Cigdem Bozdag
Biographic Data
| ID | 4267096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cigdem Bozdag |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cigdem |
| FAMILY NAME | Bozdag |
| SIGNATURE | BOZDAG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4514-6340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding young adults’ resilience to disinformation: A cross-national analysis of daily tactics and resources to navigate information
Little is known about how resilience to disinformation develops and manifests in people’s daily lives. Addressing this gap, our study investigates young adults’ tactics for navigating disinformation and the resources they draw from throughout this process. Based on 29 semi-structured interviews with young adults (aged 18–32) in Germany and the Netherlands, we develop a taxonomy of tactics for navigating disinformation. Our comparative analysis re…
So Emotional? The Role of Emotions for Young Adults’ Resilience to Disinformation
The chaotic information environment during (poly)crises, marked by urgency and heightened emotions, complicates truth assessments and provides fertile ground for the proliferation of disinformation. While the role of emotions in shaping disinformation beliefs and sharing is widely acknowledged, there is little empirical evidence on how and under what circumstances emotions impact responses to disinformation. To provide an in-depth understanding, …
Disconnectivity in a Changing Media and Political Landscape: A Multi-Contextual and Interdisciplinary Lens
This thematic issue examines disconnectivity in a world where connectivity is often assumed to be the norm. Drawing on multiple areas of research, such as political unfriending, digital disconnection, migration studies, and media censorship, it delves into the complexities of disconnectivity, moving beyond its framing as voluntary choice and individual practice. Collectively, studies in this issue highlight disconnection as a compelled act for se…
Multilingual media repertoires of young people in the migration society: A plea for a language and culture-aware approach to media education
Digital media provide easy access to media content in multiple languages from local, national, and transnational contexts. This accessibility of diverse content enables young people in the migration society to develop multilingual and transnational media repertoires: they have the option to continuously and strategically navigate between different platforms, between different contexts and multiple languages. In this paper, we discuss how multilin…
Inclusive Media Education in the Diverse Classroom: A Participatory Action Research in Germany
Media literacy has become a key concept for understanding how different citizens develop the capacity to participate in the mediatized society. One key question here is how media literacy education can support people of diverse backgrounds to have equal chances of benefiting from the media. Furthermore, as many schools are characterized by superdiversity, especially in bigger cities (Crul et al., 2013), there is also a need for research on media …
Skeptical Inertia in the Face of Polarization: News Consumption and Misinformation in Turkey
Focusing on Turkey, this article analyzes the role of polarization on news users’ perception of misinformation and mistrust in the news on social media. Turkey is one of the countries where citizens complain most about misinformation on the internet. The citizens’ trust in news institutions is also in continuous decline. Furthermore, both Turkish society and its media landscape are politically highly polarized. Focusing on Turkey’s highly polariz…
Managing Diverse Online Networks in the Context of Polarization: Understanding How We Grow Apart on and through Social Media
Social media enable their users to be connected with a diverse group of people increasing their chances of coming across divergent viewpoints. Thus, network diversity is a key issue for understanding the potentials of social media for creating a cross-cutting communication space that is one of the premises of a functioning democracy. This article analyzes the strategies social media users adopt to manage their network diversity in the context of …
Bottom-up nationalism and discrimination on social media: An analysis of the citizenship debate about refugees in Turkey
This study analyzes social media representations of refugees in Turkey and discusses their role in shaping public opinion. The influx of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey has created heated debates about their presence and future in the country. One of these debates was triggered by President Erdoğan’s statement that Turkey would issue citizenship rights to Syrians in July 2016. Due to a lack of critical voices about refugee issues in Turkey’…
Intercultural learning in schools through telecollaboration? A critical case study of eTwinning between Turkey and Germany
Digital media offer various possibilities for internet-based telecollaboration in schools and open up a space for intercultural learning. Diverse initiatives like such as the European Union-initiative eTwinning network aim to support telecollaboration projects in education. This article argues that we need to develop critical and grounded understanding of telecollaboration projects and how they are being embedded in the context of existing school…
Media–Bridge–Cultures: Exploring mediated cultural encounters
Love stories and diasporic identity narratives: Mediatized practices of storytelling in the Moroccan diaspora
Storytelling is one of the oldest ways of giving human experiences a meaning and presenting the world from one’s own perspective. Stories are amongst key cultural resources for identity construction. Throughout the history of technologies, storytelling has become highly mediatized, enabling new and more interactive forms of storytelling. The presented research focuses on digital, diasporic love stories that are shared on an online diasporic discu…
Ethnicity in digital crossroads. Understanding processes of cultural thickening in a mediatized world
