معرفی
Ayça Gökdemir serves as a Researcher at Kastamonu University's Department of Journalism within the Faculty of Communication since 2020, concurrently holding the Erasmus Coordinator position since 2025. Her academic journey includes comprehensive training in journalism across all degree levels at Erciyes University.
Her educational foundation comprises:
- PhD in Journalism, Erciyes University Institute of Social Sciences (2019-2023), dissertation: 'Medyada Doğu-Batı Temsilleri Bağlamında Terör Eylemi Haberlerinin Karşılaştırılması: Alman Basını Örneği'
- Master's in Journalism (Thesis), Erciyes University Institute of Social Sciences (2016-2019), thesis: 'İnternet medyasında yabancı algısı (Almanyada yaşayan Türkler örneği)'
- BA in Journalism, Erciyes University Faculty of Communication (2012-2016)
Dr. Gökdemir's research centers on critical analysis of media representation across geopolitical conflicts and cultural boundaries, with particular expertise in Israel-Palestine conflict coverage, Russo-Ukrainian war reporting, Islamophobia in European media, and new journalism technologies. Her methodological approach integrates semiotic analysis and critical discourse frameworks to examine how media constructs narratives around terrorism, luxury consumption, and minority representation.
Her publication trajectory (2018-2025) reveals evolving scholarly priorities: early work focused on Turkish diaspora representation in German internet media, progressing to contemporary analyses of AI standardization in news agencies, stereotyping in television series (notably 'Babil'), and geopolitical framing in war reporting. This progression demonstrates increasing engagement with digital transformation in journalism while maintaining consistent cross-cultural comparative methodology.
Dr. Gökdemir actively contributes to academic service as Associate Editor of Kastamonu Communication Research Journal since 2022 and teaches seventeen undergraduate courses including Radio-Television Broadcasting, Media Language and Literacy, and Contemporary Approaches in Journalism. Her sole research project 'Internet Medyasında Yabancı Algısı (Almanya’da Yaşayan Türkler Örneği)' (2018-2019) investigated foreign perception through the lens of Turks in Germany, reflecting her sustained interest in transnational media representation.