Research

Research Priority Areas

  • Digital Story Telling
  • Gender Communication and Media Studies
  • New Media Research
  • Everyday Life Research
  • Social Memory Research
  • Intercultural Communication and Migration Studies
  • Creative Industries, Cinema and Video Studies
  • Visual Communication and Visual Culture

Sub Study Topics

  • • Food
  • • material culture
  • • Identity
  • • Interpersonal communication
  • • Cultural encounters
  • • Gender studies
  • • urban studies
  • • identity studies
  • • migration studies
  • • Ethnography
  • • Generation studies
  • • Youth
  • • narrative studies
  • • Reception studies
  • • new media studies
  • • Advertising
  • • popular culture
  • • TV Studies
  • • Communication and language studies
  • • Social conflicts and violence
  • • Conflict resolution processes
  • • political communication
  • • Communication philosophy
  • • media philosophy
  • • digital ethnography
  • • feminist methodology
  • • Sociology of emotions
  • • critical linguistics
  • • visual communication
  • • discourse analysis
  • • semiotics
  • • memory studies
  • • critical pedagogy
  • • Turkey's political history and social memory
  • • Transformation of urban space and collective memory of the city
  • • Generations, political events and remembrance in Turkey
  • • Memory of social movements
  • • Health campaigns
  • • Advocacy in the media
  • • health media
  • • critical health literacy
  • • Health communication

Key Words

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