Cover Image
e-ISSN: 2667-4246

Journal Boards

Journal Owner

MG
Digital Marketing, Communication and Media Studies, Marketing, Service Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, Tourism

Chief in Editor

Erkan Arslan
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erkan Arslan
SİVAS CUMHURİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ
International Migration, Local Administrations , Public Administration, Public Policy

Field Editor

Ömer Aydınlıoğlu
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ömer Aydınlıoğlu
SİVAS CUMHURİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ YENİ MEDYA VE İLETİŞİM BÖLÜMÜ
Advertising Studies, Advertising, Advertising Analysis, Public Relations, Product and Brand Management, Corporate Social Responsibility
Özgür İpek
Assoc. Prof. Özgür İpek
Tekirdağ Namık Kemal Üniversitesi
Movie Review
KB
Asst. Prof. Dr. Kadir Bendaş
CUMHURİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ
Media Literacy, Communication Theories, Mass Media, Advertising Analysis, Internet, Journalism, Journalism Studies, Media Industry Studies, Communication Studies, New Media, Culture, Representation and Identity, Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
MB
Asst. Prof. Dr. Meltem Yılmaz Bilecen
CUMHURİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ
Culture, Representation and Identity, Urban Sociology and Community Studies, Welfare Studies, Disabled Groups, Gender and Politics, Advertising Analysis, Cultural and Creative Industries, Consumption and Everyday Life, Communication and Media Studies
Seyda Fatih Harmandaroğlu
Asst. Prof. Dr. Seyda Fatih Harmandaroğlu
BİLECİK ŞEYH EDEBALİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Marketing, Tourism Marketing, Sustainable Tourism, Consumer Behaviour, Social Marketing, Digital Marketing

Asst. Prof. Dr. Seyda Fatih Harmandaroğlu is a faculty member at Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University, Osmaneli Vocational School, Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Catering Services, Tourism and Hotel Management Program. His academic work focuses on digital marketing, artificial intelligence, consumer behavior, tourism marketing, social marketing, and sustainability. He has published articles and book chapters in national and international peer-reviewed journals within these fields, and has presented papers at national and international scientific conferences. He also serves as a reviewer and takes part in editorial evaluation processes for various academic journals.

Ömer Faruk Özgür
Political Communication, Communication and Media Studies, Public Relations, Crisis Communication, Social Media Studies, New Media

Dr. Ömer Faruk Özgür is a doctoral faculty member at Düzce University Vocational School of Social Sciences. He started his education in the field of public relations with Trakya University Edirne Vocational School Public Relations Program. Then, he continued his undergraduate education at Gazi University Public Relations and Publicity Department with the Vertical Transfer Exam. After her undergraduate education, she completed her master's degree at Kocaeli University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Public Relations and Publicity with the title of “Political Communication and Social Media Usage: A Research on the Students of Düzce University Vocational School of Social Sciences”. He completed his doctorate education at Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences with his thesis titled “The Role of Metaphor and Metonymy in Political Argumentation: The Case of June 7 and November 1 Elections” and was entitled to receive the title of doctor in the field of public relations. 
She continues her academic studies by focusing on topics such as crisis management, digitalization, public relations and political communication. He continues his academic life at Düzce University Vocational School of Social Sciences by giving courses related to his field of specialization such as Public Relations, Verbal Communication and Oratory, General and Technical Communication. 

İstatistik Editörü

EA
Asst. Prof. Dr. Ebuzer Arslan
Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi
Econometric and Statistical Methods, Quantitative Decision Methods , Applied Statistics

Foreign Language Editors

İD
Asst. Prof. Dr. İsmail Demirbağ
SİVAS CUMHURİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ
German Language, Literature and Culture, Lexicography and Semantics

.

Instructor Enes Özbay
SİVAS CUMHURİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ, YABANCI DİLLER YÜKSEKOKULU
Sociological Studies of Crime, Labour, Migration and Development, Social Antropology, British and Irish Language, Literature and Culture, Translation Studies, English As A Second Language, Translation and Interpretation Studies, Migration History, Evolutionary Psychological Studies, Migration Sociology

Layout Editors

Özcan Batcı
Res. Assist. Özcan Batcı
CUMHURİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ
Transmedia, Radio-Television, Television Programming, Television Broadcasting, Cinema-Tv Production and Management, Communication Studies

I have been working at the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema,  the Faculty of Communication at Sivas Cumhuriyet University since 2014.

