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Analyses on Visual Comfort Conditions of Passenger Service Officers' Resting Areas at Airport Buildings
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2022) GÖKTAŞ, SEVİLAY; Manav, Banu; manav, banu
This thesis focuses on the “passenger service/ground service officer” personnel who make best operational effort in the airport sector. They spend most of the day working in shifts at the airport. During this period, the break room provided by the company to which they are affiliated can be defined as the area where daily activities, socialization and rest actions are performed. Within the scope of thesis, discusses the visual comfort parameters of the floor service officers’ break offices. The impact of this parameter on performance, employee productivity, on people’s health has been investigated. The main focus of the work was an airport in İstanbul. Three different ground service companies participated in the study. As a research method, a survey study was conducted with 25 randomly selected people from each company and a total of 75 participants. Survey results show that, there are differences that can be measured in terms of both performance and efficiency between the employees of the office that does not receive any daylight and the office employees that are homogeneously illuminated. Analyses and assessments of the results of the survey are likely to contribute to the future, both socially and economically. Improving the existing offices of employees and creating new offices are critical for the employees to be in appropriate conditions of visual comfort, while the company empowers its employees and affects their competitive position in the sector.
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Assessing Architectural Color Preference After Le Corbusier's 1931 Salubra Keyboards: a Cross Cultural Analysis
(Higher Education Press Limited Company, 2021) Manav, Banu; Manav, Banu; Juan, Serra; Gouaich, Yacine
Color preference for the interior of a bedroom of Le Corbusier's Swiss Pavilion was studied using 1931 Salubra color keyboards in a cross-cultural analysis. Results indicate that students from architecture and interior design slightly dislike or are indifferent to Le Corbusier color combinations and prefer pale and low saturated colors for interior architecture. The least preferred colors belong to green and brown hues. Scarce significant gender differences are found that follow a stereotyped tendency, with females preferring pinks, light blues and light greens, while males vivid oranges and Vermilions. Near Easterners are significantly more likely to green colors, while Western Europeans to dark greys. These data indicate that not only hue, but also value and saturation are important color features to inform preference for interior architecture.
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Assessing Changes in Turkish Public Opinion: Current Trends and Future Prospects
(International Institute of Informatics and Systemics IIIS, 2017) Baybars Hawks, Banu; Manav, Banu
It would be unfair underestimating the accumulated knowledge and efforts which target to assess public opinion on certain issues and put forward effective plans. However many of the research aiming to analyze public opinion handle the issue mostly during political election periods and they do not have much idea about the different actors and factors that would be effective in the formation of public opinion. There is only a few research done in Turkey that measures public opinion regularly. Therefore this study aims to bring together different variables who address different aspects of the issue. This research will reveal what the public thinks about current issues in Turkey and whether the recent trends have any reflections on social political and cultural structure of the country. The data collected with this research may not only provide important insights into public's opinion regarding current and potential issues in Turkey but could also guide policymakers in shaping the public policies. By doing this study regularly the author intents to contribute to social sciences literature and argues that increasing the frequency and quality of academic exchange on public opinion research would be a vital part of wider actions that could be taken on different policy measures. The outputs of this study may also encourage scholars and researchers from different fields and backgrounds to study and discuss public opinion with its complex dynamics and milieu of dimensions.
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A Country Under Siege: Reflection of Identity Crisis on the Formation of Public Opinion in Turkey
(Int Business Information Management Assoc-IBIMA, 2016) Baybars Hawks, Banu; Manav, Banu
To date academic attention in social sciences remains inadequate with regard to research and analysis of public opinion in Turkey. Most of the existing research has assessed the public opinion during political election periods. Therefore it is of great interest to find out what the public thinks about current issues in the country and how to interpret the results to be able to reveal whether they may have any reflections on social political and cultural structure of the country. The current study aims to fill this gap. The research on political and social trends in Turkish public opinion has been conducted since 2010 by Kadir Has University Turkey Research Center. The survey's objective is to reveal public opinion on the most important current issues in the country the economy terror the Kurdish Issue domestic and foreign policies the judicial system democracy and the media and social relations/life in Turkey. The data was collected via face to face interviews. The sample included 1000 respondents representative of the country's population aged 18 and above residing in the city centers of 26 cities in Turkey.
