Mehmet Ali Icbay
Biographic Data
| ID | 301548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mehmet Ali Icbay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mehmet Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Icbay |
| SIGNATURE | ICBAY M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6789-0306 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The role of intercultural communication in the workplace adaptation of high-skilled Turkish immigrants in Vienna
Ending the VAR protocol
This study explores how Video Assistant Referee (VAR) protocols are closed in professional football. Drawing on 107 recordings released by the Turkish Football Federation in 2024–2025, it uses ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to investigate how referees and VAR officials turn video reviews into final decisions. Analysis reveals a sequence: participants treat evidence as sufficient, the referee formulates a decision, the VAR ratifies it …
Repair on the Page
This paper explores written repair in handwritten undergraduate essays from an ethnomethodological perspective. Rather than treating corrections as surface imperfections or indicators of deficient competence, this paper approaches strikethroughs, overwriting, insertions, arrows, and marginal additions as members’ methods for maintaining intelligibility in the course of text production. The data consist primarily of handwritten, in-class essays pr…
Accomplishing VAR protocols
This study explores how decision-making is collaboratively accomplished in Video Assistant Referee (VAR) protocols as a form of technologically mediated, high-stakes professional communication. Using 107 official VAR recordings from the 2024–2025 Turkish Football Federation season, including a mid-season shift from Turkish to English as a lingua franca (EFL), the analysis uncovers how on-field referees (REFs) and VAR officials reach consensus. Fi…
The Interactional Accomplishment of Refereeing Decisions in VAR Protocols
This study explores how on-field referees (REF) and Video Assistant Referees (VAR) collaboratively accomplish decision-making during in-match video review sequences in professional football. While VAR was introduced to increase accuracy and reduce error, discrepancies between the VAR's recommendation and the REF's final decision remain a persistent feature of match officiating. This paper investigates in detail these moments of agreement and disa…
Workplace violence against physicians in Türkiye
Workplace violence against physicians is a significant issue within the Turkish healthcare system, demanding comprehensive insights to inform targeted interventions. This phenomenological study explores the experiences of four manager-physicians, selected through purposive sampling based on specific criteria, such as a minimum of 25 years of experience and current managerial roles, through two rounds of in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The f…
Exploring the Emca Community
This work explores the professional experiences, challenges, and collective identity of scholars within the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA) community. Through the analysis of survey data from 43 participants, semi-structured interviews with 10 scholars, and the examination of relevant community documents, this research uncovers how EMCA practitioners navigate their academic careers, engage with interdisciplinary networks, and co…
Laughing alone and laughing together in panel meetings
This paper is about the interactional organization of shared laughter in a multi-party institutional setting. It explored how laughter was produced and shared in a series of panel meetings in a medical school. The audio data were taken from Competency Project, a NIHM-funded (National Institute of Mental Health) research designed to investigate how the judgments of professional competence in medical schools were constructed. In the panel meetings,…
Current Approaches in Social Sciences
Contextual Approaches in Sociology
Research on Humanities and Social Sciences
Member accounts in the assessment of professional competence
The process of licensing within the medical profession is built on a practical work of defining what competences constitute the profession, of determining how these competences can be acquired, and of specifying how they can be assessed. In order to obtain a medical license in the United States, medical students are evaluated on the basis of clinical encounters with standardized patients. By demonstrating how medical students’ performances in cli…
Exploring the Emca Community
This work explores the professional experiences, challenges, and collective identity of scholars within the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA) community. Through the analysis of survey data from 43 participants, semi-structured interviews with 10 scholars, and the examination of relevant community documents, this research uncovers how EMCA practitioners navigate their academic careers, engage with interdisciplinary networks, and co…
Member accounts in the assessment of professional competence
The process of licensing within the medical profession is built on a practical work of defining what competences constitute the profession, of determining how these competences can be acquired, and of specifying how they can be assessed. In order to obtain a medical license in the United States, medical students are evaluated on the basis of clinical encounters with standardized patients. By demonstrating how medical students’ performances in cli…
Current Approaches in Social Sciences
Contextual Approaches in Sociology
Research on Humanities and Social Sciences
Laughing alone and laughing together in panel meetings
This paper is about the interactional organization of shared laughter in a multi-party institutional setting. It explored how laughter was produced and shared in a series of panel meetings in a medical school. The audio data were taken from Competency Project, a NIHM-funded (National Institute of Mental Health) research designed to investigate how the judgments of professional competence in medical schools were constructed. In the panel meetings,…
Workplace violence against physicians in Türkiye
Workplace violence against physicians is a significant issue within the Turkish healthcare system, demanding comprehensive insights to inform targeted interventions. This phenomenological study explores the experiences of four manager-physicians, selected through purposive sampling based on specific criteria, such as a minimum of 25 years of experience and current managerial roles, through two rounds of in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The f…
Exploring the Emca Community
This work explores the professional experiences, challenges, and collective identity of scholars within the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA) community. Through the analysis of survey data from 43 participants, semi-structured interviews with 10 scholars, and the examination of relevant community documents, this research uncovers how EMCA practitioners navigate their academic careers, engage with interdisciplinary networks, and co…
The role of intercultural communication in the workplace adaptation of high-skilled Turkish immigrants in Vienna
Ending the VAR protocol
This study explores how Video Assistant Referee (VAR) protocols are closed in professional football. Drawing on 107 recordings released by the Turkish Football Federation in 2024–2025, it uses ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to investigate how referees and VAR officials turn video reviews into final decisions. Analysis reveals a sequence: participants treat evidence as sufficient, the referee formulates a decision, the VAR ratifies it …
Repair on the Page
This paper explores written repair in handwritten undergraduate essays from an ethnomethodological perspective. Rather than treating corrections as surface imperfections or indicators of deficient competence, this paper approaches strikethroughs, overwriting, insertions, arrows, and marginal additions as members’ methods for maintaining intelligibility in the course of text production. The data consist primarily of handwritten, in-class essays pr…
Accomplishing VAR protocols
This study explores how decision-making is collaboratively accomplished in Video Assistant Referee (VAR) protocols as a form of technologically mediated, high-stakes professional communication. Using 107 official VAR recordings from the 2024–2025 Turkish Football Federation season, including a mid-season shift from Turkish to English as a lingua franca (EFL), the analysis uncovers how on-field referees (REFs) and VAR officials reach consensus. Fi…
The Interactional Accomplishment of Refereeing Decisions in VAR Protocols
This study explores how on-field referees (REF) and Video Assistant Referees (VAR) collaboratively accomplish decision-making during in-match video review sequences in professional football. While VAR was introduced to increase accuracy and reduce error, discrepancies between the VAR's recommendation and the REF's final decision remain a persistent feature of match officiating. This paper investigates in detail these moments of agreement and disa…
Computer Science (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Football (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Sport Psychology and Performance (3 works) · Competence (human resources (2 works)