Journal Boards

Owner

Hacettepe Üniversitesi

Environment Policy, Urbanization Policies, Urban Field Management, Local Administrations , Public Administration

Prof. Dr. Uğur Sadioğlu was born in 1983 in İzmir. He is a faculty member at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Hacettepe University. Currently, he serves as the Deputy Director of the Hacettepe University Local Governments Application and Research Center, a member of the Editorial Board of the Hacettepe University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences, the Director of the Hacettepe University Lifelong Learning Center, and the Acting Dean of the Hacettepe University Faculty of Communication. Sadioğlu graduated from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Hacettepe University in 2006. Between 2008 and 2010, he was a visiting doctoral researcher at Duisburg-Essen University in Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2012 with a dissertation comparing local government reforms in Germany and Turkey. During 2015-2016, he served as a visiting faculty member at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics at the University of Cologne in Germany, where he also taught courses. His main research areas include public administration theory, new trends in public administration, Turkey's administrative structure, local governance and politics, urbanization policy, urban transformation, smart cities, e-government, and development management. He has worked as a researcher on various projects, including the "Local Administration Reform Project – Ministry of Interior, 2010" and the "Neighborhood Management Research Project, TODAİE and T.C. Ministry of Development, 2012-2013," which focused on local government reforms in Turkey. He also led the "Strengthening the Social Dimension in the Preparation and Implementation of Urban Transformation Projects – T.C. Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, 2017-2018" project. Additionally, he contributed as a researcher to the TÜBİTAK 1003 Project titled "Sustainable Urban Policies: Urban Regions in Turkey from a Quality of Life Perspective." He has participated in projects on local government reforms in Germany and decentralization policies in Europe. His work includes several national and international books on Turkey's administrative structure, Turkish local governments, and local governance in Germany. Recently, he has presented numerous papers at national and international conferences and published many articles in national and international journals on local governments and public administration reform outcomes in Turkey.

Editor

Dr. Emre Canpolat

Hacettepe Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi

Media Industry Studies, Communication and Media Studies, Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies, Communication and Media Studies (Other), New Media

Associate Editors

GÇ

Dr. Gökçe Baydar Çavdar

HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ

Communication Studies, Gender and Politics, Consumption and Everyday Life, Communication and Media Studies (Other), Television Sociology

ŞÖ

Dr. Şule Karataş Özaydın

HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ

Communication Studies, Social Media Studies, New Media

OÇ

Dr. Ozan Çavdar

HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ

Communication and Media Studies, Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies

Publication Editor

Instructor Erkin Gökçer Erdem

Hacettepe Üniversitesi

Web Design, Interactive Media, Internet Publishing, Visual Communication Design, Animation

Editorial Assistants & Editorial Contacts

Res. Assist. Adnan Toygar Ercan

HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ

Cinema Theories, Cinema Studies

Language Editors

Dr. Beren Kandemir

HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ

Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies, Social Psychology, Communication Psychology, Disabled Groups

Res. Assist. Dr. Ezgi Bugey

HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ, RADYO, TELEVİZYON VE SİNEMA BÖLÜMÜ

Communication and Media Studies (Other), Movie Review, Men's Studies, Cinema and Aesthetics, Cinema Sociology, Cinema Studies (Other), Gender and Politics

İD

Res. Assist. İrem Doğanışık

HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ

Communication Studies

Social Media Editors

GÇ

Dr. Gökçe Baydar Çavdar

HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ

Communication Studies, Gender and Politics, Consumption and Everyday Life, Communication and Media Studies (Other), Television Sociology

Asst. Prof. Dr. Göze Orhon

HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ

Cultural Theory, Cultural Studies (Other), Culture, Representation and Identity

Doktorasını Essex Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü’nde tamamladı. 12 Eylül’ün kolektif belleği üzerine yazdığı doktora tezi “The Weight of the Past: Memory and Turkey’s 12 September Coup” ismiyle kitaplaştı. Hacettepe Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi’nde öğretim üyesi. Bellek çalışmaları, bellek sosyolojisi ve duygu yapıları olarak nostalji ve melankoli meseleleriyle ilgileniyor.

Editorial Board

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Asli Telli

University of Cologne

Media Studies, Social Media Studies, Media Literacy, Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies, Communication Theories, Communication Studies, Communication and Media Studies, Communication Sociology

Asst. Prof. Dr. Besim Can Zırh

Ortadoğu Teknik Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü

Urban Anthropolgy, Anthropology (Other), Physical Anthropology and Paleoanthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Religion Anthropology, Migration Sociology, Sociology of Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism

Besim Can Zırh Ortadoğu Teknik Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü’nden doktor öğretim görevlisi olarak çalışmaktadır. Kendisi aynı üniversitenin sosyoloji bölümünden 2002 yılında lisans, siyaset bilimi bölümden ise 2005 yılında yüksek lisans derecesi almıştır. Doktora çalışmasını University College London, antropoloji bölümünde Alevi göçmenlerin Avrupa’da oluşturdukları ulus-ötesi toplumsal ağlar üzerine tamamlamıştır. (E-posta: besimcan@gmail.com). Besim Can Zırh is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at Middle East Technical University (Ankara) where he also received his BA degree in Sociology in 2002, MSc degree in Political Sciences in 2005. He received his PhD degree in Social Anthropology from the University College London in 2012. His PhD is based on multi-sited ethnographic research focusing on the migration experiences of Alevis and their transnational networks in Europe (E-mail: besimcan@gmail.com).

