MASTER THESES
Ozat, M. (2026). An Analysis of Time and Space in Iranian New Wave Cinema within the Framework of the Chronotope Concept. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Esennur SİRER
Akmaz, İ. (2025). Subjective Forms of Spatial Experience in a Liminal Space: A Phenomenological Study of Everyday Life in the Grand Bazaar. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Bağcı, E. (2025). The Rhythm of Everyday Life and Subjective Forms of Spatial Experience in Metropolitan Areas: The Case of the Arcades on İstiklal Avenue. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Birankur, M. (2025). Digital Media, the New Cultural Universe, and Youth: An Empirical Field Study. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Nazife GÜNGÖR
Eski, R. (2025). The Impact of Postmodernism on the Transformation of Advertising: An Analysis of Luxury Fashion Brand Advertisements. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Nazife GÜNGÖR
Oymak, S. (2025). The Influence of New Media on Television Series and Film Production: A Case Study of Sıfır Bir. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Denizcan KABAŞ
Özdağ, E. N. (2025). Slow Journalism in the Digital Age: A Qualitative Study. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Gül Esra ATALAY
Yurddaş, Ö. A. (2025). The Classical Turkish Music Milieu as a Cultural Performance Space in Üsküdar: Urban Space and Sociocultural Differentiation. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Aliyev, F. (2024). The Transformation of Theatre as a Visual Art Form in Digital Culture. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Esennur SİRER
Aras, H. (2024). The Uses and Gratifications Effect on Digital Game Audiences' Preference for YouTube Platform: A Study on Valorant Game. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Denizcan KABAŞ
Aydın, Tarık F. (2024). Social Construction of Citizenship Consciousness and Identity in the Process of Modernization of Cultural Practices in Urban Space: The Case of Bayrampaşa Yıldırım and Kadıköy Erenköy Neighborhoods. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Çelikdal, B. (2024). Women's Struggle for Public Space as a Political Revolt: March 8 Feminist Night March and the Appropriation of Space. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Okatalı, N. (2024). Social and Cultural Representations in Turkish Folk Music: A Thematic Analysis. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Nazife GÜNGÖR
Bilgin, Ş. (2023). Televisual Representations of Crime and Deviance in Urban Space: Müge Anlı ile Tatlı Sert Example. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Turan, A. C. (2023). The Impact of Turkish Television Series on Youth in Azerbaijan. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Nazife GÜNGÖR
Yıldırım, M. (2023). The Russia–Ukraine War as a Case of Imperialism and Its Media Coverage in the Press. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Nazife GÜNGÖR
Eroğlu, Y. (2022). Personalized Spaces and Fashion Ecology in Postmodern Culture: Nişantaşı Case. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Karausta, Demirel B. (2022). Opera Art and Spatial Representations in the Process of Cultural Reproduction. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Kayğusuz, Z. (2022). The Use of Mythological Representations in Painting Art in Socio-Cultural Context in Social Media Advertising: A Research on Instagram. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Murat, P. (2022). Fragments of Everyday Life in the Dichotomy of City and Country in New Turkish Cinema: Anomic Representations in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Cinema. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Okutan, N. (2022). Gentrification Practices in Urban Areas in the Process of Ideological Reproduction of Everyday Life: The Case of the Historic Peninsula. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Aksu, B. (2021). Consumption of Urban Spaces in the Neoliberal Era: Karaköy as an Example of Global Urban Fiction. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Bulut, R. (2021). Love and Time in Cinema: An Analysis of Time to Love (1965) and Innocence (1997). Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eren Ekin ERCAN
Çelik, Işıklı Z. (2021). Representation of Everyday Life Practices in Reha Erdem's Cinema: Deconstruction of Social Space and Time. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Duman, Berkan D. (2021). Consumption Culture in the Covid-19 Pandemic Process: A Field Study on Shopping Habits. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eren Ekin ERCAN
