Browsing by Author "Irmak, B."

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Changing Masculinities and Femininities: A Comparative Analysis of Bridget Jones's Diary and Pride and Prejudice
(Peter Lang AG, 2015) Irmak, B.
Collaboration in Media Studies: Doing and Being Together
(Taylor and Francis, 2024) Irmak, B.; Kocak, C.; Sesigür, O.; Haydari, N.
This volume offers new perspectives on knowledge production through various forms of togetherness. Via diverse cases of collaboration in media studies, from methodological contemplations to on-the-field social practices, the book proposes reflections and inquiries around collective research, media, and action. The collection rethinks how scholarly endeavours feature different ways of doing and being together, identifying new and more diverse communicative spaces, challenging dichotomies, and encouraging critical perspectives. Scholars of a variety of disciplines recontextualise collaboration beyond the very nature of conventional academic approaches, to embrace vast connotations of media studies - from actions building connections across research and practice to transdisciplinary methodologies through analogue and digital realms. This book will be an invaluable resource for scholars and post-graduate students from various fields of media studies, who carry an interest in collaborative and collective aspects of media as practice and research, as well as those in a variety of social science disciplines, participatory action research, media sociology, audience studies, intercultural communication, qualitative research methods, and participatory communication. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Begüm Irmak, Can Koçak, Onur Sesigür and Nazan Haydari; individual chapters, the contributors.
Duo Autoethnographic Approach to Peer-to-Peer Collaboration in PhD Process
(Taylor and Francis, 2024) Irmak, B.; Ulutaş, A.
This debate demonstrates two PhD students’ joint work in altering an often-isolated learning experience through interactions and collaboration with one another. As qualitative researchers, we formed a peer support system that began at the start of the PhD program and has continued to this day in the thesis writing process. During their doctoral program at Bilgi University, the peer authors encountered a unique sort of collaboration that evolved naturally and organically. By utilising duo autoethnography, the goal of this chapter is to identify and examine the impact of organic collaboration and peer-to-peer support on doctorate student completion. Concurring on the idea that peer collaboration is a key component in academic success and student performance, especially within higher educational doctoral programs and improvement of completion rates in doctoral programs, peer authors will visit the meanings and boundaries of the listed conceptual frameworks, driving from their own experiences. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Begüm Irmak, Can Koçak, Onur Sesigür and Nazan Haydari; individual chapters, the contributors.
Introduction: Doing and Being Together
(Taylor and Francis, 2024) Irmak, B.; Kocak, C.; Sesigür, O.; Haydari, N.
How do we act, think, produce, or do research together, and how do we understand this togetherness from a media studies perspective? How can joint motivations be combined to create knowledge that spans the sum of individual intentions? While bringing together various subfields within and cases from media studies, this collection rethinks how scholarly endeavours feature different ways of doing and being together, identifying new and more diverse communicative spaces, challenging dichotomies, and encouraging critical perspectives. Taking a colloquial understanding of doing and being together as a facilitator of encounter among scholars and various other agents, such as civil society organisations, artists, and practitioners, the authors of this edited collection embrace vast connotations of media studies - from actions building connections across research and practice to transdisciplinary methodologies promoting new ways of togetherness through analogue and digital realms. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Begüm Irmak, Can Koçak, Onur Sesigür and Nazan Haydari; individual chapters, the contributors.