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A Design Education and Application Center To Support Creative Industries
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024) Manav, Banu; Manav, Banu
As the importance of creative industries has become widespread, creative-cultural economy policies have become a priority area worldwide. In this context, this report describes a project planned and built to develop a model for platforms that would bring together public, private, and academic institutions. It describes how this model, designed to support research and design-based work in the field of interior design, was developed. The main motivation in this project is to become an important meeting point to feed creative industries' ecosystem in Istanbul with the education-workshop-incubation model. It also aims to supply an environment of interaction for academics, design centers, entrepreneurs, and students. After one and a half years, it has become a digital and physical meeting point for university-sector representatives. An effective knowledge and technology transfer network has been set up. A scientific research project has been written and approved. In this way, the center will start to become a place for interdisciplinary design research. Scientific publications were prepared, presented at congresses, national and international panels, trainings were given, scientific publications were prepared and published, and efforts were made to increase the impact of the center on the importance of design research culture and high value-added design.
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Digital Citizenship From Below: Turkish State Versus Youtube
(Int Business Information Management Assoc-Ibima, 2018) Baybars Hawks, Banu; Akser, Ali Murat; Akser, Murat; Manav, Banu
This study aims to give a historically situated analysis of the YouTube ban as seen by Turkish internet users during the first YouTube ban period between 2007-10. The content is used from online Turkish anonymous user platform, eksi sozluk, (sour dictionary). The aim is to test whether there is a civil society response to the ban which political elites and ordinary citizens contest the necessity of access to global social media networks. The main focus of this research paper is the kinds of discourse the Turkish online community used to protest the ban during the first YouTube ban. Through a combination content analysis and discourse analysis the bloggers reactions are coded and indexed to decipher the discourse produced as an active resistance/criticism against the YouTube. The response to YouTube ban that come from Turkish internet users (from below) and was critical in times of global events effecting the usage of internet and was not silenced between these events. As long as they remained anonymous (not organized action) Turkish bloggers utilized their rights for online expression. Frequency of critical blog entries increase in times of events critical of government's YouTube ban. The response to the ban is either based on condemning it or offering ways around the ban; but not calling for united action. Anonymity of the user increases the level of criticism and participation. Finally, both the government authorities and NGOs expect individual action but demand organized corporate action
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Digital Crime and Punishment: Turkish Online Journalism Under Siege
(International Institute of Informatics and Systemics IIIS, 2012) Baybars Hawks, Banu; Manav, Banu
Turkish mass media since its beginnings in late 19th century has aimed to gain its role as the fourth estate in Turkish political scene. The freedom of press has been at the paramount of discussions since the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. Between 1980 and 2000 Turkish media grew more and more liberal and was able to express discontent publicly exercising its checks and balances function. On the other hand the conservative majority of AKP government the governing party in Turkey brought back pressures on the Turkish media since the 2000s. Digital media as the new developing platform in Turkey for expressing rights and freedoms is under siege by government as well. The government's definition of digital crime and punishment is mostly unnoticed by the average citizen but despised by the young population. This paper intends to show the invalidity of disproportionate use of punishment and illegitimate definition of cybercrime in contemporary democratic systems that target online media professionals and outline how Turkish authorities can reverse the process by adopting alternative strategies of prevention. Under this perspective it also assesses the compliance of Internet legislation and practices in Turkey with Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights as well as the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
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The Effect of Geographical Indications Over Tourism Marketing: Case of Turkey
