Gül Esra Atalay completed her undergraduate education at Mimar Sinan University, Department of Sociology in 2002. In 2008, she received her master's degree from Yeditepe University, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Department of Radio, TV and Cinema. She received her doctorate degree from Istanbul University, Department of Journalism in 2014 with her thesis titled "The Place of Comedy and Irony in Propaganda: The Cinema of Michael Moore". In 2014, she started to work as an Assistant Professor. In 2020, she received the title of Associate Professor in the field of Communication Studies. Since 2016, she has been working at Üsküdar University, Faculty of Communication.
Academic fields of study are as follows: new media, social media, sociology of communication, digital media and children, media representations and journalism.


