IPCC 2023
Interdisciplinary PhD Communication Conference Organised by Istanbul Bilgi University, PhD in Communication
Communication, Technology and Experience*
26-27 May 2023 | Online
* This theme was inspired by Media, Technology and Experience, the event within the “Media at Sussex” seminar series, realised by the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex on 23 November 2022.
About the Conference
We invite paper abstracts and proposals for panels and roundtables that revolve around, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Methodologies
– Online research
– Auto/duo/digital ethnography
– Practice-based research
– Visual research methods (VRM)
– Research in progress
– Participatory action research
Digital Realms
– Digital literacies
– Digital technography
– Digital interpersonal relationships
– Everyday life, personal experiences
– Embodied digital practices
– Technological mediation
Pedagogies
– Teaching practices
– Learning experiences
– Experiential learning
– Critical pedagogy
– Collective pedagogy
– Engaged pedagogy
– Reflective pedagogy
Art and Design
– Image and representation
– Performance studies
– Language, adaptation, and translation
– Aurality (sound and music)
– Action and Impact
– Archiving, museums, spaces of memory
Fields and Borders of Research
– Research ethics
– Inclusivity, diversity, and intersectionality
– Spatiality and temporality
– Urban communication
– Geographies of physical space
– Media geography/geographies of media
– Sociology of affect and emotion, immaterial labour
– Fluidity, hybridity, engagement, vulnerability
– Memory, tracing the past
IPCC 2023: In search of crossroads
Bringing together a variety of concepts, fields, methods, and ideas around broader topics, BİLGİ IPCC – Interdisciplinary PhD Communication Conference opts for further inclusivity in its fifth edition and points towards the intersections that bind seemingly disparate threads. Rather than fixed titles and definitions, the focus here is on a comprehensive interpretation of communication, technology, and experience, including their separate journeys and how they interact with each other. As a song made popular by collectively chanting football fans reminds us, if we walk with hope in our hearts, we would never walk alone. And as we walk towards the crossroads between communication, technology, and experience, our hope is to meet others who are ready to connect their journeys with ours.
Born out of the collective efforts of students, candidates, alumni, and teachers within the PhD in Communication programme at Istanbul Bilgi University, the IPCC prioritises bringing together scholars from various disciplines and at different stages in their careers. We, therefore, invite all PhD students or candidates as well as early-career researchers with PhDs earned in the last 5 years, who are interested in joining us at the crossroads of various fields of interest, in order to simultaneously learn from and teach fellow scholars.
IPCC: A history
‘Engaged pedagogy’, the term coined by bell hooks (1994), defines a journey. Much like most scholarly endeavours, this is a journey that begins in the classroom. Then again, unlike most scholarly endeavours, this is a journey that also spans beyond educational spaces. It encourages those who were once students to adopt reflective and critical perspectives that challenge conventional learning practices, transgressing the dichotomy of learner and teacher. As learners are empowered to move beyond the spatial confines of classrooms, a sense of mutual learning is born out of this fluid and interactive process.
Now let us imagine different starting points for this journey. Ready to take this journey are scholars from various fields within social sciences. They may not start moving at the same time, the roads they are on may not be equally long, and the interests behind pursuing this trail may not be similar. Still, they find themselves arriving at an intersection. This is a point where their respective journeys meet one another, a point that gives them the opportunity to continue moving together, a point where they can renegotiate their roles as learners and/or teachers through a framework of engaged pedagogy. This is a point of intersection where multiple scholarly endeavours cross one another without colliding, and it is right at this crossroads that the IPCC aims to position itself.
