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.

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.

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

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.

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