Dept. of Communication and Design - Master's degree: Recent submissions
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Authorship in video game adaptations
(Bilkent University, 2021-08)The purpose of this thesis is to examine how authorship of video game adaptations is handled as a discursive concept. Auteur theory was created and analyzed as a critical method in the film medium. The thesis researches ... -
An ecocritical analysis of human–others and nature–others in popular animated fantasy series
(Bilkent University, 2021-09)This thesis examines the representations of human-Others and nature-Others in popular animated fantasy series from an ecocritical perspective, and with an ecofeminist approach. The five animated series this thesis investigates, ... -
How and on what basis do parents decide on their children's media content and screen time, and what style of parental mediatıon do they prefer to follow?
(Bilkent University, 2021-09)The age at which children meet technology and the digital world now begins much earlier than before, and the amount of media content and time they consume is usually determined by their parents. Especially when today’s ... -
Bodies in transfiguration: ontological in-betweenness in the Weimar aesthetics
(Bilkent University, 2021-05)This thesis examines the processes of bodily transformation in the Weimar aesthetics embarking on an eclectic philosophy. For this aim, it explores the artworks of Max Ernst, Heinrich Hoerle, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, ... -
Representations of Syrian refugees in Turkish news media: content analysis of oppositional newspapers
(Bilkent University, 2021-06)This thesis examines the representations of Syrian refugees in online news articles broadcasted by Turkish oppositional newspapers from different ideological and political orientations. The three oppositional media outlets, ... -
Critical reception of contemporary biblical film adaptations
(Bilkent University, 2020-12)In this thesis, the reception of biblical adaptations is analyzed. By using reception studies, critical discourse analysis and close reading methods; The Passion of the Christ (2004), Mary Magdalene (2018), Noah (2014), ... -
Setting the record straight: a comparative analysis of Google’s organizational identity communication versus the media’s portrayal
(Bilkent University, 2020-09)This thesis focuses on how Google uses organizational communication strategies to introduce its organizational identity, products and services in comparison to how mainstream media outlets such as the New York Times and ... -
Individual to societal figures: construction of celebrity identity in Turkish media
(Bilkent University, 2020-08)Celebrated individuals are everywhere in the consumerist societies in which technology is developing rapidly, and their impact as social phenomenona on the societies, media, and consuming habits is significant. Although ... -
Gesturing toward utopia: queer time and place in the performance Art of Cassils, boychild and Marval A Rex
(Bilkent University, 2020-08)This thesis examines queer body/performance art concentrating on the concepts of time and space. Prioritizing the approach of queer theory to the perception of time and space, the performances of Cassils, boychild and ... -
Lignum Vitae: an interactive organism design of cyberspace and sonic arts
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)This thesis aims to investigate the nature of artworks created in the scope of cyberspace and sonic art in analysis of the case artwork Lignum Vitae, a multimedia artwork designed to be conducted in gallery space through ... -
Posthumanizing the eye: creating distributed gaze through machine art
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)This thesis explores the adaptation of distributed cognition theory to the concept of distributed gaze between the artwork and the viewer, through machine art. This mechanical mixed media eye sculpture displays the probability ... -
Intertextuality in Turkish TV advertising: an analysis of popular song usage
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)Brands have started to use popular songs in their advertisements. Especially in Turkey, different types of usage in terms of changing lyrics of a song with the brand motto, cover versions, just the background music or ... -
Analyzing motivation and experience of visitors: a case study of Cermodern Art Center
(Bilkent University, 2020-07)This study focuses on the motivation and experience of visitors in CerModern Art Center, located in Ankara Turkey. The main concern is to understand which state motivates people to visit the Center, and what they ... -
1-GO 1-E: the development of durational aesthetics in mixed media sculpture
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)This thesis investigates the development of a technique for the depiction of motion in painting through mixed media sculpture. Utilizing stacked glass layers as the spatial medium, 1-Go 1-E conceptualizes the technique ... -
Monitor: re-imagining the clock tower an artist research on form, chain reaction and duration
(Bilkent University, 2020-06)Monitor is a re-imagination of a clock tower, which re-conceptualizes the passing of time in a way that all moving elements inside the city outdoors become the units of the timekeeping activity. Abandoning the conventional ... -
The artistic afterlife of electronic waste
(Bilkent University, 2019-12)This thesis aims to take a closer look at artistic projects that use discarded electronic parts as preferred medium. Electronic waste cumulates as the result of a highly technological era. The artworks that take part ... -
Immersed into constant change: usage of generative systems in immersive & interactive installation art
(Bilkent University, 2019-12)This thesis aims to investigate the immersive & interactive installations in terms of bodily experience and cybernetic identity. By touching upon the recent discussions on the generative system design and relational ... -
Coherence between narrative and montage: diversified becomings in Reha Erdem’s cinema
(Bilkent University, 2019-11)This thesis aims to demonstrate the coherence between narrative and montage in Reha Erdem’s cinema in dialogue with Deleuzian philosophy and cinema theory, and it analyzes the parallels and divergences between Erdem’s ... -
Film score and contemporary nostalgia: on the collaboration between Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Film scores in certain contemporary films which narrate stories from different time periods display intriguing patterns in how they evoke distinct emotions and how they underscore the film’s temporal and spatial ... -
At first sight: creating an alternate reality game with transmedia experience
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)When images come together, the viewer starts to read a story according to their own perceptions. The actual motivation of the storyteller is to let the viewer create a story based on their own ongoing biases, then to ...
