Tendency Of Usage Of Social Media Tools By The Public Relations Practitioners: An Evaluation On Turkeys 500 Biggest Industrial Corporations

Journal Title: AJIT-e: Bilişim Teknolojileri Online Dergisi - Year 2013, Vol 4, Issue 13

Abstract

  The interactive communication in the artificial environment has widened its limits with the usage of the social media tools and has become an inevitable element of the digital era. The usage of the tools such as social network sharing sites, blogs, e-mail usage, intranet, video conferencing, forums, video sharing sites such as Youtube, music sharing sites, business network sites, cooperative web sites, instant message, vikis, podcasts, training materials sharing, social bookmarking, bookmarking sites ensuring its users to make online news, stories, music, personal publication which take place in the social media tools by the public relations practitioners gradually gains importance in terms of the public relations practitioners.In this study, the place and importance of social media tools with regards to public relations and their role in creating a new public relations process are discussed. Accordingly, an online questionnaire form was prepared and sent via e-mail to the public relations practitioners. These public relations practitioners were determined through the survey results of Turkeys Top 500 Industrial Enterprises 2011 which was conducted regularly by Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ISO). An assessment intended to identify the trends and reasons of use of social media tools by the public relations practitioners who work in the biggest companies of Turkey and their perceptions of social media and traditional media was made.

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Feride Akım, Aybike Özel

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  • EP ID EP116755
  • DOI 10.5824/1309‐1581.2013.4.006.x
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Feride Akım, Aybike Özel (2013). Tendency Of Usage Of Social Media Tools By The Public Relations Practitioners: An Evaluation On Turkeys 500 Biggest Industrial Corporations. AJIT-e: Bilişim Teknolojileri Online Dergisi, 4(13), 87-108. https://europub.co.uk./articles/-A-116755