Eyubova, K. (2021). Spatial Practices in the Capitalist Production Process and the Transformation of Consumption Spaces: The Examples of Üsküdar Bazaar and Capitol Shopping Center. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Kaptan, E. (2021). The Ethos of Everyday Life in Postmodern Culture and the Idea of Self as a Practice of Self: The Case of Lifestyle Programs and TLC. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Meço, S. (2021). Otherness of Modernity: Tony Gatlif Films in the Context of the Representation of the Nomadic and Migrant Other in Cinema: The Case of Gadjo Dilo, Exils and Korkoro. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Yıldıray KESGİN
Tak, N. (2021). The Relationship between Cinema and Photography: Making Sense of Photography as a Visual Signifier in Cinema in Abbas Kiyarustemi's “Taste of Cherry” and “The Wind Will Drive Us”. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Hale YAYLALI
Altınok, İ. (2020). Media Coverage of Violence Against Women: Discourse Analysis of News on Emine Bulut's Murder. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gül Esra ATALAY
Durukan, D. (2020). Gastronomy Spaces as an Experience Space in the Capitalist Transformation Process of Urban Spaces: Üsküdar and Beşiktaş Examples. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Keskin, Ş. (2020). Evaluation of Female Character Representations in Çalıkuşu Novel and TV Series from a Feminist Perspective. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Can DİKER
Ünlüer, E. (2020). Selfie in the Context of Popular Culture in Turkey. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Süleyman İRVAN
Yapraklı, Emre M. (2020). The Development of Culture and Arts Journalism and Today's Culture and Arts Journalism. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Süleyman İRVAN
Bilen, Kartal M. (2019). The Effect of Culture on Corporate Identity Formation: The Case of Iskenderun Technical University. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Nazife GÜNGÖR
Hansu, E. (2019). An Empirical Study on Secondary School Youth in Terms of New Media Literacy. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Can DİKER
Kara, K. (2019). An Empirical Study on the Counter League as an Example of a Sports Subculture. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Nazife GÜNGÖR
Karaman, S. (2019). The Transformation of Journalism and Rhetoric in Turkey. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Can DİKER
Koç. E. (2019). Evaluation of the Perception of the East in Western Cinema in the Context of Orientalism: The Children of Calcutta Movie Example. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Can DİKER
Konağ, O. (2019). Post-2016 Social Construction of Risk Society Discourse in Turkish Television Series. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Ünal, D. (2019). A Qualitative Research on the Transformation of Journalism in New Media. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gül Esra ATALAY
Güner, U. (2018). A Qualitative Analysis on Pop Music Published on Youtube Platform. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Nazife GÜNGÖR
İnce, E. (2018). Changing Coffee Culture with Popular Culture in Turkey. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Süleyman İRVAN
MASTER PROJECTS
Albayrak, B. (2024). Street Art as a Site of Political Discourse and Public Space: The Case of Banksy. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
Dönmez Gül, L. (2024). Parents' Media Use Practices in the Digital Age: Early Childhood. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Denizcan KABAŞ
Şeker, Emre Y. (2020). After the September 12 Coup, Cinematic Representation of Everyday Life in Turkey: The Case of Beynelmilel. Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cem TUTAR
INTERNATIONAL BOOK / BOOK CHAPTER
Bilgin, Ş. (2025). The Representation of Crime and Deviance in Television Media. Istanbul: İkinci Adam Publications.
Durukan, D. (2024). Gastronomy, Culture and Media in Everyday Life (English Edition). Istanbul: Doruk Publications.
Celikli, D., Topacoglu, H. (2023). Mainstream Media Employees' Perspective on Youtube Journalism in the Context of the Transformation of Journalism. Ercan, E. E., (ed.), Internet, News, Journalism in (pp. 169-213). Konya: Education Publishing House.
Durukan, D. (2022). Gastronomy, Culture and Media in Everyday Life (Turkish Edition). Istanbul: Doruk Publications.
Diker, C., & Koç, E. (2021). The Creation of Sustainable Orientalism in Cinema. In Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond (pp. 574-590). IGI Global.
Tutar, C. (2021). Dynamics of Everyday Life on Television. Istanbul: Doruk Publications.
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARTICLES
Çakıcı, Z. & Meriç, E. & Cesur, S. Z. & Arslan, Ş. G. (2026). Algorithmic Humanitarianism: the International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM) Strategic Use of TikTok to Shape Migration Narratives in the Platform Age. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 1-25. May 2026.
Tutar, C. & Kaptan, E. (2023). Political-Anatomy of Outsiders in the Context of the Development of Political Technology in the Modern State: Z “Immortal” Movie Analysis. SineFilozofi Journal 5th International Cinema and Philosophy Symposium Full Textbook. 22-36.
Kaptan, E. & Tutar, C. (2022). The Ideological Function of the System of Objects in the Everyday Life Activities of the Consumption Society: Representation of Reproduction and Control Processes on Television. Etkileşim Dergisi. Issue 10, October 2022.
Aksu, B. & Tutar, C. (2021). The Construction of Urban Spaces on the Axis of Neoliberal Social Dynamics: Karaköy Case. Etkileşim Dergisi. (8), 108-131. DOI: 10.32739/etkilesim.2021.4.8.140
Kara, K. & Güngör, N. (2021). Counter League: A Subcultural Formation of Struggle and Resistance. Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi. (38), 261-281. DOI: 10.17829/turcom.862381
Kınay, K. & Atalay, G. E. (2021). Troll Accounts and Perception Management on Social Media: Anti-Vaccination on Twitter during COVID-19. Medya ve Kültürel Çalışmalar Dergisi, 3 (2), 56-63. DOI: 10.29228/mekcad.11
Durukan, D. (2020). The Transformation of Gastronomy Spaces in the Process of Settling the Ideology of Everyday Life in the Urban Space: A Research on Üsküdar. Issue 6, October 2020, pp. 118-145, https://doi.org/10.32739/etkilesim.2020.6.78
Tutar, C. & Durukan, D. (2020). Television in the Construction and Transformation of Gastronomy Culture: The Case of Masterchef Turkey and The Taste Turkey Programs. İstanbul University Journal of Sociology. 40 (1): 339-364.
INTERNATIONAL ORAL PRESENTATION-ABSTRACT BOOK AND PROCEEDING BOOK
Cesur, S. Z. & Tutar, C. (2026). The Normalization of Ethical Risk in the Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies: A Theoretical Discourse Analysis of the Grok Case. 13th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism, May 13-15, Üsküdar University/Near East University, Lefkoşa/Istanbul.
Erdoğan, Y. (2026). Emerging Publicness in Digital Space: The Reconstruction of Local Cultures in the Realm of Hyperreality. 13th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism, May 13-15, Üsküdar University/Near East University, Lefkoşa/Istanbul.
Karaman, Y. P. (2026). Melodrama in Algorithmic Culture: The Digital Circulation of Women’s Representation in Heeramandi. 13th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on
Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism, May 13-15, Üsküdar University/Near East University, Lefkoşa/Istanbul.
Kavak, C. (2026). Transformation in Cultural Studies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Culture and Platform Power. 13th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism, May 13-15, Üsküdar University/Near East University, Lefkoşa/Istanbul.
Tahir, B. S. & Topaçoğlu, H. (2026). A Critical Discourse Analysis of Turkish Print Media’s Coverage of the October Seventh Event of Gaza. 13th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism, May 13-15, Üsküdar University/Near East University, Lefkoşa/Istanbul.
Yıldız, D. (2026). A Theoretical Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence and the Big Other within Digital Capitalism. 13th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism, May 13-15, Üsküdar University/Near East University, Lefkoşa/Istanbul.
Akmaz, İ. (2025). Liminal Spaces in the Digital Realm: Reflections on the Phenomenology of Virtual Transitional Spaces. 12th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism, May 14-16, Üsküdar University/Baku State University, Baku/İstanbul.
Cesur, S. Z. (2025). The Loss of Artistic Autonomy under New Media Technologies: The Position of Art in Consumer Society and the Possibilities of Negation. 12th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism, May 14-16, Üsküdar University/Baku State University, Baku/İstanbul.
Eski, R. (2025). Consumer Culture and New Media: Changing Consumption Practices in the Digital Age. 12th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism, May 14-16, Üsküdar University/Baku State University, Baku/İstanbul.