(Int Business Information Management Assoc-IBIMA, 2018) Baybars Hawks, Banu; Manav, Banu; Kirgiz, Ayca Can
In changing and developing world conjunction competition is not only among products services or companies but also between countries and cities. We can list many traditional methods that increase competitive power in tourism and destination marketing. Countries that are looking for new ways to differentiate themselves from traditional methods have found that they should not look too far away. Today geographical indications are used as effective tools in nation-branding and in creating awareness in tourism industry. Geographical indications are marks indicating the origin of a product. These marks symbolize that a product is identified with a locality area region or country of origin with a distinctive characteristic feature reputation or other qualities. For example
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Effects of Color Cues on Eye-Hand Coordination Training With a Mirror Drawing Task in Virtual Environment
(Frontiers Media Sa, 2024) Alrubaye, Zainab; Manav, Banu; Mughrabi, Moaaz Hudhud; Batmaz, Anıl Ufuk; Manav, Banu; Batmaz, Anil Ufuk
Mirror drawing is a motor learning task that is used to evaluate and improve eye-hand coordination of users and can be implemented in immersive Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) for training purposes. In this paper, we investigated the effect of color cues on user motor performance in a mirror-drawing task between Virtual Environment (VE) and Real World (RW), with three different colors. We conducted a 5-day user study with twelve participants. The results showed that the participants made fewer errors in RW compared to VR, except for pre-training, which indicated that hardware and software limitations have detrimental effects on the motor learning of the participants across different realities. Furthermore, participants made fewer errors with the colors close to green, which is usually associated with serenity, contentment, and relaxation. According to our findings, VR headsets can be used to evaluate participants' eye-hand coordination in mirror drawing tasks to evaluate the motor-learning of participants. VE and RW training applications could benefit from our findings in order to enhance their effectiveness.
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Extrapolating Continuous Color Emotions Through Deep Learning
(Amer Physical Soc, 2020) Ram, Vishaal; Manav, Banu; Schaposnik, Laura P.; Konstantinou, Nikos; Volkan, Eliz; Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta; Manav, Banu; Jonauskaite, Domicele; Mohr, Christine
By means of an experimental dataset, we use deep learning to implement an RGB (red, green, and blue) extrapolation of emotions associated to color, and do a mathematical study of the results obtained through this neural network. In particular, we see that males (type-m individuals) typically associate a given emotion with darker colors, while females (typef individuals) associate it with brighter colors. A similar trend was observed with older people and associations to lighter colors. Moreover, through our classification matrix, we identify which colors have weak associations to emotions and which colors are typically confused with other colors.
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Extrapolating Continuous Color Emotions Through Deep Learning
(American Physical Society, 2020) Ram,V.; Manav, Banu; Schaposnik,L.P.; Konstantinou,N.; Volkan,E.; Papadatou-Pastou,M.; Manav,B.; Mohr,C.
By means of an experimental dataset, we use deep learning to implement an RGB (red, green, and blue) extrapolation of emotions associated to color, and do a mathematical study of the results obtained through this neural network. In particular, we see that males (type-m individuals) typically associate a given emotion with darker colors, while females (type-f individuals) associate it with brighter colors. A similar trend was observed with older people and associations to lighter colors. Moreover, through our classification matrix, we identify which colors have weak associations to emotions and which colors are typically confused with other colors. © 2020 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.
Framing the Russian aircraft crisis: News discourse in Turkey’s polarized media environment
(Forsnet, 2018) Özçetin, Burak; Manav, Banu
This article analyzes the way in which the downing of a Russian aircraft by a Turkish F-16 jet on 24 November 2015 was framed by pro-government (Türkiye, Yeni Akit, Yeni Şafak) and anti-government (Cumhuriyet) newspapers. Framing means selecting some aspects of a perceived reality and making them more salient in a communicating text. News frames give us definitions and identify those responsible for an event; make moral judgements; and propose solutions to problems. The analysis of the news frames utilized by four newspapers underlines the fact that in a polarized media environment news frames are highly politicized and the distinction between news frames and official discourse is frequently blurred.
