This semester the focus at my MED 512 course is “Generative AI”

As I noted before, every semester, I choose a new topic to focus on in my Media Studies graduate-level course. It was Metaverse last year, and it will be the generative AI this year. We will be online again this semester, and I also started a Discord server for all my classes. If you like … Read more

My graduate course on Metaverse this semester

One of Bilgi Media MA’s graduate courses is called “Issues in Cyberculture Studies” The course name gives me the flexibility to choose a  new “issue” every semester. Sometimes, I have chosen several issues but this semester I will focus on Metaverse. In the context of social sciences, this is such an emerging issue that there … Read more

“Technologies of Relational Finance, i.e. #cryptocurrency” is the focus of my Spring semester course (MED512) [#bitcoin #blockchain #fintech]

This is the beginning of my research on cryptocurrency circles in Turkey. The course will have many guests from the industry. I offer the main reading list and all readings given in the links are education purposes who will disappear gradually. There will be additional news sharing and readings. I recommend the syllabus link to … Read more

This semester’s issue on my “Issues in Cyberculture Studies (MED 512)” course: “Web history and digital archiving”

This semester I have mobilized my classes and academic environment to create a database for Turkey’s internet history. There will be a series of works attached to this project (including a wiki based database) but in the mean time in one of my graduate level courses at Istanbul Bilgi University, Communication School, I have decided to take a … Read more