Final Reader

Fırat Yolcu
Asst. Prof. Dr. Fırat Yolcu
Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi
Communication Theories, Journalism Studies, Organisational, Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication
DY
Res. Assist. Didem Yavuz
Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi
Turkish Education

Secretariat

Leyla Özkaplan
Res. Assist. Leyla Özkaplan
Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi
Journalism
Mert Susur
Res. Assist. Mert Susur
SİVAS CUMHURİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ
Public Relations

Yayın Kurulu

Mahmut Akpınar
Prof. Dr. Mahmut Akpınar
Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi
Ottoman Society, Late Modern History, Turkish Foreign Policy
MT
Prof. Dr. Murat Toksarı
SİVAS CUMHURİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Institutional Communication, Service Marketing, Public Relations, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Integrated Marketing Communication

Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesinde öğretim üyesidir 

ÜA
Prof. Dr. Ümit Arklan
SÜLEYMAN DEMİREL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ, HALKLA İLİŞKİLER VE TANITIM BÖLÜMÜ
Public Relations Campaigns and Applications, Communication and Media Studies, Public Relations, Public Relations Methods and Instruments
Zekiye Tamer
Prof. Dr. Zekiye Tamer
SİVAS CUMHURİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Social Media Studies, Institutional Communication
Dilara Nergishan Koçer
Assoc. Prof. Dilara Nergishan Koçer
SİVAS CUMHURİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ, GAZETECİLİK BÖLÜMÜ, GENEL GAZETECİLİK ANABİLİM DALI
Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality, Political Communication, Journalism Studies, Communication Sociology
Erkan Arslan
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erkan Arslan
SİVAS CUMHURİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ
International Migration, Local Administrations , Public Administration, Public Policy
ÖK
Management and Organization Education , Industrial and Organisational Psychology (Incl. Human Factors), Organisation and Management Theory, Gender, Policy and Administration, Management Psychology, Organizasyon, Management Sociology, Social Psychology, Behaviour-Personality Assessment in Psychology, Leadership
Sefer Darıcı
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sefer Darıcı
CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY
Communication Psychology, Communication Studies, Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
Sebnem Ozdemir
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sebnem Ozdemir
Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi
New Media, Marketing Communications, Public Relations

.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fikriye Çelik
SİVAS CUMHURİYET ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ, GAZETECİLİK BÖLÜMÜ
Media Studies, Social Media Studies, Communication and Media Studies, Journalism, New Media
Ömer Faruk Özgür
Political Communication, Communication and Media Studies, Public Relations, Crisis Communication, Social Media Studies, New Media

Dr. Ömer Faruk Özgür is a doctoral faculty member at Düzce University Vocational School of Social Sciences. He started his education in the field of public relations with Trakya University Edirne Vocational School Public Relations Program. Then, he continued his undergraduate education at Gazi University Public Relations and Publicity Department with the Vertical Transfer Exam. After her undergraduate education, she completed her master's degree at Kocaeli University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Public Relations and Publicity with the title of “Political Communication and Social Media Usage: A Research on the Students of Düzce University Vocational School of Social Sciences”. He completed his doctorate education at Marmara University Institute of Social Sciences with his thesis titled “The Role of Metaphor and Metonymy in Political Argumentation: The Case of June 7 and November 1 Elections” and was entitled to receive the title of doctor in the field of public relations. 
She continues her academic studies by focusing on topics such as crisis management, digitalization, public relations and political communication. He continues his academic life at Düzce University Vocational School of Social Sciences by giving courses related to his field of specialization such as Public Relations, Verbal Communication and Oratory, General and Technical Communication. 

Halil Emre Deniş
Public Administration, Social Media Studies, Political Sociology, Journalism Studies, Journalism, Turkish Political Life, Media Studies, Urban Policy, Political Science, Political Communication, Turkish Foreign Policy
Ülhak Çimen
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ülhak Çimen
Ataturk University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, Cinema and Television, Erzurum, Türkiye
Communication Studies
FY
Asst. Prof. Dr. Fatma Sena Yaman
KARABÜK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Communication Studies, Marketing Communications, Digital Marketing, Environmental Communication

Danışma ve Bilim Kurulu

Enderhan Karakoç
Prof. Dr. Enderhan Karakoç
Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi
New Media, Communication Sociology, Social Media Studies, Communication and Media Studies, Communication Studies
Fevzi Kasap
Prof. Dr. Fevzi Kasap
Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi
Photography, Communication Studies, Cinema-Tv Production and Management, Video Art, Art History, Creative Arts and Writing
HT
Prof. Dr. Hakan Temiztürk
ATATÜRK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Journalism, Communication and Media Studies
Prof. Dr. Naci İspir
ATATÜRK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Communication Theories, Communication Sociology
NE
Prof. Dr. Nüket Elpeze Ergeç
CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION, DEPARTMENT OF RADIO, CINEMA AND TELEVISION, DEPARTMENT OF RADIO AND TELEVISION
Radio-Television, Women's Studies, Mass Media, Cinema Sociology, Communication Studies, Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality

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.    

