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Prof. Dr. Ömer Alanka, 1981 yılında Erzurum’da doğdu. Ankara Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesinden 2005 yılında mezun oldu. Atatürk Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesinde 2005 yılında Araştırma Görevlisi olarak göreve başladı. 2008 yılında Atatürk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Gazetecilik Anabilim Dalında Yüksek Lisansını tamamladı. 2009 tarihinde Ege Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesine Araştırma Görevlisi olarak atandı. 2012 yılında Ege Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Gazetecilik Anabilim Dalında “Görüntünün Ontolojisi ve Kavramsal Fotoğraf” başlıklı tezi ile Dr. unvanını aldı. 2012 yılında Atatürk Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesinde Arş. Gör. Dr. Unvanı ile çalışmaya devam etti. 2014 yılında Atatürk Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesinde Yrd. Doç. Dr. Unvanını aldı. 2018 yılında Gazetecilik ve Medya Çalışmaları alanında Doçentlik unvanını aldı. 2022 yılında Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesine Doç. Dr. olarak görev aldı. 2023 yılında Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesinde Prof. Dr. olarak atandı. 2023 tarihinden bu yana Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dekanı olarak görev yapmaktadır. Alanka, akademik görevlerinin yanı sıra Bilişim Anabilim Dalı Başkanlığı, Gazetecilik Bölüm Başkanlığı, Dekan Yardımcılığı ve Dekanlık gibi idari görevleri de yerine getirdi. Alanka, Atatürk Üniversitesi Açık ve Uzaktan Öğretim Fakültesinde Yeni Medya ve Gazetecilik bölümünü kurup koordinatörlüğünü yürüttü. Ayrıca Alanka, Atatürk Üniversitesi Dijital Dönüşüm ve Yazılım Ofisinde Yürütme Kurulu Üyeliğinde de görev almıştır. Alanka, Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi’nde Senatörlük ve Rektörlük Yönetim Kurul Üyeliği ve Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi Kurma ve Yaşatma Vakfı Üyeliği görevlerini de yerine getirmektedir. Çok sayıda yüksek lisans ve doktora öğrencisi yetiştiren Alanka’nın çalışma alanları arasında sinema çalışmaları, dijital dönüşüm, sayısallaşma, medya çalışmaları, kitle iletişim sistemleri vb. yer almaktadır. Alanka'nın ulusal ve uluslararası düzeyde çok sayıda kitap, makale, sempozyum ve proje çalışmaları bulunmaktadır. Alanka evli ve iki çocuk babasıdır.
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Field Editors
Dr. Semanur Sivritepe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism at the Faculty of Communication, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University. She completed her undergraduate education in Journalism at Selçuk University and also pursued a double major in Public Relations and Publicity. She earned her master’s degree with a thesis focusing on students’ perspectives on media literacy education. She received her PhD in Journalism with a dissertation analyzing the representation practices of elderly people in media texts within the context of poverty, social exclusion, and social inclusion. Her academic interests include journalism studies, media research, digital journalism, political communication, social media analysis, and representations of aging. She has authored book chapters and peer-reviewed articles on social media usage, theoretical dimensions of political advertising, news as a form of literacy, and the transformation of journalism in the digital era. In her research, she critically examines the intersections of media discourse, representation, digital culture, and social change.
Editorial Board
Prof. Dr. Sedat Cereci İstanbul Üniversitesi Basın Yayın Yüksekokulu Gazetecilik ve Halkla İlişkiler Bölümü’nden mezun oldu. Üniversite yıllarında başladığı gazetecilik yaşamında, çok sayıda gazete, dergi ve yayınevinde muhabir, redaktör ve editör olarak çalıştı. Radyo ve Televizyon Anabilim dalında yükseklisans ve doktora yaptı. Klasik Türk Müziği eğitimi aldı. TRT İstanbul Radyosu’nda müzik programları, özel kanallar için kültür programları hazırladı. Sahneye çıktı, konser verdi, tiyatro oyunlarında rol aldı. Doktora eğitiminde belgesel film konusunu çalıştı ve 1992 yılından itibaren belgesel film çekmeye başladı. Belgesellerinde çoğunlukla kültürel ve etnik konuları ele aldı. 30 civarında belgesel çekti ve 80den fazla ülkede film festivallerine katıldı, ödüller aldı. Dünyanın değişik coğrafyalarında fotoğraflar çekti, sergiler açtı, ödüller aldı. 37 kitabı, 100den fazla makalesi yayımlandı. Doğu Anadolu’da ilk kez belgesel film yarışması düzenledi, Türkiye’de ilk defa Doğu Anadolu’da bir köyde film galası düzenledi. 100den fazla ülkede konferanslar verdi, bilimsel etkinliklere katıldı. Türkçenin yanı sıra İngilizce, Almanca, Arapça ve Kürtçe bilmektedir.
