Res. Assist. Tuba Livberber Göçmen* Digitalized Culture of New Generation Introduction Te transition from the industrial society to the information society led to many changes in individuals’ culture, life conditions, perceptions, and views on life. With technological transformations as the frst step of the information society, new communication technologies came into individuals’ lives and started the digitalization process in many areas including economic, social, and cultural products. In this process, next generation technologies started to be used instead of traditional ones; economic, social, and cultural products went into reproduc- tion. In the reformation of the cultural products process, many areas which refect individuals’ lifestyles such as business manners, friendship, family and romantic relationships, or consumptions habits are changed. Changes encountered in the globalization process are called “innovations”. According to Lessig (2004: 184), the ‘innovation’ is a controversial issue. Tis is because the phenomenon of accessing and sharing information is as old as human history and digital technologies only diferentiated the process. Tis period of today which was composed of digital innovations is generally called the information society or network society. In addition to these concepts, McLuhan’s “global village”, Bell’s “post-industrial society”, and Tofer’s “third wave” are also frequently used concepts. Manuel Castells’ studies have a big role in the development and proliferation of the network society concept. Castells (2013: 621) says that networks constitute the new social morphology of societies and the proliferation of the reason of networking seriously changed the results of operation of production, experience, power, and culture processes. At this point, the network refers to telecommunication networks, highway networks, and municipal service networks getting together with specialized information networks and fnancial networks infrastructure. Te term network is the key point in order to understand cultural change because it is one of the key compo- nents of social change (Cheviron, 2014: 59). Te reason for this is an argument as the main components of the network approach is that “new communication technologies have changed the classical relation between the time and space”. * Selcuk University, Faculty of Communication, tubalivberber@selcuk.edu.tr