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Local humanitarian workers in Turkey under the EU-Turkey Statement. A narrative study on politics and anti-politics in humanitarian work
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2020)
This qualitative research analyzes the perspectives of local humanitarian workers in Turkey on their own humanitarian work, in relation to politics in general, and the EU-Turkey Statement of 2016 in particular. Relying on ...
Layers of reality: Representation in animated documentaries
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2021)
In this thesis, I examine how reality is represented through animation in animated documentaries. Representing reality is the main subject of discussions related to documentary cinema. During the postmodern era, the ...
User perception of personalized advertisements and surveillance on Facebook and Instagram: A comparative analysis between digital natives and digital immigrants
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2020)
The appearance of Web 2.0 has altered the nature of one-way traditional media which users were only the receivers and it allowed them to contribute to online platforms. Web 2.0 brought out new Internet technologies called ...
Resistance is an inside job: Liquid surveillance within the context of dispositif, subject and lines of flight
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2020)
Despite the growing human rights and privacy concerns, liquid surveillance machine is now capable of moving with lightning speed in all areas of our lives. Governments and huge transnational companies exploit the data that ...
'Pro-filmic thought' in time-image: 'Lectosigns' and 'sub-reality' in 'Mirror' (1975)
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2021)
When discussing cinema as a 'pre-linguistic' system of images and signs, audiovisual thinking gains another dimension as a 'pre-verbal' act of creation that lays the groundwork for a new kind of thinking. It attributes ...
Imagining prejudice prediction models for social media research by examining the case of Venezuelan gold farmers through a neo-tribal perspective on Reddit
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2021)
Reddit is an online social media website with an emphasis on link sharing where users organize themselves according to their interests into online communities. The upvote/downvote mechanism of Reddit allows its users to ...
The return of the repressed through social disruption in horror films: Analyses of Don't Breathe (2016) and It Follows (2014)
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2022-06)
The independent American horror cinema has shown some major advancement in terms of artistic approaches to the genre and critical acclaim during the last ten years. In this new era of the horror genre in which horror films ...
Social movements in the 21st century: Portrait of an aftermath from subjective perspectives
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2019)
Gezi olaylarının ve hareketin sonrasının nasıl şekillendiği aşağıdaki araştırmanın odak noktasını oluşturacaktır. Bu araştırma tezinde Gezi sonrasında meydana gelen değişiklikler, etkiler ve kişisel yaklaşımlarla ilgili ...
Agnès Varda and Essay film
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2021)
In this thesis study, I explore the essay film as a form, specifically in the cinema of Agnès Varda. By demonstrating how Varda practices essayistic filmmaking, I discuss some definitions and characteristics of the essay ...
Transgressive mockumentary as a critique of conventional filmmaking practices
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2022-06)
Mockumentary film is the parodic conjoint of fiction narrative with documentary-style narration, popularized since the 1980s with the release of the iconic This is Spinal Tap. While many mockumentaries take advantage of ...