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Publication Restricted An information theoretical study on nanoscale communication channels with molecule diversity(Koç University, 2013) Ünlütürk, Bige Deniz; Akan, Özgür Barış; 0000-0003-2523-3858; Koç University Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering; Electrical and Electronics Engineering; 6647Publication Open Access Big data analytics and the limits of privacy self-management(Sage, 2017) Popescu, M.; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Baruh, Lemi; Department of Media and Visual Arts; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesThis article looks at how the logic of big data analytics, which promotes an aura of unchallenged objectivity to the algorithmic analysis of quantitative data, preempts individuals' ability to self-define and closes off any opportunity for those inferences to be challenged or resisted. We argue that the predominant privacy protection regimes based on the privacy self-management framework of "notice and choice" not only fail to protect individual privacy, but also underplay privacy as a collective good. To illustrate this claim, we discuss how two possible individual strategies-withdrawal from the market (avoidance) and complete reliance on market-provided privacy protections (assimilation)-may result in less privacy options available to the society at large. We conclude by discussing how acknowledging the collective dimension of privacy could provide more meaningful alternatives for privacy protection.Publication Open Access Corporeal violence in art-house cinema: Cannes 2009(Taylor _ Francis, 2016) Department of Media and Visual Arts; Rappas, İpek Azime Çelik; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesTaking 2009 Cannes Film Festival as a case study this article explores the narrative limits and possibilities of a global movement in art-house cinema: the portrayal of extreme corporeal violence - a movement that ranges from new French extreme to Asian extreme cinema. Cannes 2009 housed a collection of films that display extreme bodily violence, showing acts ranging from brutal rape and dismembering of the body to graphic scenes of torture, genital mutilation and murders. The analysis of a selection of festival films provides an opportunity to track a transnational movement in which graphic scenes of violence become not only a convenient tool to further audience affect, but also a means to reinforce the reality effect. This study, on the one hand, explores how films that display extreme bodily violence as an eruptive force seek memorability in the competitive art-house film market. On the other hand, it suggests that on the eve of the 2009 global financial crisis, showing corporeal affect alludes to the disposability of bodies under a neoliberal economy obsessed with efficiency and adaptability. Hence, the ethical impulse that seeks the production of sympathetic bodies in the audience often goes hand in hand with the marketing of sensationalism.Publication Open Access Design thinking in transitional period(Frontiers, 2022) Department of Media and Visual Arts; Özcan, Oğuzhan; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; KU Arçelik Research Center for Creative Industries (KUAR) / KU Arçelik Yaratıcı Endüstriler Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (KUAR); College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 12532In this speculative look of design thinking through the lens of the Renaissance, the author draws our attention to the shocking similarity between the transition in today's world and the Industrial Era. In this comparison, he emphasizes the similar role of “arts in Renaissance” concept and Design Thinking. In this perspective, the author's concern is not about discussing how the Design Thinking process will be in the new era, but just speculating its role as a tool in such a transitional period.Publication Open Access Digital populism: trolls and political polarization of Twitter in Turkey(University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication _ Journalism, 2017) Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of Sociology; Bulut, Ergin; Yörük, Erdem; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 219279; 28982This article analyzes political trolling in Turkey through the lens of mediated populism. Twitter trolling in Turkey has diverged from its original uses (i.e., poking fun, flaming, etc.) toward government-led polarization and right-wing populism. Failing to develop an effective strategy to mobilize online masses, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (JDP/AKP) relied on the polarizing performances of a large progovernment troll army. Trolls deploy three features of JDP’s populism: serving the people, fetish of the will of the people, and demonization. Whereas trolls traditionally target and mock institutions, Turkey’s political trolls act on behalf of the establishment. They produce a digital culture of lynching and censorship. Trolls’ language also impacts pro-JDP journalists who act like trolls and attack journalists, academics, and artists critical of the government.Publication Restricted Do financial markets react to the Central Bank of Turkey's communication?(Koç University, 2011) Dinçbaş, Neslihan; Demiralp, Selva; 0000-0003-4087-168X; Koç University Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; Economics; 42533Publication Restricted Information and communication theoretical modeling, design, and analysis of heterogeneous nanoscale communication channels(Koç University, 2013) Kılınç, Deniz; Akan, Özgür Barış; 0000-0003-2523-3858; Koç University Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering; Electrical and Electronics Engineering; 6647Publication Restricted Intra-body molecular communications: A theoretical study on synaptic multiple-access channel(Koç University, 2013) Malak, Derya; Akan, Özgür Barış; 0000-0003-2523-3858; Koç University Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering; Electrical and Electronics Engineering; 6647Publication Open Access Introduction: academic labour, digital media and capitalism(TripleC, 2018) Allmer, Thomas; Department of Media and Visual Arts; Bulut, Ergin; Faculty Member; Department of Media and Visual Arts; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 219279Publication Open Access Introduction: gender, migration, and the media(Taylor _ Francis, 2018) Mattoscio, Mara; Department of Comparative Literature; MacDonald, Megan Catherine; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities