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Biography
Ekmel Gecer holds a PhD from Loughborough University in media-politics and journalism studies. After working at the Communication Faculty of Sakarya University for four years (2015-2019), he became a lecturer at the Psychology Department of the University of Health Sciences (2019-2023). He is currently an associate professor of social psychology at Marmara University. Gecer also delivered lectures at psychology departments of Universitaet Dortmund/Institut Für PsyChoLoGie an Der Tu DortMund (Germany), Würzburg University (Germany), Birmingham City University (UK) and Sigmund Freud University (Vienna).
Gecer has
studied theology in Turkey and has an MA
in Religion Psychology. He then decided to pursue postgraduate research
into Communication and Psychology at a UK University while being a regular
contributor to Turkish periodicals and newspapers. He finished his second MA in
New Media, Governance & Democracy
from Leicester University in 2009 with a thesis on "Political Communication and Psychology".
Ekmel Gecer has
explored a broad range of psychology, politics and communication issues,
written dozens of articles in scientific journals and presented papers at
national and international conferences that specialise in cultural psychology,
media and cyber psychology and political communication and psychology. GECER
contributed to many projects mostly related to multiculturalism and psychology.
He is the author of eight books: (1) Media and Popular Culture: Soap Operas, TV
and Society, (2) Understanding Turkish Media: A Democratic
Structure Is Possible? (3) Paradoxal
Defeat of Authenticity: Essays on Communication, Culture and Politics, (4) Social Media and Communication
Psychology: Personality, Polarization and Algorithm, (5)
Handbook of Social Psychology (edited with Meryem SERDAR), (6)
Media, Popular Culture and Psychology (an extended version of Media and
Popular Culture), (7) Psycho-Pathology of Everyday Lives, (8) Intercultural
Communication: A Psychological Perspective.
Contact
- ekmel.gecer@marmara.edu.tr
- Web Page
- https://avesis.marmara.edu.tr/14982
- Office Phone
- +90 216 777 3214
- Office
- C325
- Address
- Marmara Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi Göztepe Kampüsü 34722 Kadıköy/İSTANBUL