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Gülşah Sarı works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Radio Tele- vision and Cinema, in Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey. She became a Ph.D. in İstanbul University, Department of Radio Television and Cinema in 2016. She held a master degree in Marmara University, department of Cinema in 2010. She has published several papers in journals and books including women’s studies, gender, digital communication, communication studies.

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Elçin Akçora As was born on May 29, 1991 in Izmir. After completing her high school education in İzmir, she graduated from the Department of Cinema and Television at Afyon Kocatepe University. She completed her undergraduate education by taking part in many projects and presenting papers in various symposiums with the first degree of faculty. After her undergraduate education, she worked as assistant director and reporter in various production and channels. In 2015, she completed her master’s degree at Ordu University with her thesis titled “Derviş Zaim Cinema from the Auteur Theory Perspective”. Elçin Akçora AS is currently working as a research assistant in the Department of Visual Communication Design at Ege University. At the same time, she is continuing her doctoral thesis studies in the department of Radio, Television and Cinema. Her research interests include interactive documentaries, digital storytelling, and interactive media designs.

Seda Aktaş, after graduated from English Language and Literature, received her Master’s degree in Communication Design. She applied collective production methods while she was taking education on filmmaking. She completed her PhD in Cinema department of Marmara University with the thesis named as “Crowd- funding as an Alternative Way of Film Making in Terms of Digitalisation and The Crowdfunding Campaigns in Turkey”. Currently, she is working as an associate professor in the Department of Performing Arts at Nişantaşı University. She carries About the Contributors out crowdfunding campaigns with filmmakers and sets up workshops. Her research areas includes collective film making, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, intertextuality and feminist theory in film studies.

Armoni Bayar studies Linguistics Studies as a graduate student in Istanbul University.

Meltem Yılmaz Bilecen graduated from the Ankara University Public Relations program. She received her Master’s degree from Gazi University Social Science Institute Public Relations and her PhD from Ankara University Social Science Institute Public Relations.

Birol Demircan is currently working as an academician at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University. He completed his Phd at Gazi University Institute of Social Sci- ences, in 2015. He was a visiting researcher at Central Washington University and studying about political communication.

Gökhan Gültekin was born in 1985. Completed his Undergraduate (2009), Master (2012) and PhD (2017) education at Selçuk University in Turkey. He has been working to study in Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Communication, Radio, TV and Cinema Department as research assistant since May 2012. His main working areas are popular cinema, cinema and aesthetic, cinema and philosophy.

Özge Gürsoy Atar graduated Kemal Atatürk High School in 2003. She works as an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Cinema and Television, in Beykent University. She completed a Ph.D.at İstanbul University in April 2016. She held a master degree in Marmara University, department of Radio, Television and Cinema in 2011. Between 2011 and 2015 she worked as internet television planning specialist at the Digiturk. Between 2015 and 2018 she worked as department of Radio Television Program in Kavram Vocational School. Her research concerns Television, Media Study, New Communication Technologies, New Media, New Television, IPTV, OTT, Media Planning, Digital Culture, Communication İn Digital Culture. She has published several papers in television, new media, media study and communication research.

Şebnem Gürsoy Ulusoy graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Litera- ture, Information and Document Management (2005). She received her MA degree in Marketing Communication and Public Relations from Bahcesehir University (2007) and her Ph.D. degree in Media Studies from Yeditepe University (2016). He started to work at İstanbul Gelişim University (2017) (She worked as a training

272 About the Contributors coordinator at İstek Foundation, Acıce Schools). She is still working at the School of Applied Sciences in İstanbul Gelişim University. Main fields of study are inter- personal communication, academic communication, communication disorders and communication limitations.

Özgür İpek was born on Sept. 8, 1986 in North Cyprus. He works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Radio Television and Cinema, in Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversity, Turkey. Özgür İpek became a Ph.D. in İstanbul University, Department of Radio Television and Cinema in 2016. He also held a master degree in Istanbul University, Department of Radio Television and Cinema in 2012. He has published several papers in journals and books including politic cinema, cinema philosophy, Cinema of Iran and subaltern characters in movies.

Yasemin Kılınçarslan is a Lecturer in Uşak University Communication Faculty Dept. of Radio Television Cinema.

Yeliz Okay was born in 1977 in İstanbul, Turkey. She was graduated from Marmara University/İstanbul. Then she received her doctoral degrees form Sociol- ogy and Turkish Language and Literature, both. She published articles, books and edited books about sociology, literature, ethnography and international relations.

Alev Fatoş Parsa graduated her BA in Dept. of Cinema-TV-Photography from Faculty of Fine Arts, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey. She worked for three years the news program Hürriyet TV Production as a director of photography & producer. She took her MA and PhD in Institute of Social Sciences in Radio-TV- Film Studies from Ege University in İzmir where she has been working as a Prof. Dr. since 1997. She has written many books, articles in periodicals, paper presentations in international conferences and has also awarded documentary film as a director. Research interests are directed primarily toward 21. century literacy research in a variety of interrelated areas which include new media and visual literacy. Besides another research interests are directed to lectures thought about documentary film making (pre-production / production and post-production process) and visual images in the semiotic methodology. She has been in the Annenberg School for Commu- nication at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN) for three months as a visiting scholar in 2011. She has two daughters.

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Işıl Tombul graduated from Ege University Communication Faculty Radio Television and Cinema Department in 2003. She completed master’s degree at Ege University Social Sciences Institute in 2006 and completed PhD. degree Ege Uni- versity Social Sciences Institute in 2011. The author studies on discourse, gender, and cinema.

Dilan Tüysüz graduated from Public Relations and Advertising Department at Ege University, İzmir. She had a MSc and PhD degrees from at the Radio Televi- sion and Cinema department at the Ege University. Currently, she is an Assistant of Professor Radio, Television and Cinema at Adnan Menderes University, Aydın. Her academic interest in Turkish and World Cinema, cultural studies and sociology.

Dilek Ulusal graduated from Gazi University Communication Faculty Journalism Department in 2003 She graduated from Erciyes University Journalism department 2007 with master degree. She graduated from Gazi University as Ph.D. degree in 2018. She studies on cinema, television, communication studies.

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