Digital technologies and public life in Istanbul: Socio-demographic patterns and urban implications

IF 6 1区经济学 Q1 URBAN STUDIES

Cities Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI:10.1016/j.cities.2025.106179

Aslı Altanlar , İbrahim Eren , Esin Özlem Aktuğlu Aktan

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Abstract

Digital interactions have been observed to weaken physical social bonds, diminishing the sense of social belonging and fostering homogenized identities within online environments. This transformation in public spaces and social relationships demonstrates the reshaping effect of digitalization on social structures. This study examines the effects of digital technologies on societal life, encompassing dimensions such as social isolation, media influence, homogenization, placelessness, technology-induced social anxiety, and digital addiction. The findings are derived from descriptive analyses, t-tests, ANOVA, ANOVA-Bonferroni, and Post Hoc statistical methods applied to data from 400 participants aged 18 and over in Istanbul. The results reveal that the societal impacts of digital technologies are uniformly perceived across diverse age, education, and socio-economic groups. A notable gender distinction was observed in the dimensions of social isolation and digital addiction, with males scoring higher in these areas. At the same time, married individuals displayed higher levels of digital addiction than singles. These findings underscore that digitalization is driving profound shifts across all segments of society, increasingly shaping individuals' everyday lives.

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伊斯坦布尔的数字技术与公共生活：社会人口模式和城市影响

据观察，数字互动削弱了物理社会联系，减少了社会归属感，并在网络环境中培养了同质化的身份。这种公共空间和社会关系的转变体现了数字化对社会结构的重塑效应。本研究考察了数字技术对社会生活的影响，包括社会孤立、媒体影响、同质化、无地性、技术诱发的社交焦虑和数字成瘾等方面。研究结果来自描述性分析、t检验、方差分析、ANOVA- bonferroni和Post Hoc统计方法，这些方法应用于伊斯坦布尔400名18岁及以上参与者的数据。结果显示，不同年龄、教育程度和社会经济群体对数字技术的社会影响的看法是一致的。在社会孤立和数字成瘾方面观察到明显的性别差异，男性在这些领域的得分更高。与此同时，已婚人士比单身人士表现出更高的数字成瘾程度。这些发现强调，数字化正在推动社会各阶层的深刻变革，越来越多地影响个人的日常生活。

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Cities URBAN STUDIES-

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11.20

自引率

9.00%

发文量

517

期刊介绍： Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy. The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.