Conference Programme
26 MAY
FRIDAY (GMT +3)
Nazan Haydari Pakkan
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Istanbul Bilgi University, PhD in Communication, Program Coordinator
Memory and Identity
Moderator
Can Koçak
Admilson Veloso da Silva
Visual ephemeral narratives: Youth self-presentation through transient content on Instagram Stories
Corvinus University of Budapest
Berna Çelikkaya
Ephemerality Marked Upon The ‘Buddha Board’: A Response to Freud’s “A Note Upon The ‘Mystic Writing-Pad’”
Istanbul Bilgi University
Silas Udenze
Exploring the EndSARS Movement: Police Brutality in Nigeria through the lens Memory
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Discussion
Dialogues and Interactions
Moderator
Cansu Koç
Karl Turgut Maloney Yorganci
Using Autoethnography to Expand the Boundaries of Podcast Studies and Investigate Relationships between Hosts and Users
University of Salford
Aizhamal Muratalieva
Beste Naz Özkan
Diversity Strategies and Intercultural Communication in Multinational Companies: The Case of Turkish Ethnic Minorities in Hungary
Corvinus University of Budapest
Begüm Irmak
Onur Sesigür
Impala’s "Rapliture": Learning Turkish Literature from a Hip-Hop Record
Istanbul Bilgi University
Beykoz University
27 MAY
SATURDAY (GMT +3)
Begüm Irmak
Welcome
Istanbul Bilgi University
Reconsidering Ethics
Moderator
Onur Sesigür
Feyza Dalaylı
The Use of Artificial Intelligence and Ethics in Academic Studies: The Case of ChatGPT
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Hanife Erişen
Pandemic By-product: Online Literacy Education for Parents and Children since Covid-19
Eastern Mediterranean University
Yusuf Yüksekdağ
Rabab Ahsan
Ethics of Smart Cities: Technical Stakeholder Perceptions from Pakistan
Istanbul Bilgi University
Visual Discourses and Perceptions
Moderator
Berna Çelikkaya
Michele Varini
The Butterfly Dream: New unexplored pathways within the fashion system
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan
Paulo Barroso
Media ethics, image and meaning: visual rhetoric on the cover of news magazines
Polytechnic Institute of Viseu
Roland-Mihai Impuscatu
Informational versus transformational message strategy in Apple commercials
University of Bucharest
Well-being and Authenticity in Media Texts
Moderator
Begüm Irmak
Zeynep Merve Uygun
Zeliha İnci Asal
Onur Turgut
AI Whispering: The Reproduction and Representation of Famous Paintings via, ChatGPT, Midjourney, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion
Özyeğin University
Naz Almaç
Well-Being and Digital Games: An Ongoing Longitudinal Study on Player Experience
Başkent University
Can Koçak
Crossing absurdist humour with grim reality checks: Is BoJack Horseman more horse than a man, or more man than a horse?
University of Sussex
Closing Remarks
Speakers
Nazan Haydari Pakkan
Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Nazan Haydari Pakkan
Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Nazan Haydari is Associate Professor of Media School at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. Her research and teaching areas consist of intercultural communication, feminist media studies, critical media pedagogy, and radio studies. She is particularly interested in the media practices of peace building and conflict resolution, collaborative research, critical media pedagogy, and the relationship between radio, gender and identity. She has participated in the development of various media projects with street-involved children, and disadvantaged youngsters in collaboration with İstanbul Bilgi University Children Studies Unit and Maltepe University Research and Implementation Center on Street Children (SOYAÇ). She serves at the editorial board of Journal of International & Intercultural Communication, advisory board of Center for Intercultural Dialogue and , and an active member of Women’s Radio in Europe Network (WREN). She has a PhD in Telecommunications and MA in Communications and Development from Ohio University. Currently she is working on an oral history with women radio broadcasters of 1970s in Turkey.
Can Koçak
University of Sussex, UK
Can Koçak
University of Sussex, UK
Can Koçak is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. Before his current post, he taught at King's College London, Department of Digital Humanities. He received his PhD in Communication from Istanbul Bilgi University with a thesis that focused on the representation of intellectual in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's films before receiving his master’s degree in Film and Drama at Kadir Has University with an interdisciplinary research derived from Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966).
Admilson Veloso da Silva
Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Admilson Veloso da Silva
Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Admilson Veloso da Silva is a Brazilian Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Science at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication - Journalism, an MBA in Digital Communications, and a MA in Social Communication - Mediatized Interactions. His main research areas are social media studies, visual mobile communication, and youth self-presentation in digital culture. ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9167-3902 Contact: milsonvelososilva@gmail.com
Berna Çelikkaya
Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Berna Çelikkaya
Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Berna Çelikkaya is a doctoral candidate in Communication at Istanbul Bilgi University. She completed her second M.A. at the Center for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto. Her first Master’s degree in Film and Drama is from Istanbul Kadir Has University. As a scholartist, her primary research interests include dramaturgy, writing, performance, and acting.
Silas Udenze
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Silas Udenze
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Silas Udenze is a PhD Grant Holder of Humanities and Communication at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, and a Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Anthropology (CDA), University College London, the United Kingdom. His research cuts across social media use, social media and young people, digital activism, digital storytelling, virtual ethnography, and qualitative methods.
