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.