İçten Duygu Özbek is Professor and Head of the Department of Advertising at Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Communication, in Aydın, Turkey. Her academic interest areas are international and intercultural communication, advertising, creativity in advertising, storytelling and ethnic marketing..
Özbek graduated in Communication from Anadolu University, then earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Advertising at Ege University. She completed her Ph.D. in 2012 with a thesis entitled The relationship between migration and culture in terms of international advertising: Analyzing the advertisements which target Turkish immigrants.
After working at Yaşar University for eight years, she joined Department of PR and Advertising at Aydın Adnan Menderes University in 2014 as an Assistant Professor, rising to Associate Professor in 2017, Professor in 2023, and now serving as Head of the Department of Advertising.
Özbek, İ. D., & Toker, H. (2021). The representation of Other in Turkish television advertisements. Galactica Media Journal of Media Studies, 3(4), 139-162.
Özbek, İ. D. (2021). Ethnic advertising. In E. Erdoğan & N. Akbulut (Eds.), The evolution of advertising (pp. 341-367). Ankara, Turkey: Gazi Kitabevi, ISBN: 978-625-8494-14-3.
Çallı, İ. D. (2019). Re-weaving the cultural fabric with advertisements: An analysis of television advertisements for Turkish immigrants. In A.İ. Tuncer & P. E. Aytekin (Eds.), İletişim Çalışmalarında Kavramsal Yönelimler [Conceptual intentions in communication studies] (pp. 115-160). Konya, Turkey: Literatürk Academia, ISBN: 978-605-337-203-5.
Çallı, İ. D., & Yetimova, S. (2019). Renault in different cultures: A study of TV commercials in the context of intercultural communication. In M. Aslan (Ed.), İnterdisipliner Bir Bakışla İletişim Üzerine İncelemeler [Studies on communication with an interdisciplinary perspective] (pp. 65-87). Konya, Turkey: Literatürk Academia, ISBN: 978-605-337-199-1.
Çallı, İ. D. (2016). International and cross-cultural communication. In B. Kılınç & U. Eriş (Eds.), İletişim Bilgisi [Communication] (pp. 164-182). Eskişehir, Turkey: Anadolu Üniversitesi Yayınları, ISBN: 978-975-06-1917-5.
Çallı, İ. D. (2014). Using halal concept in ethnic marketing: An analysis on food commercials broadcasted in Germany. Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences, 14(4), 43-56. ISSN 1303-0876.
Çallı, İ. D. (2013). Speaking the same language: Turkish emigrants’ attitudes towards Turkish television advertising in Germany. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 3(17), 267-276, ISSN 2220-8488.
Sharp, B. (2021). Global marketing (İ. D. Özbek, Trans.) In A. A. Bir (Ed.), Marketing: Theory, evidence, practice (pp. 602-635). İstanbul, Turkey: The Kitap Yayınları, ISBN 978-625-7816-22-9.
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İçten Duygu Özbek has translated KC19: Multiculturalism, KC39: Otherness and the Other(s), and KC55: Stereotypes into Turkish.
Brahim earned a Ph.D. in Education under the Language, Literacy and Culture concentration at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst College of Education, and has M.A.s in Education and Teaching French. He received his B.A. in English Language and Literature, along with Arabic and French teaching certificates, in Morocco. In addition to language courses, he teaches Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology and Introduction to Arab Cultures.
Jinhyun specializes in translation and interpreting and sociolinguistics with a focus on gender, intercultural communication, and language ideologies. Jinhyun’s research brings together interpreting and sociolinguistics to examine hitherto taken-for-granted cultural and linguistic phenomena through the unique prism of interpreters as social agents. By focusing on a shift in understanding away from the traditional mechanical view of interpreters as “translation machines” to a perspective which sees interpreters as social actors, she has been able to capture significant insights into the dynamics of dominant ideologies and societal power structures and their influences on linguistic and cultural practices in diverse socio-historical contexts.
She is currently the chair of the Game Studies division for the International Communication Association and an associate editor for the Journal of Media Psychology. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and Journal of Information Society.
His current research is focused on public creativity and inclusive cultural dialogue in modern-day Belarus. He employs Ethnography of Communication and Cultural Discourse Analysis to investigate how public creativity is related to social change and cultural transformation. His analysis focuses on identity, cultural rituals, and social mythology as reflected in everyday communication.
Martin specializes in Multilingualism and Foreign Language Learning Difficulties. She teaches Italian Language and Culture to Intercultural Management bachelor students. She works and conducts research in the field of societal change, multilingualism and interculturalism. Her field of expertise lies in promoting multilingualism in education and in society. She supports and assists families who move around the world for different reasons and raise their children with more than one language.
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