Javier Abuín-Penas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the University of Vigo (Pontevedra, Spain). His outreach work focuses on media literacy, combating disinformation, and the critical use of artificial intelligence. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles and 15 book chapters, and participates in research projects funded by the European Union and the Spanish Ministry of Science, addressing fact-checking and educational innovation. He coordinates the Literacy Against Disinformation Seminar, delivers training sessions for educators, and maintains a personal website offering open-access teaching materials and science communication resources.

Jörg Matthes (PhD, University of Zurich) is Professor of Communication Science at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria, where he directs the Advertising and Media Psychology Research Group (AdMe). His research focuses on digital media effects, advertising and consumer research, sustainability communication, children & media, terrorism and populism as well as empirical methods. He has published more than 200 journal articles and his research activities received awards and honors from the German Communication Association, the International Communication Association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the German Psychological Association, or the World Association for Public Opinion Research. He is also recipient of several top dissertation awards, i.e., by the German Communication Association, the Faculty of Arts of the University of Zurich, and the Swiss Association for Market and Social Research. In 2014, he received the Young Scholar Award by the International Communication Association honoring the most outstanding research career worldwide seven years past the PhD. Two years later, he received AEJMC's Hillier Krieghbaum Under 40 Award which honors scholars "under 40 years of age who have shown outstanding achievement and effort in all three AEJMC areas: teaching, research and public service". In 2019, he was honored with the UNIVIE Teaching Award and in 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of the International Communication Association. He was recipient of an Advanced Grant (2.5 Million Euros) by the European Research Council (ERC) in 2022.

He has served the field as Associate Editor and Editor-in-Chief of Communication Methods & Measures, leading the journal to be ranked as #1 in the Social Science Citation Index in 2022. He also was Associate Editor of The Journal of Communication as well as Human Communication Research and since 2020, he is Associate Editor of The Journal of Advertising. He is currently sitting on the Editorial Board of more than 15 journals.

From 2012 to 2014 he was Vice Chair and then, from 2014-2022, Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna. Under his leadership, the Department rose to be ranked among the top 30 Departments for communication science in the world. He served as an evaluator and advisor for the quality assessment of higher education institutions and research programs in The Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Bulgaria, or China.

Information on education, academic degrees/titles and employment
Education:
2017 - 2019 – PhD in Ancient History; Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland; dissertation cum laude;
2013 - 2016 – doctoral studies programme (coursework); Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland;
2010 – Master Degree in Ancient World Studies; The University of Sydney, Australia;
2008 – 1st Class Honours in Classical Archaeology; The University of Sydney, Australia;
2005 - 2007 – Bachelor of Arts (major in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology); The University of Sydney, Australia.
Academic work experience:
2025 (ongoing) - 2022 – adjunct/lecturer in ancient history (ancient Near East, Greece, Rome), Institute of History;
Department of Anthropology of Historical Records, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland;
2019 - 2013 – academic tutor for university courses in ancient history (Late Roman Republic, Early Roman Empire),
Department of Ancient History, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland;
2012 - 2010 – tutor for ancient history, Latin, and classical archaeology at Sancta Sophia College, The University of
Sydney, Australia;
2010 – academic tutor for Late Roman Republic university courses, Department of Classics and Ancient
History, The University of Sydney, Australia;
2012 - 2008 – education officer in the Nicholson Museum and Macleay Museum (ancient history/archaeology and natural
history museums; currently Nicholson Collection - Chau Chak Wing Museum); teaching archaeology and ancient history;
running “hands-on” sessions with archaeological artefacts; organizing school holiday programs for secondary school
students, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Work experience (in archaeology):
2015 - 2013 – archaeological site of Silchester, Insula IX/III project, United Kingdom (project run by the University of
Reading);
2013 – archaeological site of ancient Forum Sempronii (Fossombrone), Italy (project run by Università degli studi di
Urbino);
2012 – archaeological site of ancient theatre in Paphos, Cyprus (project run by the University of Sydney);
2007 – archaeological site of the early colonial Cumberland/Gloucester Street, The Rocks, New South Wales, Australia
(project run by the University of Sydney).

