Neval Turhallı is a research assistant at Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Media. She graduated from the departments of Psychology and Film & TV. Later, she continued her MA degree in New Media Program. Currently, she attends the PhD program in Media and Communication Studies at Galatasaray University, Istanbul. Her main research interests include the convergence of television dramas on internet-distribution television; independent film and gatekeeping on video-on-demand services in Turkey.