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  1. From Broadcast to Platform Power

    Article • November 2026, IGI Global

    Dr. Murat Akser

  2. Rodney Benson, Mattias Hessérus, Timothy Neff, and Julie Sedel,<b> </b><i>How Media Ownership Matters</i>

    Article • International Journal of Communication, January 2026, USC Annenberg Press

    Dr. Murat Akser

  3. Finding Leadership in Media Education

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, December 2024, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  4. Cem Yılmaz, Telecinematic Genre Revival and Ideology of the Turkish Film Remakes

    Article • December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Murat Akser

  5. Fragments of Repression and Resistance

    Article • November 2024, Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers

    Dr. Murat Akser

  6. Media Systems and Media Capture in Turkey: A Case Study

    Article • Media and Communication, April 2024, Cogitatio

    Dr. Murat Akser

  7. On land, memory, and masculinity: unearthing silences around myths of Gallipoli in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree)

    Article • New Perspectives on Turkey, July 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Murat Akser

  8. Examinations and Analysis of Sequels and Serials in the Film Industry

    Article • June 2023, IGI Global

    Dr. Murat Akser

  9. Contemporary Balkan cinema: transnational exchanges and global circuits

    Article • New Review of Film and Television Studies, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Murat Akser

  10. Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear

    Article • Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Murat Akser

  11. Turkish online film distribution: Fighting for Indie filmmaking in a neoliberal and censored context

    Article • January 2022, Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr. Murat Akser

  12. Digital Contention in a Divided Society: Social Media, Parades and Protests in Northern Ireland

    Article • Journal of Communication, September 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Murat Akser

  13. Books Received 2021

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, July 2021, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  14. Diversity and Inclusion in Film, Television and Media Sector: Policy Alternatives for an Inclusive Film Industry and Training

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, July 2021, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  15. Books Received 2020

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, December 2020, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  16. Cinema, Life and Other Viruses: The Future of Filmmaking, Film Education and Film Studies in the Age of Covid-19 Pandemic

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, December 2020, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  17. Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory

    Article • Canadian Journal of Film Studies, December 2020, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Dr. Murat Akser

  18. Turkish media structure in judicial and political context

    Article • October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Murat Akser

  19. Book review: Mainstreaming the Headscarf: Islamist Politics and Women in the Turkish Media

    Article • European Journal of Communication, August 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Murat Akser

  20. Books received

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, March 2020, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  21. Remembering Thomas Elsaesser and Peter Wollen

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, March 2020, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  22. Books Recevied 2018-19

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, September 2019, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  23. Editorial

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, September 2019, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  24. Four Women in the Harem (1965) by Halit Refiğ: The Construction of “National Cinema” in Turkey

    Article • Journal of Film and Video, January 2019, University of Illinois Press

    Dr. Murat Akser

  25. Role of Islam in telling Women's stories in Turkish Cinema

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, December 2018, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  26. News Media Consolidation and Censorship in Turkey

    Article • Mediterranean Quarterly, September 2018, Duke University Press

    Dr. Murat Akser

  27. Media and Politics in Turkey

    Article • Middle East Critique, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Murat Akser

  28. Locating Turkish Cinema Between Populist Tendencies and Art Cinema

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Murat Akser

  29. The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Murat Akser

  30. Ethnicity in contemporary European media and cinema

    Article • Cultural Studies, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Murat Akser

  31. For Those Who Seek Mastery and Personality, by Halit Refiğ

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, September 2017, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  32. Books received

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, September 2017, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  33. Book review: Aesthetics of Displacement: Turkey and its Minorities on ScreenKoksalOzlemAesthetics of Displacement: Turkey and its Minorities on Screen. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. 248 pp. $120

    Article • Memory Studies, April 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Murat Akser

  34. A Theory of National Cinema in Turkey

    Article • Film Studies, April 2017, Manchester University Press

    Dr. Murat Akser

  35. Turkish Cinema

    Article • February 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Murat Akser

  36. SceneMaker: Creative Technology for Digital StoryTelling

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Murat Akser, Dr Tom Maguire, Dr Kevin Curran

  37. 8. Turkish Independent Cinema: Between Bourgeois Auteurism and Political Radicalism

    Article • December 2015, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Dr. Murat Akser

  38. 51st International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (2015)

    Article • Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media, October 2015, University College Cork

    Dr. Murat Akser

  39. Social movements and their technologies: Wiring social changeMilanStefania, Social movements and their technologies: Wiring social change. Palgrave Macmillan: London, 2013; xiii + 233 pp.: ISBN-10: 0230309180, $90.00 (hbk)

    Article • New Media & Society, July 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Murat Akser

  40. New Media and Film Festivals in the Middle East

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, July 2015, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  41. Technology and the Turkish Mind: Internet Animation as Counter Culture in Turkey

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, October 2014, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  42. Auteur and Style in National Cinema: A Reframing of Metin Erksan's Time To Love

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, April 2014, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  43. The Impacts of Tablet Use for Eliminating the Time-Space Barriers in University Education: A Turkish Experience

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Murat Akser

  44. Women and Turkish Cinema

    Article • Historical Journal Of Film Radio and Television, December 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Murat Akser

  45. Nation, Genre and Female Performance in Canadian Cinema

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, June 2013, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  46. Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival

    Article • NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, January 2013, Amsterdam University Press

    Dr. Murat Akser

  47. Memory, Identity and Desire: A Psychoanalytic Reading of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, December 2012, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  48. Return to Reality: Towards A More Tactile Cognition of Film Theory

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, April 2012, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  49. Media and Democracy in Turkey

    Article • Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, January 2012, Brill

    Dr. Murat Akser

  50. Reinvigorating Film Studies: An Immodest Proposal

    Article • CINEJ Cinema Journal, August 2011, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Dr. Murat Akser

  51. The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieslowski Between Theory and Post-Theory Slavoj ŽižekThe Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieslowski Between Theory and Post-Theory Slavoj Žižek London: British Film Institute, 2001, 240 pp.

    Article • Canadian Journal of Film Studies, March 2002, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Dr. Murat Akser

  52. Cassavetes, John (1929--1989)

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Murat Akser