This thesis is based on theories which argue that spaces are ideological value-laden social products and power apparatuses due to the interactive relation between space, society and modes of production. In this context, ...

News as an open or closed text has been a recurrent topic in communication studies. News as a factual text and written under professional requirements constitutes a closed structure. However, once the news is in circulation, ...

In Turkey, the family transforms simultaneously with all other institutions and interacts with social changes. In recent years, the family and conservatism have been the center of attention in politics, law, and the culture ...

It is expected that the media should be free and impartial for the democratic structure and communication of society. In ideal democratic systems, it is assumed that societal trust in the media will not occur without these ...

This study examines the relationship between belief in conspiracy theories, trust in state institutions, trust in science and populist attitudes. The aim of the study is to understand and reveal the relationship between ...

This thesis focuses on the higher education ecosystem in Turkey and analyzes the field of higher education and academic labor on the neoliberal political economy axis. As a result of neoliberal policies, universities have ...

This study examines a political line of mourning that strives to include the mourning of those deemed unmournable in the public sphere. It challenges attempts to silence and marginalise mourners during the AIDS crisis that ...

This study aims to examine the changing daily life practices of women in a sociocultural context as a result of datafication their knowledge about menstrual and sexual health. It examines how the cyber information exchange ...

This thesis focuses on how representations of disabled women in the post-2000s Turkish cinema are received by women with lived experiences of disability, what discourses they engage when interpreting these representations, ...

For many years, the lives and narratives of working women, often perceived as "quiet and uneventful," have been marginalized and deemed unremarkable. When these women's stories do receive attention, they are typically ...