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Framing the Russian Aircraft Crisis: News Discourse in Turkey's Polarized Media Environment
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2018) Özçetin, Burak; Manav, Banu
This article analyzes the way in which the downing of a Russian aircraft by a Turkish F-16 jet on 24 November 2015 was framed by pro-government (Turkiye Yeni Akit Yeni Safak) and anti-government (Cumhuriyet) newspapers. Framing means selecting some aspects of a perceived reality and making them more salient in a communicating text. News frames give us definitions and identify those responsible for an event make moral judgements, and propose solutions to problems. The analysis of the news frames utilized by four newspapers underlines the fact that in a polarized media environment news frames are highly politicized and the distinction between news frames and official discourse is frequently blurred.
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Illusion or Reality? the Balance Between Security and Freedom of Expression in the United States and Turkey
(International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, IIIS, 2016) Baybars Hawks, Banu; Manav, Banu
Censorship is no longer limited to traditional media such as print media and TV. With the invention of Internet, the impact of censorship is felt much more strongly with regard to new media related resources of information and communication. With the escalation of terrorism in the 21stcentury, the governments all around the world have begun to use terrorist incidents as the main justification in their efforts to curb freedoms. Within this context, the primary argument of the governments in regulating the media is to prevent negative effect of certain speech or expression, including the ones threatening national security. On the other hand, the counter arguments states that freedom of speech and expressions are the fundamental rights of all citizens, and therefore, people have the right to be free from governmental control that inhibits thoughts, ideas, and free expression. This paper argues that the media freedom to report on news without restriction or censorship is one of the defining qualities of a liberal democratic system and proposes to examine the restrictions on media as a form of censorship; this hence is the violation of media freedom.
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Is the Press Really Free?: the Recent Conflict Between the Government and Media in Turkey
(2011) Baybars Hawks, Banu; Manav, Banu
The history of the relationship between the press and the government dates back to the period of Ottoman Empire but became significantly strained after the foundation of the Turkish Republic. A historical and political economic analysis shows that successive governments in Turkey have found new methods to censor the media as the country's democracy moves towards consolidation. Since 2000 a familiar pressure has been brought to bear on the Turkish media from the conservative majority AKP government which has used legal economic and political-discursive means to control the flow of information thereby favoring a neo-conservative controlled and censored view of news media. This paper takes the recent cases of censorship by the Turkish government on the media as examples to argue governments in Turkey invented new methods of suppressing the press in this more liberal economic and political environment. To that end the method of inquiry includes a certain degree of historical analysis on the change in the political economy of the news media and discourse analysis of the most recent encounters between the media and the government. © Common Ground Banu Baybars Hawks All Rights Reserved.
Kurumlarda İs Etigi İlkelerinin Calisanlarin Gozunde Kurumun İtibarina Etkisi
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2015) Baskın, Hazal; Manav, Banu; Baybars Hawks, Banu
Bu calismanin amaci is etigi ilkelerinin calisanlarin kurumsal itibar algisi uzerindeki etkisinin boyutunun belirlenmesi ve bu konuda kurumlara oneriler sunulmasidir. calismanin evrenini Yapi Merkezi Ýnsaat ve Sanayi A.s. ve SK Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd. sirketi olusturmaktadir. Ýs etigi ve kurumsal itibar iliskisini olcmek amaciyla bu kurumun calisanlari ile anket calismasi yapilmis ve verilen cevaplar degerlendirilerek bir olcum yapilmistir. calisma sonucunda is etigi ve guvenilirlik algisi arasinda pozitif yonlu bir iliski tespit edilmistir. calisanlarin kuruma olan guvenilirlikleri yukseldikce is etigi ilkelerinin isleyisine olan guvenleri de yukselmektedir. Demografik olarak ise gelir duzeyi yuksek olan calisanlar kurum hakkinda daha cok bilgiye sahiptirler. Dolayisiyla gelir durumu ve kurum hakkinda bilgi sahibi olma arasinda pozitif bir iliski mevcuttur.
