Umut Kısa

Thesis Title: Quantifying and Measuring Digital Competencies in a Participatory Culture: Türkiye Case

Research Areas: Digital Skills, Interpersonal Communications, Neuromarketing, Distributed Cognition

E-mail: umutkisa@solaunitas.com / umut.kisa@istanbulticaret.edu.tr  

Advisor: Prof. Erkan Saka

Müge Öztunç

Thesis Title: The interactions of middle-class lifestyles within the context of Islamisation in Türkiye

E-mail: mugeoztunc@aydin.edu.tr

Advisor: Prof. Ahmet Kılıç Süerdem

Nagehan Uzuner
Thesis Title: A Dialectic Relationship between Discourses of Cancer of Newspapers and Survivors in Türkiye
E-mail: nagehan.uzuner@bilgi.edu.tr / nagehan.uzuner@gmail.com
Advisor: Prof. Itır Erhart

Rakel Pinhas Meshulam
Thesis Title: Minority Newspaper and Editorial Cartoons: Reading Turkish-Jewish Minority Through Şalom Newspaper in Türkiye
E-mail: rakel.mesulam@bilgiedu.net
Advisor: Prof. Nazan Haydari Pakkan

Gece Tezcan
Thesis Title: A Communicational Analysis of Animal Experiments (2021)
E-mail: gecee@riseup.net
Advisor: Prof. Itır Erhart

Hande Cayir 

Thesis Title: Documentary as Autoethnography: A Case Study based on the Changing Surnames of Women 

Research Areas: Documentary, Autoethnography, Women's Surnames, Türkiye

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Feride Çiçekoğlu

Sercan Sengun 

Thesis Title: Research on the Narrative Perceptions and Preferences of Video Game Players 

Research Areas: Video Games, Narrative Perceptions, Player Preferences, Digital Media

E-mail: - Advisor: Prof. Selcen Öztürkcan

Barika Goncü 

Thesis Title: The Creation of the Occupational Culture of Public Relations in Türkiye through Storytelling 

Research Areas: Public Relations, Occupational Culture, Storytelling, Türkiye 

E-mail: -

Advisor: Prof. Yonca Aslanbay

Burcu Gümüş 

Thesis Title: Design Effects on Consumer Choices: A Study on Technological Products 

Research Areas: Design, Consumer Choices, Technological Products, Consumer Behaviour 

Email: - 

Advisor: Prof. Emine Eser Gegez

Funda Lena

Thesis Title: Cultural Consumption and Social Stratification: The Case of Türkiye

Research Areas: Cultural Consumption, Social Stratification, Türkiye, Cultural Studies

E-mail: -

Advisor: Prof. Serhan Ada

Sedef Erdogan Giovanelli 

Thesis Title: Culinary Heritage in Türkiye: Cultural Policy, Official Practice and Online Representation of Food Culture 

Research Areas: Gastronomy, Cultural Heritage, Türkiye, Cultural Policies

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Erkan Saka

Dilek Gursoy 

Thesis Title: Transmedia Journalism Toolkit (TJT): A Design Thinking Guide to Creating Transmedia News Stories 

Research Areas: Transmedia Journalism, Design Thinking, News Storytelling, Media Studies

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Feride Çiçekoğlu

Melike Ozmen Thesis Title: Designer's Experience of a Place: Information Design as a Tool for Urban Interface 

Research Areas: Design, Information Design, Urban Interface, Place Experience

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Feride Çiçekoğlu

Selime Büyükgöze 

Thesis Title: Cinematic Strategies Against Silenced and Repressed: Formal Analysis of Unconventional Films from Türkiye in the 2000s 

Research Areas: Cinema, Silence, Repression, Turkish Cinema, Film Analysis

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Alper Kırklar

Selin Öner 

Thesis Title: How Can the Sharing Economy Platforms, Particularly Crowdfunding Platforms, Facilitate Formation of Interpersonal and System Trust? 

Research Areas: Sharing Economy, Crowdfunding, Trust Formation, Digital Platforms

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Erkan Saka

Tuğba Yazıcı 

Thesis Title: How Does Fandom End? From Immersion to Dissolution: Ex-Fans and Unfans 

Research Areas: Fandom, Fan Culture, Digital Culture, Social Media

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Emine Eser Gegez

Zeynep Eren Kunt 

Thesis Title: Forum Theatre as A Participatory Communication Space for Dialogue, Collaboration and Solidarity 

Research Areas: Forum Theatre, Participatory Communication, Dialogue, Collaboration, Solidarity 

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Nazan Haydari Pakkan

Ertuğrul Süngü 

Thesis Title: A Historical Approach to Gaming Subculture in Türkiye 

Research Areas: Gaming Culture, Subcultures, Türkiye, Digital Games

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Erkan Saka

Fatma Elif Sorkun 

Thesis Title: Developing Neighbour Collaboration: A Case Study 

Research Areas: Neighbour Collaboration, Cooperation, Social Relations, Türkiye

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Aslı Tunç

Onur Sesigür 

Thesis Title: A Study of Personal Streaming Through Digital Curation 

Research Areas: Personal Streaming, Digital Curation, Social Media, Internet Culture

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Aslı Tunç

Serhat Akkılıç 

Thesis Title: Media Representation of AI: Cases Of US, UK, China and Türkiye

Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Media Representation, International Comparisons, Communication Studies

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Ahmet Süerdem

Banu Yilmaz 

Thesis Title: Purpose Driven Co-Creational Public Relations Between Turkish NGOs and Corporations in the Context of Dialogic Theory 

Research Areas: Public Relations, Co-Creation, NGOs, Türkiye

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Yonca Aslanbay

Can Koçak 

Thesis Title: The Figure of Intellectual in Nuri Bilge Ceylan Films: Phases of Representation from Silence to Over-Articulation 

Research Interests: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Intellectual Representation, Cinema, Türkiye

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Feride Çiçekoğlu

Sarper Durmus 

Thesis Title: Commodification of Agency: Surplus Value Creation in Twitch 

Research Interests: Twitch, Agency, Surplus Value, Digital Economy

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Halil Nalçaoğlu

Can Zeren 

Thesis Title: An Ecology of Political Communication: Propaganda Geographies and Infrastructural Uproar in İstanbul 

Research Areas: Political Communication, Propaganda, Istanbul, Communication Ecology

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Serhan Ada

Cüneyt Devrim 

Thesis Title: Effective Native Advertising Factors and Their Effect on Brand Attributes 

Research Areas: Native Advertising, Brand Attributes, Marketing, Digital Advertising

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Gresi Sanje

Çağla Gül Şenkardeş 

Thesis Title: A Critical Discourse Analysis: Gendered Discourses within the Corporate Sustainability Context 

Research Areas: Critical Discourse Analysis, Gendered Discourses, Corporate Sustainability, Gender Studies

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Itır Erhart

Gokhan Aslan 

Thesis Title: Beyond Digital Labour: A Theoretical Inquiry into Value and Abstraction in Communication 

Research Interests: Digital Labour, Value and Abstraction, Communication Theory, Digital Economy

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Aydın Uğur

Işıl Eğrikavuk 

Thesis Title: From a Political Protest to an Art Exhibition: Building Interconnectedness through Dialogue-based Art 

Research Interests: Art, Political Protest, Dialogue-Based Art, Relational Aesthetics

E-mail: - 

Advisor: Prof. Itır Erhart