Biography
He earned his master’s and PhD degrees from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University. During 2006-2007, he was a visiting researcher at the Department of Political Science at the New School for Social Research, supported by a Fulbright Scholarship. His academic career includes positions at Middle East Technical University, Akdeniz University, Kadir Has University, and Istanbul Bilgi University. He is interested in everything under and above the sun, but his primary focus lies in communication theories, political communication, the sociology of communication, media consumption, political and social theory, cultural studies, and the political and cultural life in Turkey. He is in the process of completing his book titled “A Century of Votes,” which explores the hundred-year evolution of election campaigns in Turkey. Additionally, he has commenced work on his next book, “An Intellectual History of the Idea of Communication: Between Philosophy and Sociology.” Currently, he is a researcher on two separate TÜBİTAK 1001 projects: “Rethinking Active Citizenship in the 100th Anniversary of the Republic” and “Forms of Nationalism in Izmir: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Debates.”
Courses Taught
- COMD 203 Media Studies I
- COMD 204 Media Studies II
- COMD 512 Foundations in Visual Studies
Selected Publications & WorksSelected Publications & Works
- Özçetin and İldoğan 2026 Withdrawing from Europe: Eurovision and the Struggle over Cultural Hegemony in Turkey, full paper submitted to ESC Conference, Sorbonne, Paris.
- Özçetin and İldoğan 2026 Protest Music and Collective Memory in Turkey: From 1970s Student Activism to the 2013 Gezi Park Protests, in publication process
- Özçetin and Emre 2026 Chronicles of Refugees in Turkey: A Comprehensive Analysis of News Reporting from 2011-2020, in publication process
- Özçetin 2026 The “good refugee” ideal in Turkey: Analyzing Media Representations of Refugees in the Turkish Press (2011-2020), in publication process [New Perspectives on Turkey]
- Özçetin and Turan 2026 Nonpolitical Politicization in and Through Sports in Turkey: Four Fragments of Opposition, Sport, Activism, and Social Movements: International Perspectives, eds. Turner and Ludvigsen, Routledge
- Özçetin 2026 Türkiye’de Seçimler ve Seçim Kampanyaları Üzerine Düşünmek: Bir Dönemleştirme Denemesi, Ayşe Ayata’ya Armağan, eds. Ergun and Ertuğrul, İmge Yayınları
- Bas, Altinok and Ozcetin 2025 Informed and Active? Online News Consumption and Self-Censorship in Networked Authoritarianism: The case of Türkiye, 76th Annual International Communication Association Conference, 4-8 June 2026, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Özçetin 2025 Fake News Online and Beyond, European Journal of Communication, 40(6)
Ongoing Projects
- Forms of Nationalism in Izmir: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Debates, lead investigator Serhun Al, TÜBİTAK 1001
- Rethinking Active Citizenship in the 100th Anniversary of the Republic: Political Participation and Citizen Interaction on Social Media, lead investigator Özen Baş, TUBİTAK 1001
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