of interest of communication studies is that children, who are the most innocent consumers of the media, are affected by the media messages. Despite the presence of television content that appeals to children, the fact that children can also access media content for adults causes this situation to be handled within the framework of more concern. Adult content can be quite dangerous for children who accept the visuals they watch without questioning them without filtering the reality. In this study, it is aimed to reveal the projections of the COVID-19 epidemic process in the minds of children, which emerged in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019, affected the whole world in a short time and caused the declaration of a global epidemic on March 11,2020. The pictures made by the children were analyzed within the framework of the prominent themes. The most important result of the study is that the pictures made by the most of 112 children (110) were shaped around negative themes. In addition, it was observed that 39.2% of the children portrayed the virus subject as the most prominent element, and it was observed that the longing for play and social life were among the prominent themes. Another important result obtained in the study is that some of the prominent themes differ according to the gender of the children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the introduction of mass media in our lives, numerous researches that it influences the individual shave begun to take place in the literatüre. The critism that the media has a unilateral influence and that individuals are exposed to this influence has begun to change direction with the social media. The social media defined as salvation for some people, as the only way for democracy for others, even as there surrection of media has introduced a completely different way of agenda setting in to the literature this time. This is the way social media determines the agenda of social media. There searches for agenda setting has started to investigate this topic and the debates that social media has set the agenda for traditional means of communication have gained speed. In this study, the influence of Twitter, which is accepted as a channel for news, on the media agenda was investigated in the context of the example of "Banning of Marriage Programmes". As a result of the study, it was determined that Twitter sets the agenda of the traditional media on the axis of the example of Marriage Programmes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]