In this thesis, focusing on the collective memory of the sixties and seventies, the principle theme is how the social experience of the period is remembered and interpreted today. This period represents a distinctive moment ...

Drawing on film-phenomenology which underscores the importance of bodily experience in cinema, this thesis departs from the question whether the New Cinema of Turkey offers a multisensory and materialist experience. It ...

In this study which focuses on the cinema-going experiences in 1960s and 1970s of Turkey and the way how these experiences are remembered today, it is emphasized that cinema-going is a social and cultural practice. New ...

In recent years, with the rise of social media and video sharing site YouTube, “YouTube celebrities”, with millions of subscribers, have emerged by producing digital games, make-up and fashion videos and vlogs. These people ...

New social movements have an interdependent relationship with the media. In this study, the position of mainstream and alternative media as a means of reflecting social movements and news tools are analyzed at the level ...

This study aims to examine the relationship between identity and performance by an ethnographic perspective, around folk dances. The social and culturally constructed concept of identity is not fixed, but a periodically ...

The protagonist of this work is the flâneuse. Since it was originally interpreted by the inverse of the concept of the flâneur in terms of gender, in order to reach her, the figure of flâneur that corresponds to the ...

This study focuses on the question of how Anatolian pop/rock music was situated in social memory in 1960’s and 1970’s. By placing social memory, popular memory, and cultural/communicative memory at the core of the theoretical ...

In this study, it is dealt with Cinema of Turkey films directed by women after 2010. The films of female directors selected as samples were analyzed with the perspective of women’s cinema. By examining the factors that ...

Taking a particular interest in the commoditization of online users’ prosumption on Letgo consumer-consumer (C2C) marketplace application, this work inquires mechanisms that enable the commoditization of prosumptive ...