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.