JUSTIFICATION OF THE CONGRESS

The fact that technology enters human life so quickly and takes most of the people's lives emphasizes how important technology is in daily life. The innovations and problems brought by the age are proliferating. On the one hand, we face technology and its derivatives that make our lives easier, and on the other hand, surround us with all its elements. Access to new technologies has increased in recent years, and the printing press, telegraph, telephone, computer and now smartphones have made the flow of information much easier for people. Nevertheless, it would not be an exaggeration to claim that it negatively affects people's family and friendship relations and even makes people dumb in social life. E.g.; The speaking skills of those who watch television intensively are weakened. Just like someone who drives constantly forgets to walk...

Because of all these developments, the problem we call Digital Addiction has emerged.

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In this Congress, the term “Digital Life Skills” was used. This is because Our aim is to examine in depth the positive and negative aspects of healthy digitalization and the use of digital objects in accordance with their purpose, especially digital addiction. Therefore, on the one hand; while expressing addiction types such as mobile phone addiction, television addiction, video game addiction, computer addiction and internet addiction with a single concept as digital addiction; On the other hand, it was necessary to deal with the healthy digitalization and social transformation dimension, accompanied by interactive studies on the effects of digitalization on life from an interdisciplinary perspective.