Cansu Koç
After graduating from Istanbul University English Language Teaching in 2017, Cansu Koç received a master’s degree in Women's Studies at Istanbul University with her thesis which focused on the representation of older women in TV series. Currently, she is a doctoral student of PhD in Communication program at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her research interests include gender studies, aging studies, and media studies.
Karl Turgut Maloney Yorganci
University of Salford, UK
Karl Turgut Maloney Yorganci
University of Salford, UK
Karl Turgut Maloney Yorganci is a PhD candidate in the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology at the University of Salford. He received his BA in Media and
Communications at the University of Sussex before completing his MA in Communication and Media Studies at the Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus. In 2022, he co-authored a chapter for a book published by Cambridge University Press titled “Psychology of Democracy: Of the People, By the People, For the People” and his major research interests lie in
the areas of media effects, podcasting, parasocial relationships, international students and autoethnography.
Aizhamal Muratalieva
Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Aizhamal Muratalieva
Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Aizhamal Muratalieva is a Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Science at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, teaching at the Department of Media and Communication and specializing in ethnic minorities and migration discourse. She is a communication practitioner with a background in Journalism and seven years of experience across both internal and external communications in enterprise companies. She holds her MA in Integrated Communication from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, where she researched migration coverage in the Russian Media and the construction of xenophobic discourse. She is currently working on a thesis that examines the experiences of Central Asian migrants to Russia and the phenomena of ethnic pride. Contact: muratalieva.a@gmail.com
Beste Naz Özkan
Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Beste Naz Özkan
Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Beste Naz Özkan is a Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Science at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, teaching at ESSCA School of Management and the Corvinus University of Budapest. Her expertise areas are organizational communication, business excellence, employee motivation and intercultural communication. She teaches lectures in business negotiation, multimedia communication and canvassing. Her field of study in the practical area is organizational behaviour and how effective communication flow in companies can be maximised through business excellence models and their effects on employee motivation. She is currently working on the PhD dissertation named “Analysis of Major Business Excellence Models with the Perspective of Organizational Communication”.
Contact: beste.ozkan@hotmail.com
Begüm Irmak
Begüm Irmak received her MSc degree from London School of Economics in Sociology- Contemporary Social Thought in 2011 after graduating from Sabancı University’s Social and Political Sciences Programme in 2010. She received her PhD in Communication from Bilgi University. Until 2015, she worked in an advertising agency as the project leader of an international brand. Currently, she is working as an executive manager in education and a part time lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University and Bahçeşehir University. Her research interests include gender studies, media and technology studies and sociology of digital media.
Onur Sesigür
Onur Sesigür is Assistant Professor and vice-dean at The Faculty of Arts and Design at Beykoz University. He received his B.Sc. in physics from Middle East Technical University, his MA in audio production from the University of Westminster and his Ph.D. in communication fromIstanbul Bilgi University. Prior to his current occupation, he worked as a sound designer, music producer, post-production coordinator and as client relations manager in the media and music industries. His research interests include digital cultures, sound studies, popular music and culture industries.
Feyza Dalaylı
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey
Feyza Dalaylı
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey
Feyza Dalaylı is an Assistant Prof. at the Department of New Media and Communication at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. She completed her MA and PhD in Communication Sciences at Marmara University. She has published articles in her field and on various interdisciplinary topics. As a researcher, her main areas of work are new media, communication studies, cultural studies, artificial intelligence and future communication models.
Hanife Erişen
Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus
Hanife Erişen
Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus
Hanife Erisen is a Ph.D. candidate and instructor at the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus. She has a keen interest in the role of politics in the media, in terms of the dissemination of ideology, as well as the
establishment of power relations through language in the media, with a particular interest in news texts. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the deconstruction of the power relations prevalent within language. Her main areas of interest are self-other relations, discursive identity constructions, representations developed and disseminated by news ideology and discourses, and more recently, media literacy.
Yusuf Yüksekdağ
Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Yusuf Yüksekdağ
Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Yusuf Yüksekdağ is a Faculty Member at Istanbul Bilgi University. He works and teaches in the fields of applied ethics, political philosophy and media studies. He received his PhD from the Department of Culture and Society, Linköping University.
