Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem

Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem

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Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
Ç.,Bozdağ Bucak
Ç. Bozdağ Bucak
Çiğdem, Bozdağ Bucak
Bozdag Bucak, Cigdem
C.,Bozdag Bucak
C. Bozdag Bucak
Cigdem, Bozdag Bucak
Bozdağ, Çiğdem
Bozdağ, Ç.

Job Title

Doç. Dr.

Email Address

Cıgdem.bozdag@khas.edu.tr

Main Affiliation

New Media

Status

Former Staff

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Scholarly Output

19

Articles

6

Citation Count

0

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New Media as a Space for Memory-Making in the Context of Visual Representations of Socio-Political Events
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Cebeci, Gamze; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
This thesis aims to discuss how narratives of socio-political events are represented through new media and attempts to reveal the effects of this usage in construction of memory. Three cases, namely "Map of Women Patrons' Structures in Ottoman Istanbul", Networks of Dispossession and projects of Hafıza Merkezi, were analyzed and expert interviews were made with the project coordinators. As a result of the analysis and after theoretical explanations that were applied to account for it, the role of new media in memory-making was underlined for its capacity to preserve and represent information as well as generate knowledge and provide access to it. It can be concluded that this study is a particular case of a broader phenomenon; it is only limited to the cases, however, by revealing the research processes and evaluation of finished products of the cases, it is believed that the inferences may lead to further studies that could deepen the analysis.
Citation - WoS: 6
Citation - Scopus: 11
Intercultural Learning in Schools Through Telecollaboration? a Critical Case Study of Etwinning Between Turkey and Germany
(Sage Publications Inc, 2018) Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
Digital media offer various possibilities for internet-based telecollaboration in schools and open up a space for intercultural learning. Diverse initiatives like such as the European Union-initiative eTwinning network aim to support telecollaboration projects in education. This article argues that we need to develop critical and grounded understanding of telecollaboration projects and how they are being embedded in the context of existing school cultures. The article presents an in-depth case study of a telecollaboration project between a Turkish and a German school. On the basis of observations in schools interviews with teachers and focus groups with pupils the article argues that there are two main challenges that limit the experience of intercultural learning in the analysed project. The first point is about the strong teacher-centred project design and the discrepancy between the perspectives of teachers and pupils. The second point is the rather simplistic and superficial understanding of culture which reasserts national cultures instead of promoting a more open perspective that influences the project tasks and topics.
Citation - WoS: 20
Citation - Scopus: 20
Editorial Introduction. Representations of Immigrants and Refugees: News Coverage Public Opinion and Media Literacy
(DE GRUYTER MOUTON, 2018) Smets, Kevin; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
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The Impact of Audience Feedback on Sns User's Self - Representation in the New Media Age
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2016) Ali, Yasmin Essam Said; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
This thesis examines the relationship between audience feedback and selfrepresentation on Facebook using Erving Goffman's dramaturgical model, focusing on the conceptions of audience and context on Facebook of Facebook-using students at Kadir Has University. I am exploring participants' perspectives in four main areas: Audience Feedback on Facebook user's posts and photos; examining user's response to audience feedback; investigating user's self-representation on Facebook; and finally examining if people's online and offline personalities are different and if they are presenting themselves differently in different situations and with different people. I examine the impact of audience feedback on Facebook users' behavior, and understand how Facebook users is re-presenting themselves online. Theoretically, I consider Goffman's model, by applying it to the findings and results of this study.
Challenging the Influence of Interactivity on Narrative Structures in Digital Games. an Analysis of Adventure Genres
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Yavuz, Nilufer Zeynep; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
This study analyzes the narrative structure of the computer games after the emergence of the computer technology which provides an opportunity for the game designers to create more extensive narrative structures. The aim is to introduce a framework which contains J. Campbell’s “monomyth” theory and C. Vogler’s modernization of the same theory specify the indicatives thereafter create an understanding of game narrative in an approach that is correspondent with the classical narrative structure. This thesis tries to indicate whether the entrance of a new perception of technology which brings the interactivity notion to human life changes the practices and the fundamentals of the classical narrative structure. The purpose of this thesis is to understand how the adventure game scenarios are constituted to see if the structure of the games have overtones of the classical narrative and to determine the influence of the interactivity by picking two games of adventure genre and analyzing their quest lines.
