Dr Tugce Bidav
Biography
Dr Tugce Bidav is a Postdoctoral Researcher based in the Department of Sociology and is a member of the Maynooth Social Sciences Research Institute (MUSSI) at Maynooth University (MU). Tugce is working on the HEA/North/South Research funded project YouGAMSI (with Prof. Aphra Kerr & Prof. John O'Brennan, MU and Dr. Paul Kitchin, UU). This project aims to assess the exposure of young people to gambling marketing through sport across broadcast and social media on the island of Ireland. Prior to this role, she was an Assistant Lecturer in Department of Media Studies at MU wherein she taught across the BA in Media Studies and the MA in Critical and Creative Media on subjects such as media and cultural theory, media and gender, and media publics. She holds a PhD in Media Studies (2023) from Maynooth University. Her dissertation received the Association of Internet Researchers 2023 Dissertation Award for its significant contributions to the field of internet research, addressing the theme of digital labour through the lens of marginalised cases, and with innovative mixed methods approach that spans multiple disciplines. Her research focuses on platformed cultural production, creator cultures, and digital labour. She explores how creative digital labour practices of social media content creators are localised depending on geographic specificities of media production in Ireland and Turkey.
She can be found on Twitter, LinkedIn, and ResearchGate.
Research Projects
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2024 | Tugce Bidav; Smith Mehta (2024) 'Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey'. Social Media + Society, 10 (1). [Link] https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241234693 [Full-Text] | |
2019 | Goksoy, Seckin; Bidav, Tugce (2019) 'Staging Disagreement and Its Ethics: A Rancièrian Approach to Lanthimos’ Dogtooth'. Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, 11 :42-60. [Link] [Full-Text] |
Conference Contribution
Year | Publication | |
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2023 | Bidav, Tugce; Mehta, Smith (2023) Peripheral Creator Cultures: Perspectives from India, Ireland, and Turkey Contested Visibilities: Everyday Politics and online imaginaries of the Body Lisbon, 06/09/2023-08/09/2023. | |
2023 | Bidav, Tugce (2023) Researching Platformed Cultural Production in Local YouTube Scenes Global Perspectives on Platforms, Labor & Social Reproduction Amsterdam, 27/06/2023-28/06/2023. | |
2023 | Bidav, Tugce (2023) Making a Media Career on and beyond YouTube: Diversity in Professional Identities of YouTube Creators The 23rd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Dublin, 02/11/2022-05/11/2022. [Link] https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2022i0.12976 | |
2022 | Bidav, Tugce (2022) Global Platform, Local Labour: Precarious YouTubing in Ireland and Turkey Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production Amsterdam, 01/06/2022-02/06/2022. |
Thesis
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Bidav, Tugce (2022) Global Platform, Local Labour: Precarious YouTubing in Ireland and Turkey. [Thesis] [Link] |