Kadir Has University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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Transforming universities for a more competent society: Digitalization and higher education
(IGI Global, 2022)Digitalization has transformed the higher education sector. It is a significant factor that shapes the future of higher education. Universities are the primary institutions that must ensure the relevancy and actuality of ... -
Urban-Architecture as a Battleground of Socio-Cultural Struggle
(Brill, 2019)Architecture is closely yet paradoxically connected to the two basic and complementary human instincts; to construct and to destruct, in other words to live and to die. Therefore, architecture and urbanism can be considered ... -
“Is Something Funny, Asshole?": Joker’s Nihilist Violence
(De Gruyter, 2022)Joker is a film that explores the forms of nihilism and their intertwinement in contemporary society. Thus, it can be viewed as a piece of theorizing and social diagnosis.We start with looking at the Joker’s violence.Why ... -
The mystique of luxury products
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2018)The spending capacity of the middle-income class increases with growing economies. With this increase, luxury goods are not only consumed by rich people alone. For this reason, luxury brands are expanding their target ... -
Experience consumption in Turkey
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2018)The consumer behaviour literature is evolving towards the assumption that products are inherently experiential bundles, and after all, all businesses are operating within the experienced economy. Experiences are much more ... -
Cyberterrorism: The Borderless Danger
(Brill, 2020)Cyberspace has its share of attacks by Turkish hacker groups. Because of the extensive fear of immediate cyber terror, Turkish hacker movements are also feared and called terrorists by western media. Attacks by Turkish ... -
Cash Holdings and Corporate Governance: Evidence From Turkey
(IGI Global, 2022)This chapter investigates the empirical factors affecting corporate cash holdings with special emphasis on corporate governance variables for a sample of Turkish-listed nonfinancial firms over the period 2006 to 2010. The ... -
Online News Consumption Habits of University Students in Greece and Turkey
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2020)The challenges of digitalisation on news organisations, future of newspapers and other traditional media present an ongoing struggle. Although there is a general decline in news consumption in all cohorts, youth in specific ... -
Application of fluorescence technique for understanding film formation from polymer latexes and composites
(Elsevier, 2021)This chapter summarizes the application of fluorescence technique to understand all aspects of film formation using both pure polymer latexes and polymer nanocomposites. Transient fluorescence, steady state fluorescence, ... -
Mathematical modeling to the motion control of magnetic nano/microrobotic tools performing in bodily fluids, especially blood/plasma
(Elsevier, 2021)The use of microrobotic systems for therapeutic applications has been a hot topic for the last two decades with ever growing interest. One particular application envisioned is the use of untethered robotic devices of the ... -
Consumer-brand relationships in Turkey
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2018)Marketing academics and practitioners have acknowledged that consumers form specific relationships with brands that are able to create unique and memorable qualities. As a result, the concept of consumer-brand relationship ... -
Actively open- minded thinking and the political effects of its absence
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Modeling, simulation, and decision support
(Elsevier, 2021)Energy markets are intertwined and complex systems that influence and are affected by various sectors such as transportation, industry, and electric power. Solely focusing on the power sector without considering the up-and ... -
Rising Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Rural Turkey: Change and Negotiation of Women in a Gendered Agribusiness in Western Anatolia
(Springer Nature, 2021)This chapter explores the links between neoliberalism, globalised agri-food relations, and rising authoritarian practices based on the labouring practices and experiences of rural women from a feminist perspective in Turkey. ... -
Reconsidering Informed and Participatory Citizenship in the Current Media Ecosystem
(Oxford University Press, 2021)The focus of this chapter is on how changes in the media landscape have forced the reconsideration of the way in which ‘memory’, ‘knowledge’, and ‘informed citizenship’ are understood, defined, and researched. Thus, for ... -
Differences Across Generations and Stability of Values in the Turbulence of Social Change in Turkey
(Springer International Publishing, 2021)This chapter explores culture specific dynamics of intergenerational value transmission and its potential effects on youth self-sufficiency in the Turkish context. Due to rapid socioeconomic changes and massive internal ... -
Branding cities in the age of social media: A comparative assessment of local government performance
(Springer International Publishing, 2015)This chapter is a comparative study of how three local governments- Cape Town (South Africa), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA), and Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, USA)-use social media platforms in their city branding ... -
From TRT to Netflix: Implications of Convergence for Television Dramas in Turkey
(Springer International Publishing, 2020)Since the1980s, the television (TV) drama has proved to be one of the most dominant formats on Turkish TV channels and occupied major slots on primetime throughout the 1990s and 2000s. As Internet penetration grew, on-demand ...