Lectures and presentations
2025 (July) – paper title: War Ideology in Private Context: Normalising Military and Political
Conflicts in Roman Households; international symposium 16th Celtic Conference in Classics (session: Ideology, political
polarisation and the end of the Roman Republic); Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal;
2024 (January) – paper title: Politicising Private Space: Roman Household in Times of Unrest; international conference
Legacies of the Roman Republic: Law, text, and Spaces; University of Helsinki, Finland;
2022 (November) – paper title: Dialogues on Ancient Pompeian Walls: A Case Study; international conference
“Classicamente”; Università di Siena, Centro AMA, Antropologia del Mondo Antico, Siena, Italy;
2019 (October) – paper title: Gladiatorial edicta of Pompeii: Mechanisms of Advertising in the Ancient City; international
conference (Symposium Campanum 2019: Reading the City: Inscriptions of the Bay of Naples), Villa Vergiliana, Cume,
Italy;
2015 (September) – paper title: Condemnation of a Strong Woman: Female Gladiators in Ancient Texts and
Archaeological Record; international annual symposium of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA), Glasgow,
Scotland; session title: From Written Sources to Archaeological Fields: Ancient History and Archaeology in a Renewed
Interdisciplinary Dialogue;
2015 (May) – paper title: Le Donne e La Violenza: Evidenze archeologiche sui combattimenti femminili nel mondo antico;
guest speaker at the Archeologia in Rosa 2015, Società Friulana di Archeologia, Udine, Italy;
2014 (August) – paper title: Quintus Fufius Calenus: a Forgotten Career; international conference: The Roman Civil Wars of 49-30 BCE: Problems, Perspectives, and Solutions, Kavala, Grecja; main organised Dr Richard Westall (Universita Gregoriana, Rome, Italy, and The Catholic University of America, Washington, USA);

2014 (March) – paper title: Communicating Hatred: Cicero’s Philippics and the Oratory of Humiliation; interdisciplinary
conference for graduate students and early career researchers: Aspects of Communicating in Antiquity and Modern Era
(Oblicza Komunikacji w Starożytności i Współcześnie); University of Wrocław, Poland;
Prizes and awards
2025 - The Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Chancellor's Individual Award for the book publication in March 2025;
2024 - The Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Chancellor's Team Award for the Organisation of International Conference
The Image of Peasant Communities in European Written Sources, Culture, and Art from Antiquity to the 20th century,
Lublin, 16-17 April 2024 (the project co-financed from the state budget funds, granted by the Minister of Science and
Higher Education under the Excellent Science II Programme – Support for Scientific Conferences (Konf/SP/0242/2023/01);
2024 – Miniatura 8: financial subsidy granted by the National Science Centre, Poland, for conducting research at the
British School at Rome, Italy;
2023 – Minigrant: subsidy for research conducted in Rome in 2024, Italy; Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin, Poland;
2022/2024 – Homo Didacticus Prize for the Best History Lecturer at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin,
Poland;
2019 – Academic Merit Prize for Doctoral Dissertation; Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland;
2017 - 2013 – scholarship for doctoral students and merit scholarship for doctoral students; Maria Curie-Skłodowska
University, Lublin, Poland;
2016 - 2014 – Grant Award of the Faculty of Arts for Young Researchers and Doctoral Students; Maria Curie-Skłodowska
University, Lublin, Poland.
Other significant achievements
Conference organisation:
2025 (September) – main organiser of the session: Identity of Place and Space in Historical and Archaeological Context at
the international symposium of the European Association of Archaeologists,
Belgrade, Serbia;
2024 (April) – co-organiser of the international conference The Image of Peasant Communities in European Written
Sources, Culture, and Art from Antiquity to the 20th century; Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland;
2018 – co-organiser of the session: Heritage Management in the 21st Century: Where Is It Heading? State Agencies,
NGOs, Charities or Independent Organisations at the international symposium of the European Association of
Archaeologists, Barcelona, Spain;
2017 – organiser of the session: Archaeological Evidence for Advertising, Promotions and “Marketing” in Antiquity at the
international symposium of the European Association of Archaeologists, Maastricht, the Netherlands;
2016 – organiser of the international conference: An Undiscovered Woman - from Antiquity to Modern Times, Maria
Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland;
2016 – co-organiser of the session: How to Make a Fieldschool Work?: Managing Issues, Dangers, Opportunities at the
international symposium of the European Association of Archaeologists, Vilnius, Lithuania;
2015 – organiser of the session: From Written Sources to Archaeological Fields: Ancient History and Archaeology in a
Renewed Interdisciplinary Dialogue at the international symposium of the European Association of Archaeologists,
Glasgow, Scotland.

