Zeyno Ustun

Dr. Zeyno Ustun is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Digital Media&Film at St. Lawrence University. She previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019-2021) at the Center for Media at Risk within the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores the intersection of traditional media, critical media studies, global media infrastructures, and the dynamics of power in decentralized networks, particularly in the Global South.

• PhD in Sociology (2019), New School for Social Research
• First MA in Sociology (thesis: Desire of the Impossible; A Cultural Reading of Fantastic Cinema), Bogaziçi University
• Second MA in Sociology, New School for Social Research

Her work focuses on networked social movements like the 2013 Gezi Movement in Turkey, analyzing tensions between universal-technical systems and local-legal frameworks in distributed mediation. She employs a mixed-method approach termed cartographic ethnography to create digital archives documenting socio-technical processes.

• Scientific Award: Postdoctoral Fellowship at Center for Media at Risk, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Ustun contributed to Graph Commons (2011-2019), a data-network mapping platform, which she continues to integrate into her academic and activist practices. Contact: Piskor Hall 210, zustun@stlawu.edu. Office hours: MW 11:50-12:50 and by appointment.