Digital Conscience: Humanity’s New Test in the Digital Age
Digitalization represents not merely a technical transformation but a restructuring of humanity’s relationship with truth, knowledge, and one another. Digital conscience refers to an individual’s ability to evaluate all content produced, shared, consumed, and directed in digital environments through ethical, moral, and human values. This concept establishes a multi-layered sphere of responsibility that encompasses not only individual users but also media institutions, technology companies, algorithm designers, and public authorities.
1) Ünal Altıner, the police chief of Istanbul's Beyoğlu district, has been photographed while detaining two children on İstiklal Avenue. He defended his action, stressing that the children were shooting stones at the policemen with their slings, a "crime" that they allegedly committed in the past, too:
