This article was originally written for the COMM720 Theories of New Media course by Erkan Saka at Istanbul Bilgi University. In this paper, I will examine Tang et al.’s 2025 article, "Parental Perceptions of Dynamic Exchanges of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Misinformation and Corrections From AI Checkers on Reddit," through the premise that non-human entities (in … Continue reading The Digitalization of Information and Bots in The Fight Against Disinformation
The Impact of Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories on Consumer Behavior
This article was originally written for the COMM720 Theories of New Media course by Erkan Saka at Istanbul Bilgi University. This text examines Anthony Dannar’s 2024 article, ‘Every adventure begins with a cup of coffee’: Black Rifle Coffee Company, reactionary fandom, and the tactical body’. I will analyze how white supremacist discourse and conspiracy theories … Continue reading The Impact of Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories on Consumer Behavior
Changing Meanings of Intimacy and Publicness in the Digital Age
This article was originally written for the COMM720 Theories of New Media course by Erkan Saka at Istanbul Bilgi University. In this study, I intend to explore the proposition of ‘public intimacy’—disrupting the relationship based on a rigid dichotomy between intimacy and the public sphere found in Kornelia Hahn’s 2024 article Intimacy and the Transformation … Continue reading Changing Meanings of Intimacy and Publicness in the Digital Age
Feminist Art in Turkey Situated Somewhere Between Occidentalism and Care
This paper was originally written for the COMM701 Inquiry Into Knowledge course taught by Nazan Haydari Pekkan in Istanbul Bilgi University. In this text, I will discuss the epistemological, ontological, and methodological similarities and differences between Meltem Ahıska’s work Radyonun Sihirli Kapısı: Garbiyatçılık ve Politik Öznellik and my doctoral thesis, which aims to analyze inter-object … Continue reading Feminist Art in Turkey Situated Somewhere Between Occidentalism and Care
Interpreting The Sharing of Data on the Women Body from a Feminist Perspective
This article was originally written for the MED521 Digital Anthropology course by Erkan Saka at Istanbul Bilgi University. This paper focuses on Annika Richterich’s 2018 article, Data solidarity in feminist technology activism and innovation. I will discuss the role of health applications that share data with third parties in transforming the female body into an … Continue reading Interpreting The Sharing of Data on the Women Body from a Feminist Perspective
Thinking Multi-Sited Ethnography in Conjuction With Posthumanist Research
This article was originally written for the MED521 Digital Anthropology course by Erkan Saka at Istanbul Bilgi University. This article focuses on George Marcus’s 1995 article, Ethnography in/of a World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography. Broadly speaking, the article explores the potential use of multi-sited ethnography in studies that adopt object-oriented ontology as a … Continue reading Thinking Multi-Sited Ethnography in Conjuction With Posthumanist Research