Melih Bayram Dede’s ‘Technology and Life’ Book questions the effects of social media on society!

Journalist Melih Bayram Dede’s book ‘Technology and Life’, in which he evaluates the technology agenda on many different topics from social media to artificial intelligence, fiber internet to the future of algorithms, meets readers. The book examines the policies and social impacts of social media companies.

Don’t go where the algorithm takes you!

Journalist Melih Bayram Dede’s book “Technology and Life” has been published by Liz Publishing. In the 126-page book, the author deals with the development of technology and its social effects in our lives. Bringing a new interpretation to these developments with different perspectives, Melih Bayram Dede draws attention to aspects of technology that have not been explained until now.

In the book, the impact of social media companies’ policies on society is questioned under topics such as ‘Don’t go where the algorithm takes you’, ‘Being a victim of perception management while searching for information’ and ‘Avarice for profit undermines privacy’.

Dark room of the digital world: Social media

The side effects of individuals’ use of social media are also discussed under titles such as ‘Trolling tendency’ and ‘Is social media free from good manners?’. The author summarizes the following views in the book: “Social media companies have become the forces that shape the memory of almost all of humanity with artificial intelligence-supported algorithms. With their opaque algorithm policies, social media companies are mentally transforming the world while deciding what to highlight and what to put in the background. .

The rules of the digital world determine our future!

Today, our opinions are determined by the content that falls into our timeline on social media. Unintended, uncontextual content shapes our judgments about an event, a subject, and a community over time, without our noticing it. These platforms, which have become social communication, life, entertainment and at the same time business tools, decide what, how and when we will do, and force billions of people to act, live and produce content in the ways they determine.”

Who will decide the truth?

Stating that the unlimited authority to remove content to be given to state institutions under the name of combating disinformation, Dede defends the following views: “In an order where only the states can decide what the truth is, ‘truth’ can become something that can be bent and twisted. This may appear as a perception management activity for the public, rather than protecting the public from disinformation. Therefore, we are faced with an open-ended mechanism. The solution is to establish a mechanism that is transparent and does not hide information from the public. Structures with unclear powers and boundaries and without transparency may set out with the claim of combating disinformation and become devices that strike a blow to the public’s freedom of information and expression.”

Who is Melih Bayram Dede?

He was born in 1970 in Gebze. He started journalism in 1993. He worked as the technology editor of Yeni Şafak newspaper between 1995-2019, editor-in-chief of yenisafak.com.tr between 2005-2012, and producer and presenter of the TechnoLogic program of TVNET television between 2006-2011. In 2001, he founded and managed the culture, art and literature portal, Dergibi, which was awarded the “Electronic Publishing Award” by the Writers Union of Turkey. With his newspaper articles, he received the Turkcell Special Award from the Economy Journalists Association in 2012 and the “2012 Informatics Writer of the Year Award” from the Telecoms Association. Dede, who always has a Press Card, is a member of the Information Media Association and Kocaeli Journalists’ Association. Dede, who has been writing technology-oriented columns in the newspaper Diriliş Postası since 2022, has another book called ‘Internet’ published by Insan Publishing in 2004.