Assoc. Prof. SERKAN BULUT

Biography

Serkan Bulut graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Journalism, 2011. He completed his master's and doctorate education at Istanbul University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Journalism. Between 2013 and 2018, Bulut worked as a research assistant at Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Journalism. Between March and July 2018, he conducted his doctoral thesis research at the Faculty of Philology of Wroclaw University in Poland. In 2018, she started working at Çukurova University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Journalism. Beyond his academic studies, Bulut worked as a reporter at Habertürk television news center for a short time. He worked as an economics reporter for the Gazeteport website. For four years, he was in charge of the editorial responsibilities of Istanbul University's newspaper İletim and news agency Ajans University news centers. Between 2014 and 2019, he was a media consultant in the NATO and Turkish Armed Forces exercises.  In 2015, he served as the Press and Media Advisor for the “EURASIAN STAR 2015” exercise organized by the 3rd Corps Command (NRDCT) in Istanbul, in the Boğaziçi 2016 Exercise organized by the 3rd Corps Command in 2016 and in the Yıldız- 2016 Combined / Joint War Game organized in 2016. He received the Coordinator award within the scope of the 9th International TRT Documentary Awards held in 2017. In 2013, he was invited to summer school at the University of Leeds in England with a two-week scholarship and was a guest/participant in an intensive Erasmus project. In 2015, she presented her first paper at the “13th International Symposium on Communication in the Millennium” in East Stroudsburg, USA. He was invited as a photographer at an event at the University of Bucharest and participated in the work there for a week.

In 2021, he was awarded the title of Associate Professor. He is currently working at Çukurova University. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bulut, as a postdoctoral researcher of the 2219 TÜBİTAK Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program, was in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, to carry out a research project on artificial intelligence and news framing at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and carried out studies as a guest researcher for a year. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bulut is a member of the Center for Literary and Intermedia Transitions (CLIC) research group at the Free University of Brussels. 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bulut has been to 18 countries as a researcher and student. Serkan Bulut is the author of “SEO in Digital News Media” and one of the English translation editors of “New Media Old News” and “Key Concepts in Journalism Studies”. He has published over 50 research reviews, book chapters, and papers. Bulut's research interests include digital media and journalism, new technologies and digital opportunities in news media, Google journalism (SEO), journalism and artificial intelligence, data visualization, and YouTube journalism.