Kurumsal İletişimde Yeni Bir Platform Olarak Sosyal Medya Kullanımı : Üniversitelere Yönelik Bir Kurumsal İletişim Uygulaması
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2015) Silen, Duygu; Manav, Banu; Baybars Hawks, Banu
Sosyal medyanin son on yillik surecte gunluk hayatta en cok tercih edilen iletisim araclarindan birisi haline gelmesiyle birlikte onemi her gecen gun artmaktadir. Her ne kadar ag tabanli iletisim sistemleri iletisim teknolojilerindeki gelismenin bir yansimasi olarak kurumsal iletisim alaninda uzun yillardir kullanilmaya devam ediliyor olsa da sosyal aglar bazi ozellikleri ile cevrimici sitelerden farkliliklar barindirmaktadir. Bu calismada universitelerin kurumsal iletisim faaliyetlerinde sosyal medya kullaniminin rolu kullanicilarin algi ve davranislarinin sosyal medya kurumsal iletisiminin verimliligi uzerindeki etkisini performans beklentisi caba beklentisi sosyal etki ve hizlandirici kosullar olmak uzere dort faktor uzerinden degerlendirmekte kullanilan BTKK (UTAUT) modeli uygulanarak analiz edilmektedir. universite ogrencilerinin sosyal medya tabanli kurumsal iletisim davranis ve algilarini degerlendirmek uzere Kadir Has universitesi'nde egitim gormekte olan 188 ogrencinin katilimiyla bir anket calismasi gerceklestirilmistir. Bu calisma ayni zamanda universite tercihi doneminde universiteler tarafindan gerceklestirilen sosyal medya iletisiminin ogrenciler uzerindeki etkisini de arastirmaktadir. Arastirma sonucu gostermistir ki sosyal medya ogrencilerin universiteleri tarafindan yapilan kurumsal iletisim faaliyetlerini takip etmeleri ve bu aktivitelere katilimlarini saglama noktasinda olumlu sonuclar dogurmaktayken ote yandan universite oncesi donemde ogrencilerin okul secimi ile ilgili kararlari uzerinde pek etkili olmamaktadir.
Liderlik İletişimi : 7 Haziran ve 1 Kasım 2015 Seçimlerinde Ahmet Davutoğlu’nun Değerlendirilmesi
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2017) Dalşık, Ceren; Manav, Banu; Baybars Hawks, Banu
Gunumuzde iktidarin elde edilebilmesi icin basarili iletisim sureclerinin yurutulmesi gerekmektedir. Siyasi liderin secmen uzerindeki etkisi bu acidan buyuk onem tasimaktadir. ulkemizin 2015 yilinda art arda secime girmesi nedeniyle siyasi arenada yasanan degisimler sureklilik gostermistir. Secim sonuclarinda elde edilen degisiklikler gerek parti basarisi gerekse yeniden tasarlanan iletisim calismalarinin sonucu olarak gorulebilmektedir. Arastirmada Ahmet Davutoglu liderligini temel alinarak 7 Haziran ve 1 Kasim 2015 secimlerinde elde edilen sonuclar miting konusmalari uzerinden soylem analizi ile incelenmistir. Bu asamada Ahmet Davutoglu’nun miting konusmalari ve donemin icerisinde bulundugu siyasi atmosferi tanimlamak adina donem oncesi ve esnasinda yasanan siyasi olaylar belirlenmistir. calismanin ilk bolumunde genel anlamda liderlik siyasal iktidar ve Ahmet Davutoglu’nun liderligi tanimlanmistir. Ýkinci bolumunde ise Ahmet Davutoglu liderliginde gerceklesen secimlerin farkliligini ortaya koymak adina detayli incelemelerde bulunulmustur. 7 Haziran ve 1 Kasim secim kampanyalari secimlerde kullanilan logo slogan mesaj ve vaatler kampanyanin temasi kampanyanin soylemi hedef kitle secim sarkisi secim beyannamesi siyasal reklamlar ve medya kullanimi basliklariyla incelenmeye calisilmistir. Ýnceleme alani olarak Ahmet Davutoglu’nun Ýstanbul iliyle sinirlandirilan miting soylemlerine yer verilmistir. Buna ek olarak secim doneminde yasanan siyasi olaylara karsi liderin yorumlamalarina yer verilmistir. Arastirma sorusu ise “7 Haziran ve 1 Kasim 2015 secimlerinde sergilenen Ahmet Davutoglu liderligi nasil degisime ugramistir?” seklinde belirlenmistir. calismanin amaci Ahmet Davutoglu’nun liderligini yorumlamak adina bazi alanlarda arastirma yapmak ve bu alanlarda lider olarak nasil bir etki alani yarattigini secim sonuclari uzerinden yorumlamaktir. Bu arastirma farkliliklardan ve soylem degisikliklerinden yola cikarak donem kosullari ekseninde yorumlarda bulunmaktadir. Sonuc bolumunde ise donemin siyasi konjonkturunun liderlik soylemlerine yansimalari incelenmistir.
