The 1st International Asia-Pacific Studies Symposium was held in cooperation with Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU), Kırklareli University Public Diplomacy Application and Research Center (KADAM) and Caucasus Strategic Research Center (KAFKASSAM) ended. The experts presented dozens of papers for two days and discussed the social problems, economic situation and political developments in the Asia-Pacific countries and offered solutions.
63 PERCENT OF USERS ARE ACTIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Murat Topçu, a researcher from Gelisim University who participated in the symposium with his statement ‘Social Media Management and Regional Conflicts’, shared important statistical information on social media. Stating that 42 percent of the world's population is connected to social media via mobile phone and 3 percent is connected via other devices, Topçu said: “As we look at the statistics of Turkey, 93 percent in Turkey, it is seen that our country has quite a high proportion of the number of mobile users, which is 93 percent and that the number of active social media users is above the world average with a rate of 63 percent. While the world population annually increased by 1 percent between June 2018 and June 2019, the rate of social media usage increased by 10 times and the rate of internet usage increased by 9 times during the same period. These statistics show us that internet and social media are intertwined through mobile telephony and that in a future without social media, people will feel ‘blinded’.”
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