Çiğdem Bozdağ

Çiğdem Bozdağ is a researcher in the field of communications and media studies. She was an Assistant Professor for Communication and Media Studies at Kadir Has University, Istanbul.

Bozdağ’s research project for her Mercator-IPC Fellowship is titled “Intercultural Networking in Education through Information and Communication Technologies: Turkish Schools Meet Germany.”

Bozdağ completed her PhD at the University of Bremen in January 2013. In her thesis, she analyzed the websites of the Moroccan and Turkish diaspora and their role in ethnic community building within a mediated emerging social space. During her doctoral studies, she worked as a lecturer at the University of Bremen. From 2008 to 2010, she worked at the same university as a Research Assistant in the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG)-funded research project “Communicative Connectivity of Ethnic Minorities: The Integrative and Segregative Potential of Digital Media for Diasporas.” Moreover, she worked on an EU-funded research project titled “ICT and Cultural Diversity: The Potential of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for the Promotion of Cultural Diversity in the EU.”

Bozdağ’s main research fields are intercultural communication, globalization, new media, and migration studies. She has been teaching courses on similar topics at the University of Bremen and at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. Bozdağ received her MA from the University of Bremen in Media Culture and her BA is from Boğaziçi University in Political Science and International Relations.