Zeynep Gultekin Akcay

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep GULTEKIN AKCAY completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Radio, Television and Cinema at Gazi University in Ankara and her PhD in Journalism at the same university. In 2016, she visited Malmö University with the Erasmus exchange program. 

She is currently working at Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema. Her main research interests are: sociology of television, media and children, popular culture and media, gender and media. 

She is currently working on the project titled “Remembering the Cinema Experience of 1950s to 1970s in Sivas”. At the FMSP of Goethe University Frankfurt, she will research the cinema experiences in the cultural memory of Sivas people living in Germany. In her previous research ‘Child games hybridized with the television screen’ she studied how traditional children’s games are hybridized through television.