The Role of Social Media on Cultural Heritage Consciousness :a Case Study of Hagia Sophia and Foursquare
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Çetinkaya, Mustafa; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
The widespread cultural heritage consciousness is important for the protection and promotion of cultural assets. This study aims to examine the influence of social media tools on the widespread awareness of cultural heritage. The Hagia Sophia Museum was chosen as the sample place and Foursquare was selected as the sample social media tool. After examining the technical and theoretical background a triple research was designed. Foursquare interpretations of 2016 were transformed into a data set a survey was conducted for visitors at the Hagia Sophia Museum and expert opinions were sought. The results of the research have been analyzed within the framework of the knowledge and views gained in the technical and theoretical background. it has been seen that the development of social media technologies and tools has positive effects on the widespread of cultural heritage consciousness.
Citation - WoS: 33
Understanding the Images of Alan Kurdi With "small Data": a Qualitative, Comparative Analysis of Tweets About Refugees in Turkey and Flanders (belgium)
(USC Annenberg Press, 2017) Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Smets, Kevin
One of the peak moments of the debate on the European refugee crisis was caused by the circulation of images of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Aegean Sea on September 2, 2015. The images triggered worldwide reactions from politicians, nongovernmental organizations, and citizens. This article analyzes these reactions through a qualitative study of 961 tweets from Turkey and Flanders (Belgium), contextualizing them into the framing and representation of refugees before and after the images were released. Our study finds that, despite their iconic qualities and potential to mobilize Twitter users around refugee issues, the images did not cause a major shift in common discourses and representations. Instead, references to Kurdi were incorporated into preexisting discourses on and representations of refugees, thus offering different actors in the public debate on refugees with new symbols and motifs to construct meaning.
The Factors That Influence the Transformation of a Regular User To a Youtube Celebrity
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2016) Kahraman, Ninsu; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
The purpose of this research is to explain the factors that are efficient for being a YouTube celebrity rather than a regular user of YouTube. The goal is to show that YouTube users have something in common while creating their content. Since YouTube recently became a business opportunity in Turkey it has users attention. To identify patterns among YouTube content creators i made interviews with them. Then analyze the findings and created the path of being YouTube celebrity.
The Adoption and Influences of Big Data in Tourism Industry in Turkey
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Küçükbatır, Merve; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
The adoption Today’s common belief on big data says all sorts of industries will become much more efficient through the data-driven evidence. The tourism industry is one of those industries which thrive on information. Together with the adoption of big data in tourism industry there is a number of opportunities arising which might help organizations in providing predictive modelling analysis and key insights. These insights can provide businesses with more integrated view of the whole industry and accordingly much more enhanced relationship with customers through a focused and responsive approach to customers’ needs and preferences. This study concludes that predictive analytics can help businesses in anticipating what is likely to happen in the future and comprehend the fundamental causes of different results and thus correlate different insights for future forecasting. However the way of gaining more opportunities is not only related with putting the technologies related with big data into use but also related with the expertise of the personnel/data team. and influences of big data in tourism industry in Turkey
Incorporating the Non-Expert Publıic To Heritage Practices From Below
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Toktaş, Özge; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
in our 21st century cultural heritage field grows to be much more dynamic participatory open to change and dialogue. The scope of cultural heritage too broadens. People who are supposed to inherit heritage are acknowledged as not just mere inheritors anymore but also as the creators of heritage itself. Quite supportive of this development new media lead the way of hearing user-generated contents in cultural heritage practices that used to be strictly confined to the expert-based opinions. in light of these progresses this thesis endeavors to make visible the efforts of incorporating the non-expert public to heritage practices from below in Turkey. Although there are institutional efforts of integrating the public to the cultural heritage practices through new media and there are studies on such efforts the heritage practices from below are quite neglected by the scholarly literature here in Turkey. Following up this fact this thesis elaborates on the four cases which embrace a bottom-up heritage discourse in Turkey. Adopting an ethnographic approach the thesis analyzes the four chosen cases (Ýstanbul Kent Savunmasi Memory Map UrbanObscura Adalara Ses Ol) through in depth interviews and concludes with an argument that to achieve a bottom-up application of such participatory discourse is difficult while the expert’s dominance design and guidance is still impenetrable. Altogether the cases examined here indeed variegate heritage stories.