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Master Thesis Doing Digital News Media a Turkish-German Comparative Anthropological Study(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Tubbesing, Anna Katharina Hildegard; Kartarı, AskerThis thesis explores German and Turkish urban undergraduate students' everyday digital news media practices as these are considered to constitute an important component of contemporary media cultures. The study examines the students' active exposure to the growing ubiquity of media and communication technologies, the increase of communicative mobility, and the condition of immediacy throughout far-reaching mediatisation and digitalisation processes. Tying in with the scholarship on media, communication, and culture, this thesis aims to contribute to a better understanding of both cultural context dependency and transcultural communicative connectivity in doing digital news media. To investigate the students' productive employment of digital news media devices and services in a day-to-day environment, this binational micro-study has implemented fieldwork in two urban university campuses. Applying an ethnographic approach, qualitative data were collected using participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and ethnographic writing techniques. In addition, relevant quantitative data were obtained from recent statistical studies of social and digital news media. The descriptive and interpretive data analysis demonstrates differences, similarities and commonalities in the practices of Turkish and German urban undergraduate students in their utilisation of digital news media. This study has found the following to apply to both contexts transculturally: First, doing digital news media allows highly attractive scalability regarding spatial, temporal, linguistic and financial dimensions; second, wants and incentives for doing digital news media are generated in both personal and socio-cultural environments; third, in increasingly mediated societies practices are aligned to a diffuse media-cultural normativity evolving from rising social and institutional expectancy. These findings suggest further inquiry into three matters: A possible relation between increasing scalability of engagement with information and communication media and processes of individualisation; the socio-cultural dimension in the formation of personal wants and incentives; and the evolution of media-cultural normativities.