Academic publications:

Anna Miączewska, Edicta Munerum: Advertising and Promotion of Gladiatorial Games in Ancient Pompeii (2025), BRILL, Leiden, pp. 360, ISBN: 978-90-04-72127-2.

Anna Miączewska, Postponements and Cancellations of Mass Events in Ancient Rome: CIL IV 9967 in a Broader Context of Gladiatorial Games (2024), Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua, Universidad

Anna Miączewska, Pompeian Elogium, Livineius Regulus, and the Riots of AD 59 (2024), Humanitas - Revista
do Istituto de Estudios Clásicos, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal; vol. 84, pp. 63-83, ISSN: 0871-1569.

Anna Miączewska, Europe in the Tripartite Division of the Earth: Herodotean Image of the World in the Etymologiae
by Isidore of Seville (2024), Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae, Centre for Historical Research, Warsaw, vol.
29, pp. 35-52, ISSN: 1427-4418 / e-ISSN: 2720-5614.

Anna Miączewska, Communication Culture on a Mass Scale: Ancient Roman Games and Methods of Communicating
with the Audience (2022), Perspectives on Culture, vol. 39 (4), pp. 239-260,
Uniwersytet Ignatianum in Cracow, e-ISSN 2719-8014, ISSN 2081-1446.

Anna Miączewska, Quintus Fufius Calenus: a Forgotten Career (2018), Hermathena - A Trinity College Dublin
Review, Trinity College, vol. 196-197, pp. 163-203, ISSN 0018-0750.

Anna Miączewska, Roman Discus Lamps: Studies in the Significance and Meaning of Gladiatorial Images (2015),
Gniezno: Acta Humanistica Gnesnensia, vol. V (Institute of European Culture, Adam Mickiewicz University
in Poznań, Poland), pp. 461. ISBN 978-83-65287-01-4.

After graduating from Istanbul University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, English Translation and Interpreting (Major) and from the Faculty of Communication, Radio, TV and Cinema (Double Major) programs in 2012, Aydoğan was appointed as a research assistant to the Advertising Department of the Public Relations and Promotion Department of the Faculty of Communication at Akdeniz University within the scope of the Faculty Member Training Program (ÖYP) in 2013. In 2016, she defended her thesis titled "Reflection of Globalization on Advertisements and Advertising Strategies in the Context of Globalization" and graduated from the Public Relations and Promotion Department of the Institute of Social Sciences at Akdeniz University. With the opening of the Advertising Department of the Faculty of Communication at Akdeniz University in 2018, she was appointed to the Advertising Department as a research assistant. In 2021, she graduated from Akdeniz University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Public Relations and Publicity by successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled "A Model Proposal for Adult Digital Advertising Literacy" and received her doctorate on 23.12.2021. She was appointed as an assistant professor to the Department of Advertising on 01.02.2023 and still serves as an assistant professor. She received the title of associate professor in Advertising from the Interuniversity General Assembly on 22.03.2024. She continues her research in the fields of digital advertising, brand management, marketing communications, research methods and artificial intelligence.

Anadolu Üniversitesi İletişim Bilimleri Fakültesi, Halkla İlişkiler ve Reklamcılık Bölümü’ndeki lisans eğitimini 2011 yılında tamamlayan ADALI, 2013-2015 yılları arasında Akdeniz Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Halkla İlişkiler ve Tanıtım Bölümü Ana Bilim Dalı’ndan “Popüler Kültür ve Reklam İlişkisi: Basılı Reklamlarda 14 Şubat Sevgililer Günü” başlıklı yüksek lisans tezi ile mezun olmuştur. Aynı ana bilim dalında başladığı doktora eğitimini "Geleneksel Mecralardan Dijital Alana Reklamcılık: Dijital Göçmen ve Dijital Yerliler Üzerine Bir Araştırma" başlıklı doktora tezi ile başarıyla savunarak 01.07.2022 tarihinde doktor unvanı almıştır. Ekim, 2013- Haziran 2022 yılları arasında araştırma görevlisi olarak çalıştığı kurum olan Akdeniz Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Reklamcılık Bölümü'ne 21 Aralık 2022 tarİhinde doktor öğretim üyesi olarak ataması yapılmıştır. 31.05.2024 tarihinde Üniversitelerarası Genel Kurul'dan Reklamcılık alanında doçent unvanını alan ADALI’nın akademik ilgi alanları arasında; reklam, popüler kültür, tüketim, toplumsal cinsiyet araştırmaları ve dijitalleşme yer almaktadır.

