Sosyal Medya ve Dijital Güvenlik Eğitim Araştırma Merkezi

Sosyal Medya ve Dijital Güvenlik Eğitim Araştırma Merkezi (SODİMER) Prof. Dr. Levent Eraslan Tarafından kurulmuş; sosyal medya, dijital güvenlik ve dijital eğitim alanlarında çalışmalar yürüten bir sivil toplum kuruluşudur.

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Prof. Dr. Levent ERASLAN

Eraslan carries out the Presidency of SODIMER, an organization that has been providing free education to a hundred thousand people with international participation in the last two years. He is also the founder of Turkiye's first Metaverse School. He established Metaverse Turkiye Platform and Startup school with leading entrepreneurs in the field of Metaverse.

Eraslan, who was born in 1975 in Karabük, completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Istanbul, and his undergraduate and graduate education in Ankara. Eraslan, who has PhD in Sociology of Education, served as a faculty member at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Ankara University, and the National Defense University Military Academy.

Eraslan has theoretical and applied research on different and private areas of social life. Eraslan, who has international academic studies in many fields, was a member of the TUBIM Science Board of the Ministry of Interior General Directorate of Security. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Turkish Informatics Association, Turkiye's oldest informatics-based NGO, and a TEDX speaker.

He served as Anadolu University Vice Rector and established Anadolu University social media and Digital Security Education, Application and Research Center, which is a first in its field. Thousands of students have benefited from the trainings of this center, and here hundreds of contents have been created. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Journalists Council. He is the spokesperson Ankara City Council Technology Group.

Eraslan, who is also a member of the editorial board of ‘’Global Savunma’’ Magazine, has 23 copyrighted books, nearly a hundred academic studies and six scientific achievement awards. Eraslan, who also has an editorial book called Social Media Sociology, taught the course of the same name for the first time in the World, in Turkiye in undergraduate and graduate education.

He has given hundreds of face to face trainings to students, teachers, and administrators in many cities of Türkiye, and has carried out many national and international projects. Eraslan is a member of the Children's Foundation Advisory Board.

Eraslan is the expert guest of many written and visual media tools to talk and write about Education, Metaverse, social media and Digital Education. He is the author of Harvard Business Review, the world's most prestigious business and management magazine celebrating its 100th anniversary.

Prof.Dr.Levent Eraslan sees the spread of digital entrepreneurship as a national duty.

He brought new concepts such as Social Media Sociology, Social Media Aggression, Digital Tyranny, and Emergency Situations Pedagogy to the literature.

Publications (on Social Media a Digital Life)

• Social Media Sociology (Book)
• Understanding Social Media - A Social Media Guide (Book)
• Perception and Propaganda (Book)
• Social Media and Perception Management (Book)
• Social Networks Directory (Book)
• Social Media and Society Research (An introduction to Social Media

Sociology)

• Social Media and Digital Games with their Different Aspects
• Social Media and Youth
• Social Relations in Virtual World and Social Media Aggression. World Journal

on Educational Technology: Current Issues, 11(2), 1-11. 2019.

• The War of Russia and Ukraine as an Example of a Hybrid War