My central argument is that the article titled 'The Semiotics of Landscape Design Communication,' authored by Raaphorst and colleagues in 2016, misinterprets the conceptual tools of thinkers such as Panofsky, Baudrillard, Derrida, and Foucault in its treatment of visual representations in landscape architecture, using these theories in a superficial and ornamental manner rather than deepening them.
Do Citation Rates Determine A Discipline’s Autonomy?
In this text, I am responding to the article by Hu et al. (2024), which examines the autonomy of the communication discipline through citation analysis; in this response, I argue that the independence of the discipline should be analyzed not only through numerical citation rates but also with a broader dataset and methodological depth that includes textual components such as abstracts and titles.
Free Labor and Platform Imaginaries
In response to Richter and Ye's (2023) article on Instagram influencers, I critique the study's exclusive focus on a small number of female users with high follower counts, and I argue that this restricted sample selection presents a highly limited analysis by overlooking smaller yet influential users on the platform, the quantitative dimension of follower engagement, and gendered labor practices.
The Image of the Russia-Ukraine War in TikTok
In this paper, I propose to read Marcus Bösch and Tom Divon’s 2024 article, "The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine," in conjunction with the concepts of algorithmic visibility and invisibility, which I utilized in my term paper, "The Image of Urban Poverty on TikTok," for the COMM720 course. Bösch … Continue reading The Image of the Russia-Ukraine War in TikTok
Social Biases in Synthetic Ethnography
I explore the problematic aspects of transforming Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and cultural capital into 'machine habitus,' and discuss how this classical methodology can be applied to current studies with scientific rigor.
An Essay About Value and Data
The argument I have established throughout this text is that data is not a "value" in itself, but a "valuable commodity" appropriated by capital during the production process. (I wish to emphasize its status as a commodity).
The Digitalization of Information and Bots in The Fight Against Disinformation
This essay examines a study on AI-driven misinformation correction through posthumanist and object-oriented ontology frameworks , arguing that while bots function as active actants in public discourse , their true communicative impact must be evaluated within multidimensional, interactive human-machine ecosystems rather than isolated experimental environments.
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