Bora Ataman is a Professor of Communication Sciences at Arts & Sciences Faculty, Dogus University. He is currently studying on topics such as activist citizen journalism, media activism and counter-surveillance, and journalism safety. Recent co-authored research articles include; ‘The Gezi Resistance and Activist Citizen Reporters’ published by De Gruyter’s Communications journal in Vol. 42, issue 1, in March 2017; ‘How safe is it? Being an Activist Citizen Journalist in Turkey’ published in an edited book titled ‘The Assault on Journalism’ (U. Carlsson & R. Pöyhtari, 2017) by Nordicom; ‘Counter-surveillance and alternative new media in Turkey’ published by Taylor & Francis’s Information, Communication and Society journal in Vol. 21, issue 7, in March 2018; ‘Turkey: How to deal with threats to journalism’ published in an edited book titled ‘Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, extremism and free expression’ (E. Eide, K. Skare Orgeret & N. Mutluer, 2019) by Nordicom and ‘A Review on the Safety of Journalists in Turkey: A Victims’ Rights Perspective’ in S. Jamil’s (ed.) 2020 book taitled ‘Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety’ by IGI Global. The last co-edited book of Ataman (with B. Çoban and Ö. Erkmen) published by Kafka in the early 2020 was ‘New Journalism - Mediums, Experiences, Opportunities’.