Assoc.Prof. (PhD) Gizem Melek
Faculty of Communication / Dept. of Radio, Television and Cinema
Short CV
Gizem Melek is currently an associate professor of the Dept. of Radio Television and Cinema at Yaşar University and chair of the Women’s Network at ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association). Her main academic research areas focus on the interplay between media and politics, mainly in the areas of journalism, media effects, political communication and climate change communication. She has published academic articles in numerous books and top-tier peer-reviewed journals including, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, Visual Studies, and Visual Communication. She was the principal investigator of a recently completed TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye) funded research project on agenda-setting and the role of journalism on public opinion at the cognitive levels. In addition to her academic work, she is an experienced journalist who worked both in Türkiye and in the UK for 6 years. She worked as a correspondent for a news magazine, Izmir Life, for 2 years, and then for NTV, for more than 3 years. Later, she worked at the ITV’s London TV Centre with famous British TV personality Melvyn Bragg at the Specialist Factual & Arts Department which was producing the award winning “The South Bank Show”. Afterwards, she worked at the British Museum’s Broadcast Unit. Her duties involved assisting the production processes of the documentary series, “A History of the World in One Hundred Objects” in partnership with the BBC.- Phone 0232-570 8445