Mehmet Ali Icbay
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Mehmet Ali Icbay
@maicbay.bsky.social
Institute for Intercultural Communication at Vienna University of Economics and Business @wuvienna.bsky.social | EMCA | 🇦🇹🇹🇷🇺🇦
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Thank you for this warm and highly engaging book review, Mehmet Ali Icbay. 🧡 maicbay.substack.com/p/migrations...
October 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I have a simple question: How can I avoid feeling disgusted while reading about his ideas? Is it possible to separate his friendship with Epstein from his intellectual work?
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The Cambridge report on academic publishing becomes the latest symptom of academic imperialism—an institutional realization that the traditional mechanisms of control are slipping. The old academic empires sense that they can no longer exploit intellectual labor.

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Academic Imperialism in Publishing and the Cambridge Report on Publishing
Because of my long-standing ethnomethodological research belief that sequentiality matters—that A comes after B and before C, and A’s placement within this sequence defines its meaning—one of the firs...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The Collapse of the Soviet Union, the Decline of the Welfare State in Europe, and the Return of Global Titans
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union, the Decline of the Welfare State in Europe, and the Return of Global Titans
This essay reflects on my impressions of the profound changes that have shaped the modern world since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Have you taught (or currently teaching) Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, or related #EMCA courses at your institution? If so, I’d love to hear from you! Please share your experiences and insights in this survey!

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#ethnomethodology #conversationanalysis
August 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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New on Early View: “Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities” by Mehmet Ali Icbay https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70010 #emca #sssi #ethnomethodology #conversationanalysis #science #community

We have just published New on Early View: "Exploring the EMCA Community:…
New on Early View: “Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities” by Mehmet Ali Icbay https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70010 #emca #sssi #ethnomethodology #conversationanalysis #science #community
We have just published New on Early View: "Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities" by Mehmet Ali Icbay on Early View of Symbolic Interaction.  Members of SSSI can access the article HERE and by clicking the image below. To join SSSI and subscribe to Symbolic Interaction from $35 (£30), please click HERE.
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August 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Our edited book is available to pre-order: Women in Health Management: Global Revolutionaires, a really wonderful collection of work on women who shaped their care contexts. #women #healthcaremanagement
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Women in Health Management: Global Revolutionaries
Writings on health and health management have long been concerned with the great figures that have preserved, protected or extended life. From Hippocrates and Galen to Vesalius, Lister, Mengele, Paste...
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June 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I’m thrilled to share that my latest paper on the #EMCA community has just been published online in Symbolic Interaction! A big thank you to the participants, contributors, and anonymous reviewers for their insights, time, and support throughout the process.

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August 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Delighted to announce our latest paper @mariecasey.bsky.social @maicbay.bsky.social . It’s about public health doctors in Ireland and their reflections on working through the pandemic and the work-related change that followed #DrRetention www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Emerging from the pandemic and reflecting on change: public health doctors in Ireland
This study aimed to generate insights into the working lives of Public Health doctors as they worked through a period of immense change relating to th…
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May 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Losing a Best Friend: Mehmet Serkan Arıkan

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Losing a Best Friend: Mehmet Serkan Arıkan
© This is his last photo that I took when we met in downtown Gaziantep.
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May 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
My latest entry on laughter, death and time.

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Easter Vacation III: Social boundaries in cultures
This is the third entry in my series of observations about my own culture during my Easter vacation in Çanakkale.
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April 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
My latest entry on Substack on building trust.
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Building trust: A must-have skill for business after Trump
Trump, protectionism and business
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April 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
"But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd [fascist] chariot hurrying near."
- To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

Fascism is rising again, similar to the period before WW2: Putin, Orban, Trump, and many more around the world. Scary, worrying times for good, hardworking, law abiding citizens.
March 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Accomplishing lesson ending: bringing lesson to an end, by Mehmet Ali İçbay @maicbay.bsky.social (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Türkiye) doi.org/10.1080/1946... /5.
Accomplishing lesson ending: bringing lesson to an end
This ethnomethodological study examines the dynamics of lesson closure in diverse classroom settings, drawing on the sequential analysis of five video-recorded lessons in history, literature, chemi...
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February 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
If I were to choose a single line to summarize my work in the social sciences, it would be this: "[...] and by paying to the
most commonplace activities of daily life the attention usually accorded extraordinary events, seek to learn about them as phenomena in their own right” (Garfinkel, 1984: 1).
February 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Bitter melon combined with olive oil provides relief for gastroesophageal reflux disease, peptic ulcer, and gastritis. And, kills my arch-enemy: Helicobacter pylori. Drink a spoonful of this mixture for 7 days in the mornings, half an hour before breakfast. And, gone! Thank you nature 🥰
February 5, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Haince katlettiler seni! 24 Ocak 1993, Ankara'da, evinin önünde! Ama fikirlerin, cesaretin, namusun hep bizimle! Bir avuç insan kalsak da hep fikrimizdesin! Ruhun şad olsun cesur kalem!
January 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Winter brings her own beauty 🧣
January 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#EMCA I read this brilliant article by @philipcball.bsky.social as a members' hic-et-nunc achievement:

"The fuzziness in the mechanisms of gene regulation is reflected in an unforeseen casualness in the way many of the molecules involved interact with one another."

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How Life Really Works
Just as I uncovered a new way to understand life, I got news about my own.
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December 25, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Why do some reviewers choose to deliver feedback in an unnecessarily harsh manner? There are countless ways to express criticism constructively and respectfully.
December 17, 2024 at 3:30 PM
#EMCA: When and how did we lose our faith in this brilliant research program and begin prescribing methods by inventing fancy Gramsci-an terms for simple, ordinary social accomplishments?
November 20, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Fall beauty downtown 🍁🍂
November 18, 2024 at 7:40 PM