This article discusses existing approaches to ethnic community building in diaspora and suggests that the concept of ‘cultural thickening’ can be useful for the understanding of ethnicity in a ‘mediatized world’. It is argued that in everyday life, ethnicity is continuously being (re-)constructed through repetitive practices of mediated and non-mediated communication, through which ethnic boundary-making takes place. This theoretical framework is…
Policies of media and cultural integration in Germany: From guestworker programmes to a more integrative framework
After the arrival of the first labour migrants in Germany in the 1960s, a gradual change in the perception of migrants in German politics took place: from guests ( Gastarbeiter) and foreigners ( Ausländer) to citizens as members of a new form of ‘us’ that is constructed within diversity. These transformations were reflected in Germany’s migration-related policies throughout recent history. This article focuses on media-related policies for cultur…
Aneignung von Diasporawebsites: Eine medienethnografische Untersuchung in der marokkanischen und türkischen Diaspora
Mediale Migranten
Zum Abschluss dieser Studie stellt sich die Frage, wie sich deren verschiedene Ergebnisse zusammenführen lassen. Was sind die Hauptresultate unserer empirischen Forschung zur kulturellen Identität und kommunikativen Vernetzung in den drei Migrationsgemeinschaften der marokkanischen, russischen und türkischen Diaspora in Deutschland? Welche weiterführenden Folgerungen können daraus gezogen werden? Wirft man diese abschließenden Fragen auf, bietet …
Mediale Migranten: Mediatisierung und Die Kommunikative Vernetzung der Diaspora
Medien und Migration ist ein aktuell heiß diskutiertes Thema. Doch wie wichtig sind Medien für Migrantinnen und Migranten wirklich? Was hat sich mit der Etablierung von Internet, Mobiltelefon und Soci
Bottom-up nationalism and discrimination on social media: An analysis of the citizenship debate about refugees in Turkey
This study analyzes social media representations of refugees in Turkey and discusses their role in shaping public opinion. The influx of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey has created heated debates about their presence and future in the country. One of these debates was triggered by President Erdoğan’s statement that Turkey would issue citizenship rights to Syrians in July 2016. Due to a lack of critical voices about refugee issues in Turkey’…
Managing Diverse Online Networks in the Context of Polarization: Understanding How We Grow Apart on and through Social Media
Social media enable their users to be connected with a diverse group of people increasing their chances of coming across divergent viewpoints. Thus, network diversity is a key issue for understanding the potentials of social media for creating a cross-cutting communication space that is one of the premises of a functioning democracy. This article analyzes the strategies social media users adopt to manage their network diversity in the context of …
Policies of media and cultural integration in Germany: From guestworker programmes to a more integrative framework
After the arrival of the first labour migrants in Germany in the 1960s, a gradual change in the perception of migrants in German politics took place: from guests ( Gastarbeiter) and foreigners ( Ausländer) to citizens as members of a new form of ‘us’ that is constructed within diversity. These transformations were reflected in Germany’s migration-related policies throughout recent history. This article focuses on media-related policies for cultur…
Multilingual media repertoires of young people in the migration society: A plea for a language and culture-aware approach to media education
Digital media provide easy access to media content in multiple languages from local, national, and transnational contexts. This accessibility of diverse content enables young people in the migration society to develop multilingual and transnational media repertoires: they have the option to continuously and strategically navigate between different platforms, between different contexts and multiple languages. In this paper, we discuss how multilin…
Intercultural learning in schools through telecollaboration? A critical case study of eTwinning between Turkey and Germany
Digital media offer various possibilities for internet-based telecollaboration in schools and open up a space for intercultural learning. Diverse initiatives like such as the European Union-initiative eTwinning network aim to support telecollaboration projects in education. This article argues that we need to develop critical and grounded understanding of telecollaboration projects and how they are being embedded in the context of existing school…
Mediale Migranten
Zum Abschluss dieser Studie stellt sich die Frage, wie sich deren verschiedene Ergebnisse zusammenführen lassen. Was sind die Hauptresultate unserer empirischen Forschung zur kulturellen Identität und kommunikativen Vernetzung in den drei Migrationsgemeinschaften der marokkanischen, russischen und türkischen Diaspora in Deutschland? Welche weiterführenden Folgerungen können daraus gezogen werden? Wirft man diese abschließenden Fragen auf, bietet …
Mediale Migranten: Mediatisierung und Die Kommunikative Vernetzung der Diaspora
Medien und Migration ist ein aktuell heiß diskutiertes Thema. Doch wie wichtig sind Medien für Migrantinnen und Migranten wirklich? Was hat sich mit der Etablierung von Internet, Mobiltelefon und Soci
Aneignung von Diasporawebsites: Eine medienethnografische Untersuchung in der marokkanischen und türkischen Diaspora
Ethnicity in digital crossroads. Understanding processes of cultural thickening in a mediatized world
This article discusses existing approaches to ethnic community building in diaspora and suggests that the concept of ‘cultural thickening’ can be useful for the understanding of ethnicity in a ‘mediatized world’. It is argued that in everyday life, ethnicity is continuously being (re-)constructed through repetitive practices of mediated and non-mediated communication, through which ethnic boundary-making takes place. This theoretical framework is…
Policies of media and cultural integration in Germany: From guestworker programmes to a more integrative framework
