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Current Research

My dissertation project focuses on Wikipedia as a successor of the Western encyclopedic tradition, going back to Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Categories.
Along with the Internet and new media in general, my research interests include the history of the book and the interaction between different media ecologies and society.
I am also interested in the unique narrative potentials of comics, science fiction and video games.

Academic Background

I completed a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Management at the Istanbul Bilgi University in 2005, an MA in European Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 2006 and a research MA in Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam in 2008. I am currently a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam.

Conference Papers

‘Knowledge-as-read, Knowledge-as-consented: Wikipedia and the Evolution of Encyclopedic Knowledge’ – Click-on-Knowledge Conference. University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. May 11-13, 2011.

‘“That’s not how it happened in my story!” Immersion and Expansion in the Multi-Media Serial of Mass Effect’ - What Happens Next: The Mechanics of Serialization. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 25-26, 2011.

‘Commonplace Imaginings: Encyclopedias as a Space of Shared Knowledge Throughout the Ages’ - Articulation(s): ASCA International Workshop 2010, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 22-24, 2010.

‘Amsterdam and Golden Age Finance through the Eyes of a Sci-Fi Author.’ - Imagining Amsterdam: Visions and Revisions. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. November 19-21, 2009. (Co-Authored with Dr. Joyce Goggin)

‘Lifting Reportage to a Higher Level: The comics journalism of Joe Sacco’ – Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, International Conference on Narrative 2009. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom. June 4–6, 2009.

‘Yearning for Knowledge: Encyclopedic endeavor and the Internet’ - Media in Transition 6: Stone and papyrus, storage and transmission. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. April 24-26, 2009.

‘Intertextuality in the Dreaming; Theory and application of intertextuality to Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel, The Sandman.’ – Department of English, 8th Annual Graduate Student Conference. Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, United States. April 21, 2007.

MA Theses

Yearning for Knowledge: Encyclopedic Endeavor and the Internet. MA Thesis, 2008, Cultural Analysis, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Supervisor: Dr. Joyce Goggin

Europeanization, but not Europeanization; conflicting themes within Turkish modernization. (1890 – 1950). MA Thesis, 2006, European Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Louis Vos.

Professional Activities

My dissertation was chosen to be featured at the Doctoral Symposium of the WikiSym 2010 conference, held in Gdansk, Poland in July.

I co-organised a conference titled Critical Finance Studies III, held at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, August 18-20, 2010.

I have assisted the Institute of Network Cultures during the conference Critical Point of View, held in Amsterdam, March 26-27, 2010.

I was a panel speaker on 'Mapping the Digital World' and ‘New Writings – New Dramaturgies’ at the Post-Flux digital art and media event, held at the Center for Fine Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels on 6-8 November 2009.

I was an elected participant to the Pioneers event organized by the Felix Meritis Foundation, aiming to bring together innovative thinkers at the frontiers of active citizenship in Amsterdam and New York. Events were held in Amsterdam in April and in New York in November 2009.

I was among the winners of an essay competition held by the World Bank Organization on the subject of “Turkey and European Union Accession”, for undergraduate students in Turkey. I was awarded with an educational trip of one week (30 January- 5 February, 2005) to The World Bank Headquarters, WashingtonD.C

Post-FluxEvent website

Pioneers website

Critical Finance Studies III

WikiSym Website