Dr Tugce Bidav

Sociology, Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI)

Postdoctoral Researcher

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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

Title Role Description Start date End date Amount
Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab Working Group 1 Member 14/09/2022 13/09/2026
YouGaMSI: Assessing the exposure of young people to gambling marketing through sport on the island of Ireland Postdoctoral Researcher 01/09/2022 31/08/2024

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
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
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
2022 Bidav, Tugce (2022) Global Platform, Local Labour: Precarious YouTubing in Ireland and Turkey. [Thesis] [Link]
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Professional Associations

Description Function From / To
Association of Internet Researchers Member 02/07/2020 -
International Communication Association Member 16/10/2023 -
MUSSI Member 01/03/2023 -

Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
15/06/2023 AoIR 2023 Dissertation Award Association of Internet Researchers
01/09/2017 John and Pat Hume Doctoral Fellowship Maynooth University

Committees

Committee Function From / To
Social Research Ethics Sub Committee Member 19/09/2022 - 08/09/2023

Employment

Employer Position From / To
Maynooth University Assistant Lecturer 19/09/2022 - 10/09/2023

Education

Start date Institution Qualification Subject
Maynooth University PhD Media Studies
Maynooth University Professional Certificate in Teaching and Learning Higher Education Teaching and Learning
Koc University MA (Research) Comparative Studies in History and Society
Bogazici University BA Sociology

External Collaborators

Name Role Country
Dr Smith Mehta, University of Groningen Research collaboration Netherlands