PostGraduate Researcher

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E. Hazal Tanrisever grew up and finished her education in Istanbul, a city tradition alive yet very modern and cosmopolitan. Curiosity drove her to participate in an exchange program sponsored by AFS for a year in Messina, Italy, during her high school education. She received her bachelor's degree in "Management of Performing Arts" from Istanbul Bilgi University, an interdisciplinary program that allows students to examine cultural structures and policies in both regional and international dimensions within their social, economic, and political frameworks. She was very interested in media, arts, and cultural activities, and she also worked as a producer at the University's own television production unit. After several years of hard work as a producer at the university's television production unit, she was hired by Funes Media Company during her studies and became an assistant producer for documentaries sold to companies such as TRT and AL Jazeera.

She began working for Istanbul Kadköy Municipality as a Project Coordinator in several different directorates after graduating successfully. Her main focus area was cultural structures and policies and developing creative approaches to cultural infrastructure and its institutions and coordinating implementing research and development projects of Kadıköy Municipality. After three years of public service, she began her master's degree at the University of Bern in the specialised and highly selective CREOLE program "Social Anthropology: Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes", during which she is spending one year of exchange at the University of Vienna. Her primary research interests are in mass communication and digital media with a special emphasis on how media are produced or modified for usage by specific communities, especially women.