I
have a PhD in Journalism from Cardiff University’s JOMEC programme. It is here I
examined how Turkish Cypriot radio news represented various forms of
nationalism. I also have a MA in Media Studies from Concordia University in
Canada where I researched how music magazines represent progressive politics in
popular music. It is these interests, radio, news, music and politics which
inform my research and teaching here at Hope. I teach in the integrated Media
and Communications branch of our faculty, being second year coordinator.
My
research and academic interests and expertise lie in multimodal critical
discourse analysis applied to a wide range of popular culture including news, radio
and especially popular music. I critically explore issues of social, political
and cultural identity, Orientalism, nationalism, ethnicity, populist and
personalized politics, digital and virtual media
communities, globalisation and transnational media flows. Currently, I
am examining newspaper coverage of Turkey’s 2016 attempted coup and completing
a monograph which examines issues of identity and politics in social media and
popular music.
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