Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem

Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem

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Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
Ç.,Bozdağ Bucak
Ç. Bozdağ Bucak
Çiğdem, Bozdağ Bucak
Bozdag Bucak, Cigdem
C.,Bozdag Bucak
C. Bozdag Bucak
Cigdem, Bozdag Bucak
Bozdağ, Çiğdem

Job Title

Doç. Dr.

Email Address

Cıgdem.bozdag@khas.edu.tr

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18

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6

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0

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Citation Count: 6
Intercultural learning in schools through telecollaboration? A critical case study of eTwinning between Turkey and Germany
(Sage Publications Inc, 2018) Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
Digital media offer various possibilities for internet-based telecollaboration in schools and open up a space for intercultural learning. Diverse initiatives like such as the European Union-initiative eTwinning network aim to support telecollaboration projects in education. This article argues that we need to develop critical and grounded understanding of telecollaboration projects and how they are being embedded in the context of existing school cultures. The article presents an in-depth case study of a telecollaboration project between a Turkish and a German school. On the basis of observations in schools interviews with teachers and focus groups with pupils the article argues that there are two main challenges that limit the experience of intercultural learning in the analysed project. The first point is about the strong teacher-centred project design and the discrepancy between the perspectives of teachers and pupils. The second point is the rather simplistic and superficial understanding of culture which reasserts national cultures instead of promoting a more open perspective that influences the project tasks and topics.
Citation Count: 18
Editorial introduction. Representations of immigrants and refugees: News coverage public opinion and media literacy
(DE GRUYTER MOUTON, 2018) Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
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New media as a space for memory-making in the context of visual representations of socio-political events
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
This thesis aims to discuss how narratives of socio-political events are represented through new media and attempts to reveal the effects of this usage in construction of memory. Three cases, namely "Map of Women Patrons' Structures in Ottoman Istanbul", Networks of Dispossession and projects of Hafıza Merkezi, were analyzed and expert interviews were made with the project coordinators. As a result of the analysis and after theoretical explanations that were applied to account for it, the role of new media in memory-making was underlined for its capacity to preserve and represent information as well as generate knowledge and provide access to it. It can be concluded that this study is a particular case of a broader phenomenon; it is only limited to the cases, however, by revealing the research processes and evaluation of finished products of the cases, it is believed that the inferences may lead to further studies that could deepen the analysis.
The Impact of audience feedback on SNS user's self - representation in the new media age
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2016) Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
This thesis examines the relationship between audience feedback and selfrepresentation on Facebook using Erving Goffman's dramaturgical model, focusing on the conceptions of audience and context on Facebook of Facebook-using students at Kadir Has University. I am exploring participants' perspectives in four main areas: Audience Feedback on Facebook user's posts and photos; examining user's response to audience feedback; investigating user's self-representation on Facebook; and finally examining if people's online and offline personalities are different and if they are presenting themselves differently in different situations and with different people. I examine the impact of audience feedback on Facebook users' behavior, and understand how Facebook users is re-presenting themselves online. Theoretically, I consider Goffman's model, by applying it to the findings and results of this study.
Citation Count: 22
Bottom-up nationalism and discrimination on social media: An analysis of the citizenship debate about refugees in Turkey
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2020) Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
This study analyzes social media representations of refugees in Turkey and discusses their role in shaping public opinion. The influx of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey has created heated debates about their presence and future in the country. One of these debates was triggered by President Erdogan's statement that Turkey would issue citizenship rights to Syrians in July 2016. Due to a lack of critical voices about refugee issues in Turkey's mass media sphere, social media has become a key platform for citizens to voice their opinions. Through a discourse analysis of tweets about the issue of refugees' citizenship, I will map different perceptions of refugees in Turkey. I argue that despite contesting discourses about Syrians, the debate on social media reinforces nationalism and an ethnocentric understanding of citizenship in Turkey. As the number of refugees and migrants increases rapidly worldwide, they become the new 'others' of national imagined communities. Social media becomes a key communication space where the nation is discursively constructed in a bottom-up manner through manifestations of 'us' and 'them'. The analysis shows that social media contributes to trivialization and normalization of discrimination and hatred against Syrian refugees through disseminating overt discourses of 'Othering'. Social media also enables more covert forms of discrimination through 'rationalized' arguments that are used to justify discrimination through the basis of false/non-verified information. Thus, Twitter becomes a space for critical, bottom-up, yet nationalistic and discriminatory statements about refugees.