Born in 1979 in Istanbul, Turkey, I completed my early education before earning a BA in Radio, Television, and Cinema from Istanbul University in 2002. Later, I pursued two MA degrees: one in Philosophy and Religious Studies in 2014, and the other in Radio, Television and Cinema in 2016. In 2022, I successfully defended my PhD at Selçuk University's Institute of Social Sciences, where my thesis focused on the interplay between form and reality in Andrey Tarkovsky's films. I now serve as an assistant professor at Giresun University's Tirebolu Faculty of Communication, engaging in scholarly research that explores the intricate relationship between cinema and philosophy.
Turkish Language Editor
Foreign Language Editor
Dr & Dr Tülây ATAY currently teaches at Hatay Mustafa Kemal University (HMKU), Antakya, Hatay, Faculty of Communication, Department of Journalism as a faculty member (Assistant Professor) and a researcher. She is a Turkish Citizen. She was born and bred in Istanbul, Turkey and graduated from Istanbul University. She holds a BA degree in Mass-Media Communication & Journalism & PR. She has a Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology and Gender & Women’s Studies. She is a co-author of the book called “Gender & Sex and Taboo in the Contemporary Primitive & Traditional Societies” in the Turkish Language based on her MA thesis. The book is written from the perspective of women’s and gender studies. She was one of the co-founders of the Centre for Women’s Studies of Mustafa Kemal University. She served and was in charge as one of the deputy directors of the Centre for Women’s Studies of Mustafa Kemal University, Antakya, Hatay, Turkey. She previously worked as a “business developer” for many SMEs in the various fields such as automotive, textile etc. She worked as an Assistant Producer for Turkish Radio Television State Company (TRT) between 1995-1996. She earned her PhD from the Department of Agriculture Economics and Extensions at Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey in October 2013. She produced her Ph.D. thesis on the division of labour amongst ethnically different two villages near Hatay province in the context of changing social life and Women’s & Gender Studies. Tülay’s areas of interests are women empowerment and women’s studies using other disciplines. She is holding a sociology BA degree obtained from Open Faculty, Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey. She is a PhD candidate at Journalism, İstanbul University, İstanbul, Turkey. She was a temporary National Gender Consultant for Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). She lived in the UK and USA for a while. She has been in Portugal, Slovenia, Ukraine, Scotland, Romania, Holland, Italy, Spain, Estonia, UAE, Malaysia, Poland, Czeck Republic and France for academic purposes. She is a single mom and, has an adorable daughter, Dafne (Daphne, the nymph) who has been an exchange student and 11th grader at Halifax West High School, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. They have been living happily in Antakya, Hatay, Turkey since 1998. She was a scientist-in-residence at Paris Lodron University of Salzburg financially supported by GendUp and Salzburg Stadt (Municipality), Salzburg, Austria. She is also currently engaging with the FoTRRIS-H2020 project (women and immigration) run by Complutense University of Madrid. She recently chaired the MEDCOM 2017, KL, Malaysia.
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Scientific Advisory Board
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.
A historian of communications and information, Dan Schiller has worked at Temple University, UCLA, UCSD, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he is Professor Emeritus.
Born in Diyarbakır. He graduated from the Journalism Department of İstanbul University Faculty of Communication in 2001. He completed his master’s degree in 2005 at İstanbul University Institute of Social Sciences, Journalism Program, with a thesis titled "The Place and Importance of Birikim Magazine in the Socio-Cultural Environment of the 1975-1980 Period." He earned his PhD in the same department with dissertation titled "The Public Intellectual and the Media."
Aydeniz’s personal and academic interests encompass media and communication studies in Turkey, knowledge and information production, intellectuals, the socialization of knowledge, media sociology, sociology of knowledge, decolonization of knowledge, media literacy, and digital game. During his postdoctoral research in 2014-2015, he conducted studies at the University of Cambridge.
Some of his academic outputs published as books: Medyayı Tanımak (Understanding the Media), Medyayı Kavramak (Grasbing the Media) and Bilinçli Medya Kullanımı (Conscious Media Usage) (Ministry of Family and Social Policies Press), Türkiye'de Medya ve İletişim Çalışmalar- Alan Tarihyazımına Giriş- (Media and Communication Studies in Turkey: An Introduction to Historiography of the Field).
He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the Media Literacy Research Journal, the first academic journal in this field in Turkey (https://medyaokuryazari.org). He positions and develops The Journal of Media Literacy Studies as a platform for production and exchanging knowledge and ideas on new developments in media literacy research and education. More than just an academic journal, it fosters discussions on existing scholarly knowledge and inspires new research through a series of events, including Thesis Presentation, Method Talks, One Article One Author, One Book One Author, Research Experience, Digital Game Research and Digital Experiences, providing a forum for presenting, sharing, and debating academic studies and intellectual insights. These discussions can be followed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@medyaokuryazari.
