California State University, San Bernardino

Faculty Member, Communication Studies

Assistant Professor

Arts and Letters

Thesis Title: Courting via Talk Radio: An Ethnography of Local Media and Youth in Southeast Turkey

About

I received my Ph.D. in Mass Communication from Ohio University in 2003 and previously taught at Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus and at the University of Iowa.

My scholarly interests range widely, from globalization and digital media, international communication, local and community media, to national/cultural/youth identities, modernity, media ethnography and audiences even though they are all rooted in my training in media and cultural studies. 

My research focuses on the role of local and community media in cultural politics –especially ethnic and religious—as articulated within and against today’s global, digital and transmedia environment. I am particularly interested in Kurdish and Islamist media formations in Turkey. I also study the impact of the commercialized and privatized national mediascape on Turkish national/cultural identity and the public sphere. Women’s access to and use of information technologies in the Middle East is another area of inquiry for me. My work has been published in media and communication journals such as Journal of Radio Studies, The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, Television and New Media, Political Communication and in several edited collections.

I have received several awards, including the Best Faculty Paper Award at the Global Fusion 2009: Global Media and Communication Conference in October 2009 and the James E. Murphy Best Faculty Paper Award from the Critical Cultural Studies Division of the AEJMC Conference in July 2003.

I am on editorial boards of Journal of International Communication and Global Media Journal's Mediterranean Edition.

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