Makbule Evrim Gülsünler 

Selçuk Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Halkla İlişkiler Lisans

Halkla İlişkiler Yüksek Lisans Ve Doktora

Prof.Dr. Halkla İlişkiler Bölümü Araştırma Yöntemleri

Hacer Aker Selçuk Üniversitesi, Gazetecilik Bölümü’nde lisansını, Radyo, Televizyon ve Sinema Ana Bilim Dalı’nda master ve doktorasını tamamladı. Aynı bölümde öğretim üyesi olarak görev yapan yazar, Capitol Technology University’den siberpsikolog Mary Aiken ile ortak editörlü bir kitap çıkardı. Handbook of Research on Cyberchondria, Health Literacy, and the Role of Media in Society ’s Perception of Medical Information başlıklı kitap, Amerika’da yayınlandı. Yoksulluk, Kahkaha ve Sinema kitabının yazarı, Sinema ve Çocuk-I , Sinema ve Çocuk-2 ve Medya ve Toplumsal İnşa kitaplarının da editörlerinden olan Aker, Sinematik İmgelemde İntihar, Ötenazi ve Ölüm, Sinema ve Edebiyat Üzerine Yazılar, Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Medya Algısı, Türk Sinemasında Kadınlık Halleri, Medyada Korku Kültürü Üzerine Eleştirel Yaklaşımlar, Digital Dönüşüm, İletişim Fark Yaratır, Derviş Zaim Sinemasını Anlamak: Anlatı, Zaman ve Mekan, Contemporary Issues in Cultural Studies ve Contemporary Issues in Arts adlı yayınlar başta olmak üzere birçok kitabın da bölüm yazarlarındandır. 2013 yılından itibaren Kısa-ca Uluslararası Öğrenci Filmleri Festival'inde düzenleme kurulu üyesi ve tören koordinatörü olarak görev alan yazar, ulusal/uluslararası bazda ödül kazanan çok sayıda öğrenci projesinin de danışmanlığını yürütmüştür. Sosyoloji, Filmlerle Felsefe, Film Eleştirisi, Sinemasal Düşünce, Sinema, Sokak Siyaseti ve İnsan İlişkileri, Kültürlerarası İletişim, Radyo Programcılığı ve Akademik Yazım ve Etik derslerini yürüten Aker, kamplarda yaşayan Suriyeli mülteciler üzerine katılımcı gözlem ve yarı-yapılandırılmış görüşme tekniklerinin kullanılacağı bilimsel bir proje hazırlığındadır. Bulguların bir kitapta derleneceği projede, belgesel çekimi de gerçekleştirilecektir. Politik sinema, felsefe, kültür politikaları, yoksulluk, göç, komedi, iletişim çalışmaları ve yeni iletişim teknolojileri yazınına ilgi duyan yazarın, matematik olimpiyatları ve kompozisyon yarışmalarında Türkiye birincilikleri, haber spikerliği dalında da ödülleri bulunmaktadır. 

Prof. Dr. Elif Eşiyok Barut, Atılım Üniversitesi Halkla İlişkiler ve Reklamcılık Bölümü'nde öğretim üyesi olarak görev yapmaktadır. Elif Eşiyok'un çalışmaları, medya kullanımı ve beden imajı, tüketici etiği ve materyalizm gibi konulara odaklanmaktadır.

Kahramanmaraş'ta doğdu. Lisans (2015),  yüksek lisans (2017) ve doktorasını (2023) Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümünde tamamladı. 2017 yılından beri aynı Üniversite'de öğretim elemanı olarak çalışmaktadır.  Bilgi, bilim, siyaset, kent ve kültür sosyolojisi alanlarında çalışmaları olan Akçakaya; özel olarak komplo inancı ve komplo teorileri konusuna ilgi duymaktadır. Renklerin Sosyolojisi ve Dijitalleşen Türkiye'de Komplo Zihniyeti  isimli kitaplarının yanında; ulusal ve uluslararası nitelikte pek çok bildirisi, makalesi ve kitap bölümü vardır. TÜBİTAK ve BAP projelerinde görev alan Akçakaya, çeşitli dergilerin editöryal süreçlerinde de rol almaktadır. Ulusal ve uluslararası çapta işbirlikleri kurarak, ilgi alanları dahilinde çalışmaya devam etmektedir.