Özdağ, E. N. (2025). Slow Journalism on Digital Platforms in the Age of Speed: An Analysis of News Coverage of the February 6, 2023 Earthquakes within the Framework of Framing Theory. 12th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism, May 14-16, Üsküdar University/Baku State University, Baku/İstanbul.
Sanrı, H. (2025). Shifting Sovereignty Relations and Totalitarian Experiments in the Digital World: A Rereading of Emmanuel Levinas through the Lens of the Ethics of Responsibility.
12th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism, May 14-16, Üsküdar University/Baku State University, Baku/İstanbul.
Tahir, B.S. (2025). Freedom and Human Rights in the Context of Enlightenment Thought: A Descriptive Analysis on Gender Inequality and Freedom of Expression in Turkey. 12th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism, May 14-16, Üsküdar University/Baku State University, Baku/İstanbul.
Tülün, H. (2025). Algorithmic Visibility Policies of Platforms in Digital Capitalism: An Empirical Study of Social Media Influencers. 12th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism, May 14-16, Üsküdar University/Baku State University, Baku/İstanbul.
Tülün, H. (2025). The Role of Algorithms in Perpetuating Cultural Stereotypes: A Critical Analysis of Generative AI Systems. Decolonizing Social Sciences and Humanities: Islamic and Nor-Western Perspectives. April 29-30, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia, Indonesia.
Tülün, H. (2025). Co-Conversing with Artificial Intelligence: Recommender Systems and Silent Participants in Interpersonal Communication. Marmara University 1st National Symposium on Interpersonal Communication. May 29-30, Marmara University, Istanbul.
Tülün, H. (2025). Aestheticized Povert: Passive Consumption of Space and Visual FOMO Culture in the Transformation of Dolapdere into an Art Venue. Urban Studies Congress Urban Development Processes, Challenges and Solutions. 22-23-24 October, Skopje/Üsküp.
Yurddaş, Ö. A. (2025). Digital Ethnomusicology: A Conceptual and Methodological Perspective. 12th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism, May 14-16, Üsküdar University/Baku State University, Baku/İstanbul.
Akmaz, İ. (2024). Children on Social Media: A Critical Study on the Consumption Phenomenon on Kids Diana Show Channel. 11th International Communication Days (IFIG) Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism Symposium, May 15-17, Üsküdar University, Istanbul.
Eski, R. (2024). The Ideological Position of Advertising in the Late Capitalist Period: Rereading Advertising from Baudrillard's Perspective. 11th International Communication Days (IFIG) Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism Symposium, May 15-17, Üsküdar University, Istanbul.
Yurddaş, Ömer A. (2024). Digital Against Traditional: An Evaluation of Note Archive Sites as Digital Sources of Traditional Turkish Music. 11th International Communication Days (IFIG) Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism Symposium, May 15-17, Üsküdar University, Istanbul.
Muratlı, H. (2023). Synthetic Identities Created by Digital Culture: Analysis of the Movie “Triangle of Sadness”. 10th International Communication Days (IFIG) Digital Capitalism and Communication Symposium, May 16-18, Üsküdar University, Istanbul.
Tutar, C. (2023). The Ideological Position of Science and Technology in Digital Capitalism: An Epistemological Inquiry in the Context of the Colonization of the Lifeworld. 10th International Communication Days (IFIG) Digital Capitalism and Communication Symposium, May 16-18, Üsküdar University, Istanbul.
Bulut, R. & Ercan, E. E. (2020). The Digital Transformation of Reality: Analyzing the Movie The Irishman (2019). 7th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Communication Education in the Digital Age, October 21-23, Üsküdar University, Istanbul.
Duman, D. B. & Ercan, E. E. (2020). Neoliberalism, Consumption and Everyday Life: Discourse Analysis on the Movie Exemplary Family (2009). 7th International Communication Days (IFIG) Symposium on Communication Education in the Digital Age, October 21-23, Üsküdar University, Istanbul.
Tutar, C. (2019). The Rise of Care of The Self in Daily Live Activities in The Digitalizing World. 6th International Communication Days (IFIG) Digital Transformation Symposium, May 2-3, Üsküdar University, Istanbul.