Erdem Öngün (Ed.)
Erdem Öngün holds a Ph.D. degree in Applied Communication. In addition to numerous scientific articles and book chapters published in prestigious journals and publications around the world, Erdem Öngün has also completed quite a number of reviewing and editing assignments in various academic journals and he also conducted a national project at Trakya University. As a part of Erasmus academic exchange program, he gave lectures on Marketing Communication at University St Kliment Ohridski, Macedonia. He is currently the acting Head of the Public Relations and Advertising Department at Trakya University, Turkey. His subject areas of academic interest are digital communication, digital culture and communication and media studies.
Nilüfer Pembecioğlu (Ed.)
Nilüfer Pembecioğlu, a professor at Istanbul University's Faculty of Communication, Radio, Television, and Cinema, has authored numerous articles on topics such as teacher training, language, linguistics, education, communication, journalism, peace journalism, new media, citizenship, children, women, and advertising on a national and international level. With her projects, she has received the top academic researcher prize at Istanbul University six times. Since 2003, she has organized the International Children and Communication Congress and International Children's Film Festival. Apart from her academic writings, she has directed eight feature documentary films, 30 short films, and eight animations. She specialized in Media Literacy, Social Discrimination and Exclusion, Cyberbullying, Systemic Family Therapy, Film Therapy, and Systemic Family Therapy and Family Coaching. She mainly works with disadvantaged groups such as women, refugees, gifted, deaf, and handicapped children.
Uğur Gündüz (Ed.)
Uğur Gündüz graduated from Marmara University (the Department of Business Administration, the Faculty of Political and Economic Sciences) in 1999. He gained his PhD in Journalism at Istanbul University, for his dissertation “Westernization Concept in the Press: A Comparison of Young Turk Journalism and Present Journalism” in 2009. His research interests are the Sociology of Communication, New Media, History of Communication and Westernization, the Press and Modernization in Turkey. He is currently a Professor of the Department of Journalism at Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.