After the arrival of the first labour migrants in Germany in the 1960s, a gradual change in the perception of migrants in German politics took place: from guests ( Gastarbeiter) and foreigners ( Ausländer) to citizens as members of a new form of ‘us’ that is constructed within diversity. These transformations were reflected in Germany’s migration-related policies throughout recent history. This article focuses on media-related policies for cultur…
Love stories and diasporic identity narratives: Mediatized practices of storytelling in the Moroccan diaspora
Storytelling is one of the oldest ways of giving human experiences a meaning and presenting the world from one’s own perspective. Stories are amongst key cultural resources for identity construction. Throughout the history of technologies, storytelling has become highly mediatized, enabling new and more interactive forms of storytelling. The presented research focuses on digital, diasporic love stories that are shared on an online diasporic discu…
Intercultural learning in schools through telecollaboration? A critical case study of eTwinning between Turkey and Germany
Digital media offer various possibilities for internet-based telecollaboration in schools and open up a space for intercultural learning. Diverse initiatives like such as the European Union-initiative eTwinning network aim to support telecollaboration projects in education. This article argues that we need to develop critical and grounded understanding of telecollaboration projects and how they are being embedded in the context of existing school…
Media–Bridge–Cultures: Exploring mediated cultural encounters
Bottom-up nationalism and discrimination on social media: An analysis of the citizenship debate about refugees in Turkey
This study analyzes social media representations of refugees in Turkey and discusses their role in shaping public opinion. The influx of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey has created heated debates about their presence and future in the country. One of these debates was triggered by President Erdoğan’s statement that Turkey would issue citizenship rights to Syrians in July 2016. Due to a lack of critical voices about refugee issues in Turkey’…
Managing Diverse Online Networks in the Context of Polarization: Understanding How We Grow Apart on and through Social Media
Social media enable their users to be connected with a diverse group of people increasing their chances of coming across divergent viewpoints. Thus, network diversity is a key issue for understanding the potentials of social media for creating a cross-cutting communication space that is one of the premises of a functioning democracy. This article analyzes the strategies social media users adopt to manage their network diversity in the context of …
Inclusive Media Education in the Diverse Classroom: A Participatory Action Research in Germany
Media literacy has become a key concept for understanding how different citizens develop the capacity to participate in the mediatized society. One key question here is how media literacy education can support people of diverse backgrounds to have equal chances of benefiting from the media. Furthermore, as many schools are characterized by superdiversity, especially in bigger cities (Crul et al., 2013), there is also a need for research on media …
Skeptical Inertia in the Face of Polarization: News Consumption and Misinformation in Turkey
Focusing on Turkey, this article analyzes the role of polarization on news users’ perception of misinformation and mistrust in the news on social media. Turkey is one of the countries where citizens complain most about misinformation on the internet. The citizens’ trust in news institutions is also in continuous decline. Furthermore, both Turkish society and its media landscape are politically highly polarized. Focusing on Turkey’s highly polariz…
Disconnectivity in a Changing Media and Political Landscape: A Multi-Contextual and Interdisciplinary Lens
This thematic issue examines disconnectivity in a world where connectivity is often assumed to be the norm. Drawing on multiple areas of research, such as political unfriending, digital disconnection, migration studies, and media censorship, it delves into the complexities of disconnectivity, moving beyond its framing as voluntary choice and individual practice. Collectively, studies in this issue highlight disconnection as a compelled act for se…
Multilingual media repertoires of young people in the migration society: A plea for a language and culture-aware approach to media education
Digital media provide easy access to media content in multiple languages from local, national, and transnational contexts. This accessibility of diverse content enables young people in the migration society to develop multilingual and transnational media repertoires: they have the option to continuously and strategically navigate between different platforms, between different contexts and multiple languages. In this paper, we discuss how multilin…
Understanding young adults’ resilience to disinformation: A cross-national analysis of daily tactics and resources to navigate information
Little is known about how resilience to disinformation develops and manifests in people’s daily lives. Addressing this gap, our study investigates young adults’ tactics for navigating disinformation and the resources they draw from throughout this process. Based on 29 semi-structured interviews with young adults (aged 18–32) in Germany and the Netherlands, we develop a taxonomy of tactics for navigating disinformation. Our comparative analysis re…
So Emotional? The Role of Emotions for Young Adults’ Resilience to Disinformation
The chaotic information environment during (poly)crises, marked by urgency and heightened emotions, complicates truth assessments and provides fertile ground for the proliferation of disinformation. While the role of emotions in shaping disinformation beliefs and sharing is widely acknowledged, there is little empirical evidence on how and under what circumstances emotions impact responses to disinformation. To provide an in-depth understanding, …
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social media (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works)