He continues his academic career as a faculty member in the Public Relations and Publicity Department at Marmara University Faculty of Communication.
Prof. Dr. Hasip Pektaş was born on March 20, 1953, in Ermenek, Karaman, Türkiye. He graduated from Akşehir Teacher Training School in 1971 and from the Department of Art Education at Gazi Education Institute in 1974. Until 1982, he worked as an art teacher in teacher training schools and secondary education institutions.
Between 1982 and 1987, he served at the Department of Graphic Arts within the Faculty of Education, Ondokuz Mayıs University in Samsun. From 1987 to 2007, he was a faculty member in the Department of Graphic Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Hacettepe University. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995 and to Full Professor in 2001. Between 2003 and 2006, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Hacettepe University. From 2005 to 2007, he was the Founding Director of the Hacettepe University Art Museum.
Between 2008 and 2017, he worked as a faculty member in the Department of Visual Communication Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Işık University. He is currently the Head of the Department of Visual Communication Design in the Faculty of Communication at İstinye University. He is also the Founding President of the Istanbul Exlibris Society and Director of the Istanbul Exlibris Museum.
Prof. Pektaş has devoted significant effort to promoting and popularizing exlibris art in Türkiye. In 1996, he published a book on exlibris. His works have been accepted into the collections of Exlibris Museums in Denmark, Belgium, China, and Italy. He has held thirty-three solo exhibitions and participated in numerous national and international juried and group exhibitions. He has delivered many seminars and workshops on exlibris and taught courses at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium, within the framework of the Erasmus Program.
He has organized numerous major events, including five International Exlibris Competitions, an International Printmaking Biennial, the 33rd FISAE International Exlibris Congress, a National Student Exlibris Competition, and two National Exlibris Congresses.
Awards and Honors
- 2022 – Herzegovina Museum Award, Emir Kusturica International Exlibris Competition, Vojvodina Exlibris Society, Serbia.
- 2021 – Special Award / Diploma, Trakai 700 International Exlibris Competition, Trakai, Lithuania.
- 2009 – Second Prize, Yaroslavl International Exlibris Competition, Yaroslavl, Russia.
- 2008 – Honorable Mention, 32nd International Exlibris Biennial, Beijing, China.
- 2006 – Honorable Mention, 4th International Graphic Arts Biennial, Francavilla al Mare, Italy.
- 2006 – First Prize, Hacettepe University 40th Anniversary Logo Design Competition, Ankara, Türkiye.
- 2003 – Professional Service Award, South Rotary Club, Adana, Türkiye.
- 1996 – First Prize, 3rd Italy–Türkiye Exlibris Biennial, Ortona, Italy.
- 1989 – Ministry of Culture Special Award, AFSAD 7th National Photography Competition, Türkiye.
- 1988 – Achievement Award (Slide Category), 1st National Photography Associations Competition, Türkiye.
- 1974 – Special Award (Printmaking Category), Şeref Akdik Painting Competition, Türkiye.
Prof. Dr. Hasip Pektaş is widely recognized as one of the pioneering figures in the development, promotion, and institutionalization of exlibris art in Türkiye, making significant contributions to graphic design, visual communication, printmaking, and art education throughout his distinguished academic and artistic career.
İlker Erdoğan, İzmir’de doğdu. İlkokul, ortaokul ve lise eğitimini İzmir’de tamamladı. 2001 yılında Selçuk Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi’nden (Gazetecilik Bölümü) mezun oldu. Lisans eğitiminden sonra, Ege Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Gazetecilik (Genel Gazetecilik) Ana Bilim Dalı’nda yüksek lisans (2005) ve doktora (2009) programlarını bitirdi. 2004 yılında Erciyes Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Gazetecilik Bölümü’nde araştırma görevlisi oldu. 2005-2009 yılları arasında Ege Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Gazetecilik Bölümü’nde araştırma görevlisi olarak çalıştı. Haber çerçeveleme, görsel çerçeveleme, medyada temsil, televizyon ve yeni medya alanlarında çalışmalar yapmıştır. Gazetecilik, haber okuryazarlığı ve yeni medya kültürleri konularında çalışmalarını sürdürmektedir. Medya Okuryazarlığı: Türler ve Kavramlar; Anglo-Amerikan Eğlence Endüstrisinde Televizyon Program Formatları: Reality Show, Eğlence ve Yarışma Programları adlı kitapların yazarıdır. Medyada Hegemonik Erkek(lik) ve Temsil; Türkiye’de Televizyon Formatları: Eleştirel Çalışmalar; Medya Okuryazarlığı: Türler, İzleyici ve Çözümleme adlı kitapların editörüdür. Halen İzmir Kâtip Çelebi Üniversitesi Sosyal ve Beşeri Bilimler Fakültesi Medya ve İletişim Bölümü’nde görev yapmaktadır.
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