Şükrü Balcı
Prof. Dr. Şükrü Balcı
SELÇUK ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ
Communication Studies, Political Communication, Communication and Media Studies
Uğur Yavuz
Prof. Dr. Uğur Yavuz
Atatürk Üniversitesi
Information Systems Organisation and Management, Artificial Intelligence (Other), Management Information Systems
Prof. Dr. Veysel Çakmak
AKSARAY ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ
Public Relations, Mass Media
ED
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ersin Diker
GÜMÜŞHANE ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Digital Advertising, Communication Studies, Social Media Studies, Public Relations Campaigns and Applications
GP
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gizem Parlayandemir
İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ
Cinema Studies (Other), Transmedia, Cinema Studies, Cinema Sociology
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Berceste Gülçin Özdemir
İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ, RADYO, SİNEMA VE TELEVİZYON BÖLÜMÜ
Cinema Studies, Cinema Theories, Filmmaking and Directing, Cinema and Aesthetics, Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality, Movie Review

Berceste Gülçin Özdemir, İstanbul Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Radyo Televizyon Sinema Bölümü’nü 2006’da bitirdi. İstanbul Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü’nde çift anadal yaparak 2007’de de bu fakülteden mezun oldu.

Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Sinema-Televizyon Ana Sanat Dalı Bölümü’nde ‘’Feminist Film Criticism Contribution to Feminist Film-Making’’ adlı tezi ile 2009 yılında master derecesini aldı.

2014’de, Universita Degli Studi di Perugia’da Erasmus Doktora Programı çerçevesinde tezinin bir kısmını yazan Özdemir, 2016 yılında ‘’Türk Sineması’nda Kadın Yönetmenlerin Ana Akım Dışı Filmlerinde Kadının Mekanda Temsili: Özne(s)neleştirilmiş Kadınların Feminist Film Kuramı Çerçevesinde Çözümlenmesi (2000-2012)’’ başlıklı doktora teziyle doktor ünvanını almıştır.

Doktora tezinde ‘’Özne(s)neleştirilmiş’’ kavramını ortaya atarak akademik literatüre yeni bir kavram kazandırmaya çalışmıştır. Özdemir’in kitapları; Türk Sineması’nın Kadın Yönetmenleri Konuşuyor: Standartlaştırılmış Açık-Uçlu Görüşme Yöntemiyle Kadın Yönetmenlerle Görüşmeler, Türkiye’de Bağımsız Sinemaya Dair Tartışmalar: Sahadan Düşünceler, Türk Sineması’nda Kadın Yönetmenler ve Özne(s)neleştirilmiş Kadının Mekanda Temsili, An Examination of Characters and Spaces in Film Narratives in the Context of Panopticon and Chronotope within the Framework of Narratology Theory, Film ve Müzik: Türk Sineması’nda Türk Müziği Ögelerinin Kullanımının Türk Kültürüne Etkileri’dir.

Özdemir’in sinema alanında birçok makalesi ve kitap bölümü de bulunmaktadır. Çalışmalarının temelini felsefi yaklaşımlar, teoloji ve kuantum teorisinden alan Özdemir, eserlerinin odak noktasına sinemayı yerleştirmektedir.

TÜBİTAK 3005 Destek Programı kapsamında kabul edilen ‘’Sinema Alanında Seyir Deneyimlerine İlişkin Medya Değişimi ve Geleceğe İlişkin Tahminler, Stratejiler ve Çözümlemeler’’ başlıklı projesi ile İstanbul Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi’ne ‘’Sanal Gerçeklik Laboratuvarı (VR LAB)’’ açan Özdemir, bu laboratuvarla hem bilimsel projeler üretme hedefinde hem de eğitime fütürist yaklaşımın önceliğini hedeflemektedir. Disiplinlerarası çalışmanın temeli olan proje, kısa metraj film üretimi, nitelikli bilimsel dergilerde yayınlar, yeni ders tasarım önerisi ve film sergisi enstalasyonu gibi çıktılarıyla toplumsal faydanın ve yayın etkinin önemini ortaya koyma amacındadır.

İstanbul Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Sinema Anabilim Dalı’nda Doç. Dr. Öğretim Üyesi olarak ders vermektedir.

Akademik araştırma alanları; Psikanalitik film kuramı, film eleştirisi, film felsefesi, bağımsız sinema, sinema ve sanal gerçeklik teknolojisi.

Tüba Karahisar
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tüba Karahisar
UŞAK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies, Communication and Media Studies
ZA
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Gültekin Akçay
sivas cumhuriyet üniversitesi
Media Industry Studies, Television Sociology, Communication Studies, Communication and Media Studies, Television Programming, Television Broadcasting, Radio-Television

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.  

Deniz Kurtyılmaz
Communication Sociology, Cinema and Aesthetics, Cinema Theories, Movie Review, History of Ideas

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.
 

NO
Asst. Prof. Dr. Nino Omanadze
Geirgian Technical University
Agricultural Land Management
Topçugül Narmamatova
Asst. Prof. Dr. Topçugül Narmamatova
KYRGYZ - TURKISH MANAS UNIVERSITY
Communication and Media Studies
MB
Prof. Dr. Meltem Bostancı
İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ
Communication and Media Studies, Regional Studies, Globalisation, Journalism, Migration, Political Communication, International Politics
Aytekin Zeynalova
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aytekin Zeynalova
Bakü Devlet Universitesi
Communications and Media Policy, Mass Media, International Relations Theories, International Politics

Editor of Urban Academy

Last Update Time: July 17, 2026