Social Networking Sites (SNS), particularly Facebook (FB) have become extremely popular among digital natives, especially university-level students. Moreover, they sometimes may see social networks as an extension of their lives (boyd, 2014) which can be called as a new communication platform for interpersonal communication. For the purpose of the study, interpersonal communication skills (ICS) levels explored in four sub-sections both in the social and e-social environments.1 Digital natives’ IPC skills were measured to figure out whether there is any statistically difference between both environments. Interpersonal Communication Skills Inventory (Social Learning, 2002) is used as an instrument for the present study.

Because of the development of communication technologies, some concepts particularly related to social sciences require to be redefined and renegotiated. The field of psychology is one of these social sciences, which has had its share from this progress. The emergence of new places for interaction and new aspects of socialization has resulted in varied factors influencing social identity construction. Academic associates are increasingly focusing on social network sites (SNSs), as one of such “spaces” . Thus, most particularly, students of psychology-based departments have importance as they are the intended psychologists and psychological counsellors. Hence, for the purpose of the study, resistance of psychology students to Facebook, as a sort of social media, is measured by using Bergen’s Facebook addiction scale (BFAS). DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n8p456

New media are increasingly providing spaces and opportunities for media houses and activist groups engaged in socio-political reform in Africa. In Nigeria, social media are becoming platforms for communicating messages of resistance against oppressive political and exploitative economic power structures. This study analyzed Ogas at the top (OATT), an online puppetry series by Buni TV, as a way of examining new platforms and message content in Nigeria’s rapidly changing media sphere. Relying on semiotics and critical discourse analysis perspectives, the study analyzed select episodes of the series, to gauge how producers constructed powerful visual and linguistic messages to boldly satirize social injustices perpetrated by Nigeria’s political elites.

As is known, various studies on the history and development of cinema have shown the reciprocal relationship between cinema and politics. In this regards, it is possible to assume that Hollywood cinema, is not the only cinema that draws attention. During the study, for the purposes of clarifying the interrelationship between “representation” and “ideology” as a modus operandi of Turkish cinema, the portrayal of Atatürk in “Mustafa” will be investigated. The main reason for analyzing this movie in particular it that it is one of the most widely criticized (ideologically) movies on Atatürk.

Cinema is in close touch with ideology as such in correlating with many conditions in society. As is known, the relation between ideology and cinema has become subject of several studies. In this context, it is possible to assume that Holywood cinema is not only the attention-grabbing cinema. In the scope of this study, "The Ottoman Republic" movie will be discussed with intent to enlighten the relation between ''the representation'' and ''the ideology'' of Osmanlı theme which is one of the frequently referenced subjects in Turkish cinema. A place will be given to the ideological solution through the aesthetic factors that used in the movie.