BÖ

Prof. Dr. Burak Özçetin

İHSAN DOĞRAMACI BİLKENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ

Media Studies, Political Communication

Asst. Prof. Dr. Burcu Canar

Hacettepe Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi İletişim Bilimleri Bölümü

Journalism, Communication Studies, Communication Theories, Arts and Cultural Policy, Communication and Media Studies

EÇ

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emek Çaylı

hacettepe üniversitesi

Communication and Media Studies

Asst. Prof. Dr. Göze Orhon

HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ

Cultural Theory, Cultural Studies (Other), Culture, Representation and Identity

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülsüm Depeli

Hacettepe Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi

Visual Cultures, Organisational, Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication, Migrant Cultural Studies, Photography

Hacettepe Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi

İletişim Bilimleri Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Bozok

Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality, Environmental Anthropology, Women's Studies, Migration Sociology, Sociology of Gender, Environmental Sociology, Sociology, Social and Cultural Anthropology

Prof. Dr. Mutlu Binark

Hacettepe Üniversitesi

Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies, Cultural Studies of Nation and Region, Communication Studies, Communication and Media Studies, New Communication Technologies, Asian Cultural Studies, Studies of Asian Society

Mutlu Binark is Professor at the Department of Radio‐Television and Cinema, and Chair of the Division of Informatics and Information Technologies at the Faculty of Communication, Hacettepe University since 2014. She is assigned as an Editor of Moment Journal since July, 2017. She is graduated from Ankara University, School of Journalism and Broadcasting in 1990. Her MA thesis centered upon the field research on the reception practices of soap operas by women audiences (1992); her Ph.D. dissertation focused upon gendered uses of new media technologies both in Japan and Turkey (1999). She had been awarded with the Monbukagakusho scholarship from 1994 to 1997, and conducted her Ph.D. research at Tokyo University, Graduate School of Social Sciences. She had been granted by Danish Government Post‐Doctorate Research Grant in 2000 and by this opportunity she had been in Aarhus University, Faculty of Media Studies. In 2002 she had been granted with the Post‐Doctorate Research Grant by the Turkish Sciences Academy and conducted an ethnographic field research on the reception of Turkish tv., especially tv. dramas in Denmark, at the Southern Denmark University at Odense. She has graduated from Faculty of Language, History and Literacy, University of Ankara, Department of Sinology as well in 2004. Since 2014 she has been a graduate student in Department of Informatics Law, at Hacettepe University. She has completed in success “Digital Game Culture and Internet Cafe Usage Patterns Of Young People in Turkey: Online and Offline Identity Exercises, Immobile Socialization and Virtual Careere‐An Ethnographic Study in Ankara” (107K039 Research Project) and supported financially by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. This Project is chosen as a success story by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey in 2010. She has completed in success “Ethical Problems in New Media Environments” (111k368 Research Project), which was also funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey in 2012. She had been a member of research team, worked on the use of social media by political parties and their leaders in Turkey. This research project, titled as “The Evaluation of Social Media Environments in terms of Political Communication Applications: The Use of the Facebook and Twitter by Political Parties and Leaders during the 2011 General Elections in Turkey”, has been also funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, and successfully ended in 2013. Recently she had been successfully completed two research projects, granted by Hacettepe University, Scientific Research Division, as following: “Trolls in Twitter” (2015), and “Conduction a social science research on social media and data ethics policy in Turkey” (2016). She is a founding member of Alternative Informatics Association which is one of the leading NGO on the freedom of speech on Internet and organizing civic campaigns on personal data protection on both e‐government applications and ISP’s applications in Turkey (See http://www.alternatifbilisim.org/wiki/Ana_Sayfa). She had been a member of advisory board of the Social Sciences Research Department of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey among 2012‐2016. She teaches media theories, media sociology, media literacy, and new media culture. She is currently working on data ethics, media literacy, creative content industries and cultural policy. Her coming research project will be on “The Creative Content Industry and the Transnatiolization of Hallyu (Korean Wave): The Policy Making of Korean Government and the Contribution of Conglomerates (Chaebols)”, granted by Hacettepe University, Scientific Research Division from November 2017 to September 2018. She will carry the field research in Busan University of Foreign Studies, in Busan-Korea from March 1st to August 31st, 2018. Her recent publications are following: İnternet, Toplum, Kültür (2005) (co‐edited), Eleştirel Medya Okuryazarlığı (2007) (co‐authored), Yeni Medya Çalışmaları (2007), Kültür Endüstrisi Olarak Dijital Oyun (2008) (co‐authored), co‐edited a book on digital game culture in Turkey, Dijital Oyun Rehberi (2009), co‐author of Toplumsal Paylaşım Ağı Facebook (2009, an author of a book chapter in Yeni Medyada Nefret Söylemi (2010), STÖ’ler için Bilişim Rehberi (2011) (with K.Löker), Türkiye’de Dijital Gözetim (co‐author) (2012), Yeni Medya ve Etik (co‐author) (2013), Siyasetin Yeni Hali: Vaka‐i Sosyal Medya (co‐author) (2014), and recently Yeni Medya Çalışmalarında Araştırma Yöntem ve Teknikleri (2014, 2015). She is also a co‐author of several book chapters published by well‐known publishers such as Peter Lang, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Lexington, Springer and Routledge. She has published articles in European Journal of Communication, Observatorio, Kültür ve İletişim, Bilig. She had been an advisor at the radio programme called ”Yeni Medya Eski İnsan/New Media Old Person” on Turkish Radio Television Broadcasting Company, broadcasting on Radio 1‐ Ankara, from 2016 to 2018. The programme was on air each Mondays from 11.00 to 12.00 live. Her blogs are: www.yenimedya.wordpress.com and www.dijitaloyunkulturu.wordpress.com.

