Founded in 2012 with the collaboration of the Department of Media and Visual Arts and Department of Psychology at Koç University, the Social Interaction and Media (SIM) Lab is an interdisciplinary research lab that focuses on social interaction, relationships and mediated communication from social, psychological and policy perspectives.
Our research at Simlab focuses on questions such as:
- Online socialization and interpersonal relationships
- Impression formation in dyadic relationships
- Predictors of social media and SNS use
- Social interactions in educational context
- Prosocial behavior
- Privacy policies in interactive and/or mobile media
- Attitudes about privacy
- Digital labor and blogging
- Game studies
- Citizen journalism
- Use of ICTs during emergencies
- Intergroup helping
