ON THE TERMİNOLOGY OF THE COMPUTATIONAL COMMUNICATION

Authors : Ali Kerem İngeç

Pages : 427-449

Doi:10.19145/e-gifder.1582826

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Publication Date : 2025-03-31

Article Type : Review Paper

Abstract :As any other technological products, computers have become an integral part of human life, with their improving capabilities and many scientific disciplines have begun to utilise the facilitating functions of computers. The fact that computers play a key role in the researches carried out in disciplines of social sciences has enabled the computer to be used in communication research. Furthermore, the advent of internet and the rise of user-generated content have created a new source of data on human actions. Due to these developments computational communication science which is based on the gathering and analysis of data consisting of the traces left by people in digital environments has emerged. In this study, it is argued that the term \\\'computational communication\\\' is an incorrect terminology for this scientific field and that an alternative title/titles should be proposed. It is obvious that communication encompasses a multitude of facets beyond the mere transfer of data from one point to another or the interpretation of data. Similarly, the term \\\"computational\\\", encompasses a spectrum of operations that extend beyond the mere utilisation of a computer as a tool. Shortly, this paper addresses the content of computational
Keywords : Hesaplamalı, İletişim, Medya, Terminoloji, Etkileşim