Rabab Ahsan
Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Rabab Ahsan
Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Rabab Ahsan is a MA student at Istanbul Bilgi University, working on the evolving relationship between ethics, design and communities. She has a background in Computer Science and User Interface Design.
Michele Varini
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy
Michele Varini
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy
Michele Varini is a PhD student in Sociology, Organizations, Cultures (XXXVII cycle) at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan. He currently carries out research on digital fashion issues, mainly focused on the hybridizations between the world of gaming and that of fashion production. Collaborator of the ModaCult study center, interested in the phenomena of digitization, digital fashion, and new forms of production and consumption.
Paulo Barroso
Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal
Paulo Barroso
Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal
Paulo M. Barroso, Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal (College of Education, Department of Communication and Art), teaching Semiotics, Sociology of Communication, Strategic Communication, Theories of Communication, and Ethics; integrated researcher at the Investigation Centre in Communication, Information and Digital Culture (CIC-Digital) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon; BA, MA and PhD in Communication Sciences.
Roland-Mihai Impuscatu
University of Bucharest, Romania
Roland-Mihai Impuscatu
University of Bucharest, Romania
Roland-Mihai Impuscatu is a Ph.D. researcher at the University of Bucharest, where he investigates emotional and functional persuasion strategies in communication, with a strong focus on the digital field. With over six years of experience in communication, digital, and
creative fields as a Creative and Marketing Manager, his research interests include digital human engagement, transformational and informational communication, artificial intelligence, and emotional digital persuasion. He is currently a Ph.D. collaborator at the University of
Bucharest`s Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, teaching PR, Digital Communication, Digital Video, and Advertising.
Zeynep Merve Uygun
Ozyegin University, Turkey
Zeynep Merve Uygun
Ozyegin University, Turkey
Zeynep Merve Uygun is an assistant professor in the department of Communication and Design at Özyeğin University. Uygun received her Ph.D in trans-disciplinary documentary film from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Her research interests include digital ethnography, new media documentaries (interactive documentary, digital storytelling, transmedia documentary etc), visual research methods, and politics of representation.
Zeliha İnci Asal
Bahceşehir University, Turkey
Zeliha İnci Asal
Bahceşehir University, Turkey
Zeliha Inci Asal received an undergraduate degree in Communication Design from Istanbul Kultur University, her master's degree in Film and Television from Bahceşehir University, and she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Research at Bahceşehir University. Asal was a lecturer at the Beykoz University Vocational School and has over ten years of experience in the media industry as an assistant director. She creates content for analogue photography, short films, and digital game narrations with a recent emphasis on digital media and philosophy.
Onur Turgut
Ozyegin University, Turkey
Onur Turgut
Ozyegin University, Turkey
Onur Turgut received his undergraduate degree from Kocaeli University Visual Communication Design Department in 2019 and his master's degree from Istanbul University Radio Cinema and Television department in 2022. Turgut, who is currently studying at the same department as a doctoral student, also works as a research assistant at Ozyegin University's Department of Communication and Design. His interest areas include; audience in cinema, cinema sociology and film criticism. Turgut, who has been producing independent film projects since 2015, took part in various documentary, video and advertisement projects.
Naz Almaç
Başkent University, Turkey
Naz Almaç
Başkent University, Turkey
Born in Ankara in 1992, Naz Almaç graduated from Ted Ankara College in 2010. Completed her undergraduate degree in İstanbul Bilgi University Communication Faculty, Photography, and Video Department in 2014. She worked as a photographer for independent magazines and participated in several short film projects. She got her M.A. degree in 2018 from Bahçeşehir University Cinema and Television department with the thesis titled 'Her Story: Use of Film Language in Full-motion Video Games'. Currently, she works as a research assistant at Başkent University Radio, Television, and Cinema Department in Ankara and studies on her PhD in the same department.
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How can you apply?
Individual submission of a paper proposal should include an extended abstract of 500-750 words and a short bio of 100 words.
Panels with 3-4 paper presentations should consist of the panel title with a 500-750 words rationale followed by 150 words abstract of each paper presentation and short bios of the participants. Discussants can also be identified with a short bio.
A roundtable session provides an opportunity for participants to get together and explore issues related to the theme of the conference in an informal yet structured setting. If you are interested in hosting a round table, you can submit a topic or possible questions along with a 400-500 words rationale and a 100 words short bio of the facilitator(s).
Submissions will be notified via email by Friday, 5 May 2023. We look forward to receiving your contributions.