Cyber Culture and Social Effects of Cyber Culture

The culture, which has survived with the transfer of life styles of societies for centuries to the next generations, undoubtedly has undergone many changes from the moment it emerged to the present day. In these changes, technological developments that affect social life deeply also have a big share. Communication technologies, which have emerged in the recent period and opened to public use, are among the structures that affect culture. Social media and social media's interaction, surveillance, communication, etc. features have resulted in the emergence of the so-called “cyber culture” and thus the culture has gained a “cyber” dimension. In the study prepared to determine the effects of cyber culture on society, it was concluded that this structure has quite determinative effects on the society and the individual. The study was prepared by taking the opinions of students in two universities in Ankara and two in Istanbul in four universities. A total of 1493 students, 789 women and 695 men, were selected from the students studying in these universities and the research was carried out. In the study, it was found that the participants largely adopted “cyber culture”, the internet caused changes in their lives, and obtained new cyber identities and cyber status.