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.

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.

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.

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.