Nuket Elpeze Ergec (PhD), a professor in the field of Communication Studies, works in the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema at the Faculty of Communication at Cukurova University (ÇÜ). Her main area of ​​interest is the discourse in the content of mass media and the power, violence and power relations created by the discourse. Othering, feminist thought and the states of being of the female subject in society and media content are the areas she problematizes at the core of her work. She began her academic journey as a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Communication at Selcuk University in 1993 and continued her studies by taking various academic and administrative positions at Anadolu and Gaziantep Universities. She completed her doctoral study titled "Viewer's Skeptical Tendency and Persuasion Knowledge Towards Television Advertisements: Interpretation of Persuasion Knowledge" in Anadolu University, Social Sciences Institute, Department of Communication Arts in 2003. She gave lectures and seminars in her field as a visiting professor at Cag-Turkey University and Södertörn University in Sweden, presented papers and took part as a panelist in numerous national and international congresses and symposiums. She was and continues to be a jury member in various national and international competitions and referee for scientific articles and projects.



She served as Çukurova University Rectorate Communication Advisor, Dean of the Faculty of Communication, and worked in Rectorate commissions such as ÇEGEK and Addiction. She served as department head, vice dean, and commission member at Çukurova University Faculty of Communication. She founded the ÇU Faculty of Communication, Radio-Television and Cinema Department in 2012 and continued her duty as the founding department head until 2018, and as the Dean of the ÇU Faculty of Communication, which she assumed in August 2019, until December 2022. She has been a member of the ÇU Faculty of Communication Board of Directors since 2010, has a natural membership in the Faculty Board of the ÇU Faculty of Communication, and continues to serve as the Radio and Television Department.



Her special interests include communication techniques, political communication, cinema, and women's studies, and she still conducts scientific research and studies in the field of mass communication and new communication technologies. Prof Ergec has books with scientific content titled "Discourse approaches and media texts: Media and Discourse", "Doubt on Television Advertisements", "Violence against Women and Media". She continues her studies, which focus on the discourses created by the media, in the Feminist Studio Workshop she established in the Faculty studio building. She conducts focus group studies on various topics, produces YouTube content, and continues oral history and "Feminist Collaborations Development" projects.



Prof. Ergec is currently continuing her workshops at the Feminist Studio. She has 25 articles published in national and international refereed journals, 3 national book studies, 6 book chapters, 35 national/international notifications, and 13 projects.    

Gazi Üniversitesi Radyo Televizyon ve Sinema Bölümü'nden mezun oldu. Aynı üniversitenin Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Radyo Televizyon ve Sinema Anabilim Dalı'ndan yüksek lisans ve Gazetecilik Anabilim Dalı'ndan doktora derecesini aldı. Televizyon sosyolojisi, medya ve çocuk, medya ve kadın, popüler kültür ve medya, medya endüstrisi temel çalışma alanlarıdır.  

Born in 1979 in Istanbul, Turkey, I completed my early education before earning a BA in Radio, Television, and Cinema from Istanbul University in 2002. Later, I pursued two MA degrees: one in Philosophy and Religious Studies in 2014, and the other in Radio, Television and Cinema in 2016. In 2022, I successfully defended my PhD at Selçuk University's Institute of Social Sciences, where my thesis focused on the interplay between form and reality in Andrey Tarkovsky's films. I now serve as an assistant professor at Giresun University's Tirebolu Faculty of Communication, engaging in scholarly research that explores the intricate relationship between cinema and philosophy.