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COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE EXISTENTIAL ADVENTURE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIP (A RESEARCH ON 'COMMUNICATION SCIENCES - COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES' DOCTORAL THESIS)

In the last century in Turkey, discussions, researches and studies on technology and communication concepts, communication tools, communication education-teaching constitute a voluminous literature. However, the way in which the relationship between 'technology and human', which is the most basic issue in the basic genealogy of the concept of 'communication', is handled, has remained incomplete and superficial like many other topics/concepts seen in Turkey's modernization adventure. The relationship between technology and people, in a way, stands as an issue that requires a comprehensive and continuous reading, in which the adventure of modernization in Turkey can also be read. Because in the last period of the Ottoman Empire, it can be stated that the relationship between technology and human was implicitly at the center of the discussions about the West, and subjects such as science, technology and progress. Likewise, it can be stated that the most important indicator of individual and social change and reaching the level of contemporary civilization in the Republican period is the developments and advances in technology and, accordingly, communication technologies. 
 
In the last century, mostly technology, especially the change and transformation in communication technologies, lies on the basis of the acquis formed on the concepts, institutions and education of communication sciences (Yaylagül, 2006; McLuhan, 2014). In addition, the concept of 'communication' has often been considered in parallel with the development of communication technologies (media) and has even been used interchangeably (Oskay, 2000; Fall, 2006; Anık, 2020). In addition, in some academic studies on communication studies, how these communication tools and their contents are received, consumed, what their effects are, etc. focused on (Tokgöz, 1982; Hulur and Yassin, 2016; Toprak, et al. 2009). More specifically, in studies that look at communication tools from an ideological perspective from a critical parenthesis; It has been emphasized how communication tools function as an apparatus of 'forms of social power' (Timisi, 2016; Başaran, 2015; Çakır, 2014). 
 
In summary, in the last century, both more descriptive, exploratory, relational and explanatory studies in communication sciences studies in Turkey, as well as critical approaches with a more ideological perspective have read the 'technology and human' relationship mostly through results; the philosophical and the existential could not be enough to read. In addition, although there are some studies from different disciplines on the existential situation of human beings in the universe against the rapidly developing artificial intelligence, robotic and genetic technologies, there is a need for more intensive studies, especially around communication sciences. 
 
This article focuses on doctoral dissertations conducted around media and communication studies in the last thirty years in the context of technology and human relations in our country. In the theses reached as a result of the search made around the keywords 'communication technologies, new communication technologies, communication sciences' in the YÖK database, it puts the way technology and human relations are handled at its center. In the article, a discussion is carried out by focusing on the way technology and human relations are handled around the titles of 'subject, purpose, scope and method' of twenty-two doctoral theses conducted in different histories, universities and Departments.