Prof. Dr. Suavi Aydın

HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ

Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies (Other)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Durna Tezcan

ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ

Communication and Media Studies

Yüksek lisans ve doktorasını Ankara Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Gazetecilik Anabilim Dalında tamamlamıştır. Ankara Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Gazetecilik Bölümünde 2002 yılında araştırma görevlisi olarak başladığı görevine 2017 Ocak ayında görevinden uzaklaştırılana kadar devam etmiştir. Barış İmzacısı olması nedeniyle KHK listesine adı eklenerek akademiden uzaklaştırılan Durna, çalıştığı kurumda Haberi Okumak, Haber Sosyolojisi, Medya ve Etik, Etik Modernite ve İletişim, Şiddet Siyaset ve Medya, Akademik Araştırma, Yazma ve Sunma gibi lisans ve yüksek lisans düzeyinde dersler vermiştir. 2011-2012 yılları arasında TUBİTAK Doktora Sonrası Araştırma Bursu ile Amsterdam’da bulunan Uluslararası Sosyal Tarih Enstitüsünde çalışmıştır. Medyada temsil, basın tarihi, medya ve etik, medya sosyolojisi, yeni medya etnografisi, Türkiye’de aydınlar gibi konularda ulusal ve uluslararası akademik mecralarda yayınlanmış çok sayıda eseri mevcuttur. Uğur Mumcu Araştırmacı Gazetecilik Vakfının Genel Yayın Yönetmenliğini yürütmeye devam ederken Nisan 2023’te mahkeme kararıyla ihraç edildiği üniversitedeki görevine iade edilmiştir. Üniversiteden uzak kaldığı süre boyunca pek çok sivil toplum kuruluşuna hak temelli gazetecilik, medya okuryazarlığı, dezenformasyonla mücadele başlıklarıyla eğitimler vermiş, Almanya’daki Duisburg-Essen Üniversitesi’nin Türkistik Bölümü’de üç yıl boyunca ders açmıştır. Medyaport.net adlı haber sitesinin kuruluşunda görev üstlenmiş iki yıl boyunca burada haftalık analizler yazmıştır. Halen Mart 2023'te mahkeme kararıyla döndürüldüğü Ankara Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi'ndeki görevine devam etmektedir. 2023-2024 yılları arasında bir yıldan fazla Sorbonne Üniversitesi GRIPIC'te misafir araştırmacı olarak görev yapmıştır.

ZÖ

Prof. Dr. Zeynep Özarslan

ÇUKUROVA ÜNİVERSİTESİ

Cinema Theories, Movie Review, Communication Studies, New Media, Cultural and Creative Industries

Zeynep Özarslan is a professor of communication studies at Çukurova University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Journalism, Adana, Türkiye. Her research interests encompass new media, film studies, and the creative and cultural industries, specifically digital surveillance, digital inequalities, digital violence, hate speech, ethics in AI.

Prof. Dr. Metin Yüksel

HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ

Persian Language, Literature and Culture, Contemporary History of Iran, Contemporary History of Middle East

Prof. Dr. Günseli Bayraktutan

BAŞKENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ

Communication Studies

Asst. Prof. Dr. Gülay Acar Göktepe

ZONGULDAK BÜLENT ECEVİT ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ, RADYO, TELEVİZYON VE SİNEMA BÖLÜMÜ

Communication Sociology, Sociology, Cultural Theory, Communication and Media Studies (Other)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu Sımsek

Hacettepe Üniversitesi

Communication and Media Studies, Communication Studies, New Media, Gender and Politics

Asst. Prof. Dr. Serra Sezgin

ANKARA BİLİM ÜNİVERSİTESİ

New Media, Media Technologies, Communication Studies

Last Update Time: 19 May 2026