Incorporating the non-expert publıic to heritage practices from below
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
in our 21st century cultural heritage field grows to be much more dynamic participatory open to change and dialogue. The scope of cultural heritage too broadens. People who are supposed to inherit heritage are acknowledged as not just mere inheritors anymore but also as the creators of heritage itself. Quite supportive of this development new media lead the way of hearing user-generated contents in cultural heritage practices that used to be strictly confined to the expert-based opinions. in light of these progresses this thesis endeavors to make visible the efforts of incorporating the non-expert public to heritage practices from below in Turkey. Although there are institutional efforts of integrating the public to the cultural heritage practices through new media and there are studies on such efforts the heritage practices from below are quite neglected by the scholarly literature here in Turkey. Following up this fact this thesis elaborates on the four cases which embrace a bottom-up heritage discourse in Turkey. Adopting an ethnographic approach the thesis analyzes the four chosen cases (Ýstanbul Kent Savunmasi Memory Map UrbanObscura Adalara Ses Ol) through in depth interviews and concludes with an argument that to achieve a bottom-up application of such participatory discourse is difficult while the expert’s dominance design and guidance is still impenetrable. Altogether the cases examined here indeed variegate heritage stories.
Citation Count: 10
News-Sharing Repertoires on Social Media in the Context of Networked Authoritarianism: The Case of Turkey
(USC ANNENBERG PRESS, 2020) Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
Social media has become a primary gateway for users to access news, especially in authoritarian states with strictly controlled media environments. In such contexts, it is crucial to understand the motivations that prompt users to share news on social media. Our qualitative multimethod study presents three patterns of news-sharing repertoires on social media: (1) refraining from sharing and/or self-censorship, (2) sharing overtly political news, and (3) sharing news with political implications in carefully crafted safe zones. In Turkey, these patterns are strongly influenced by the polarized and increasingly authoritarian setting. Our findings first contribute to the literature on news sharing and news repertoires through an in-depth study of news-sharing repertories that emphasize the role of social and political contexts. Second, we contribute to the literature on social media and authoritarianism by shedding light on a rather understudied group of users who do not completely self-censor and are not political activists but still share news with political implications online in a cautious and strategic way.
Popular culture representation on youtube: An analysis on Youtube rewinds
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2017) Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
My thesis specifically focuses on "Popular Culture Representation on YouTube and the Evolution of the Representation" and to point out Youtube's position when it comes to popular culture, my methodology includes applying a content analysis on all 7 YouTube Rewind videos which are 2010 YouTube Rewind: Year in review", YouTube Rewind: Year in Review 2011", "Rewind YouTube Style 2012", "Youtube Rewind: What does 2013 Say?", "Youtube Rewind: Turn Down for 2014", "YouTube Rewind: Now Watch Me 2015" and "Rewind 2016: The Ultimate 2016 Challenge.", respectively.
Challenging the influence of interactivity on narrative structures in digital games. An analysis of adventure genres
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
This study analyzes the narrative structure of the computer games after the emergence of the computer technology which provides an opportunity for the game designers to create more extensive narrative structures. The aim is to introduce a framework which contains J. Campbell’s “monomyth” theory and C. Vogler’s modernization of the same theory specify the indicatives thereafter create an understanding of game narrative in an approach that is correspondent with the classical narrative structure. This thesis tries to indicate whether the entrance of a new perception of technology which brings the interactivity notion to human life changes the practices and the fundamentals of the classical narrative structure. The purpose of this thesis is to understand how the adventure game scenarios are constituted to see if the structure of the games have overtones of the classical narrative and to determine the influence of the interactivity by picking two games of adventure genre and analyzing their quest lines.
The adoption and influences of big data in tourism industry in Turkey
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
The adoption Today’s common belief on big data says all sorts of industries will become much more efficient through the data-driven evidence. The tourism industry is one of those industries which thrive on information. Together with the adoption of big data in tourism industry there is a number of opportunities arising which might help organizations in providing predictive modelling analysis and key insights. These insights can provide businesses with more integrated view of the whole industry and accordingly much more enhanced relationship with customers through a focused and responsive approach to customers’ needs and preferences. This study concludes that predictive analytics can help businesses in anticipating what is likely to happen in the future and comprehend the fundamental causes of different results and thus correlate different insights for future forecasting. However the way of gaining more opportunities is not only related with putting the technologies related with big data into use but also related with the expertise of the personnel/data team. and influences of big data in tourism industry in Turkey