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Media and Democracy in Turkey: Toward a Model of Neoliberal Media Autocracy
(2012) Baybars Hawks, Banu; Akser, Ali Murat; Akser, Murat; Manav, Banu
This paper reveals the ways in which media autocracy operates on political, judicial, economic and discursive levels in post-2007 Turkish media. Newsmakers in Turkey currently experience five different systemic kinds of neoliberal government pressures to keep their voice down: conglomerate pressure, judicial suppression, online banishment, surveillance defamation and accreditation discrimination. The progression of restrictions on media freedom has increased in volume annually since 2007; this includes pressure on the Dogan Media Group, the YouTube ban, arrests of journalists in the Ergenekon trials, phone tapping/taping of political figures and the exclusion of all unfriendly reporters from political circles. The levels and tools of this autocracy eventually lead to certain conclusions about the qualities of this media environment: it is a historically conservative, redistributive, panoptic and discriminatory media autocracy.
(mis)communication Across the Borders: Politics Media and Public Opinion in Turkey
(International Institute of Informatics and Systemics IIIS, 2015) Baybars Hawks, Banu; Manav, Banu
During the 1990s advances in statistical and demographic analysis helped the development of an understanding of public opinion as the collective view of a defined population such as a particular demographic or ethnic group. In this view the influence of public opinion is not restricted to politics and elections. Public opinion is considered a powerful force in many other spheres such as culture fashion literature and the arts consumer spending and marketing and public relations. Attitudes and values play a crucial role in the development of public opinion. Different variables embedded in the political social and media structure of the country also have potential to make an impact on public opinion. These dynamics vary from the economics to the judicial system and democratic principles functioning in that country. On the other hand public opinion has a power to shape politics and media's priorities in reporting. The interaction among politics public opinion and media of one country can be better analyzed with the findings of public opinion research administered regularly. In Turkey the research on and analysis of public opinion are most frequent during the election times. Therefore it seems necessary to measure the public opinion more regularly to test the relationships among political public and media agendas. Accordingly the current study seeks to fill this gap. It is argued that in the absence of timely feedback from public surveys decisions and policies for improving different services and institutions functioning in the country might not achieve their expected goal. The findings of surveys may not only yield important insights into public's opinion regarding contemporary agendas of the country but also into the correlates shaping public policies. This article focuses on variables setting the current agenda in Turkey. For that purpose two surveys were carried out in December of 2014 and consecutively in April 2015 to determine the social and political trends and perceptions on gender issues in Turkey.