EMRE KIZILKAYA
@emrekizilkaya.bsky.social
Ph.D. in Media & Communication | '24-'25 Carr-Ryan Center Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School | Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow '19 | IVLP Alumnus | IBM Certified AI Developer https://www.linkedin.com/in/emre-kizilkaya #Media #Humanities #AI #Data #Ethics
RAM sticks I bought for $160 last year are now listed at $629. It’s unbelievable that cartel-like price-fixing by companies like #Nvidia and #Micron is now treated as normal, 20 years after the DRAM #antitrust cases. They’re gutting the consumer market to feed #AI data centers. The EU needs to act.
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
RAM sticks I bought for $160 last year are now listed at $629. It’s unbelievable that cartel-like price-fixing by companies like #Nvidia and #Micron is now treated as normal, 20 years after the DRAM #antitrust cases. They’re gutting the consumer market to feed #AI data centers. The EU needs to act.
I wrote a discussion paper for @harvard-carr-ryan.bsky.social as part of our #Technology and #HumanRights fellowship on #SurveillanceCapitalism.
It examines how authoritarian states and #BigTech create a system of "dual domination" in fragile democracies: www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
It examines how authoritarian states and #BigTech create a system of "dual domination" in fragile democracies: www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I wrote a discussion paper for @harvard-carr-ryan.bsky.social as part of our #Technology and #HumanRights fellowship on #SurveillanceCapitalism.
It examines how authoritarian states and #BigTech create a system of "dual domination" in fragile democracies: www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
It examines how authoritarian states and #BigTech create a system of "dual domination" in fragile democracies: www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...
4️⃣ Why this matters:
🔹 Planners: Reveals stratified accessibility.
🔹 Tech firms: Shows need for more inclusive, serendipity-driven maps.
🔹 Universities: Helps understand international student mobility & belonging.
🔹 Planners: Reveals stratified accessibility.
🔹 Tech firms: Shows need for more inclusive, serendipity-driven maps.
🔹 Universities: Helps understand international student mobility & belonging.
November 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
4️⃣ Why this matters:
🔹 Planners: Reveals stratified accessibility.
🔹 Tech firms: Shows need for more inclusive, serendipity-driven maps.
🔹 Universities: Helps understand international student mobility & belonging.
🔹 Planners: Reveals stratified accessibility.
🔹 Tech firms: Shows need for more inclusive, serendipity-driven maps.
🔹 Universities: Helps understand international student mobility & belonging.
3️⃣ Key findings:
💡 Algorithmic Urbanism – Navigation apps reinforce centrality, making peripheries digitally invisible.
💡 Mobility Bubble – Metro networks compress the city into a 50 km² triangle of accessibility.
💡 Bosphorus = Super-Element – The city’s key symbolic and orientational anchor.
💡 Algorithmic Urbanism – Navigation apps reinforce centrality, making peripheries digitally invisible.
💡 Mobility Bubble – Metro networks compress the city into a 50 km² triangle of accessibility.
💡 Bosphorus = Super-Element – The city’s key symbolic and orientational anchor.
November 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
3️⃣ Key findings:
💡 Algorithmic Urbanism – Navigation apps reinforce centrality, making peripheries digitally invisible.
💡 Mobility Bubble – Metro networks compress the city into a 50 km² triangle of accessibility.
💡 Bosphorus = Super-Element – The city’s key symbolic and orientational anchor.
💡 Algorithmic Urbanism – Navigation apps reinforce centrality, making peripheries digitally invisible.
💡 Mobility Bubble – Metro networks compress the city into a 50 km² triangle of accessibility.
💡 Bosphorus = Super-Element – The city’s key symbolic and orientational anchor.
2️⃣ We analyzed:
• 265M transit journeys
• Surveys with 208 international students
• Gamified digital diaries and walk & talk sessions
• 265M transit journeys
• Surveys with 208 international students
• Gamified digital diaries and walk & talk sessions
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
2️⃣ We analyzed:
• 265M transit journeys
• Surveys with 208 international students
• Gamified digital diaries and walk & talk sessions
• 265M transit journeys
• Surveys with 208 international students
• Gamified digital diaries and walk & talk sessions
1️⃣ Our new paper “𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫-𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭” is out in 𝘔𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴! 🚀
A 2-year mixed-method study on how locative algorithms and transit systems shape how international students see and move through Istanbul.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QBQ8I...
#UrbanStudies #BigData #Istanbul #Lynch #Lefebvre
A 2-year mixed-method study on how locative algorithms and transit systems shape how international students see and move through Istanbul.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QBQ8I...
#UrbanStudies #BigData #Istanbul #Lynch #Lefebvre
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
1️⃣ Our new paper “𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫-𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭” is out in 𝘔𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴! 🚀
A 2-year mixed-method study on how locative algorithms and transit systems shape how international students see and move through Istanbul.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QBQ8I...
#UrbanStudies #BigData #Istanbul #Lynch #Lefebvre
A 2-year mixed-method study on how locative algorithms and transit systems shape how international students see and move through Istanbul.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QBQ8I...
#UrbanStudies #BigData #Istanbul #Lynch #Lefebvre
We had a great discussion with @courtneyr.bsky.social on "Big Tech + Big Brother: Resisting ‘techno-fascism’ and the surveillance state" at the @globalfreemedia.bsky.social World Congress & Media Innovation Festival in Vienna on October 25.
Credit © Ronja Koskinen / IPI
Credit © Ronja Koskinen / IPI
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We had a great discussion with @courtneyr.bsky.social on "Big Tech + Big Brother: Resisting ‘techno-fascism’ and the surveillance state" at the @globalfreemedia.bsky.social World Congress & Media Innovation Festival in Vienna on October 25.
Credit © Ronja Koskinen / IPI
Credit © Ronja Koskinen / IPI
Thousands gathered in Tel Aviv last night to mark 30 years since the assassination of Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin. Valerie Hamaty performed Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah in Arabic as tens of thousands listened in awe. Leaders like #Rabin are deeply missed in today’s divided world. #Peace #Gaza #Democracy
November 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Thousands gathered in Tel Aviv last night to mark 30 years since the assassination of Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin. Valerie Hamaty performed Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah in Arabic as tens of thousands listened in awe. Leaders like #Rabin are deeply missed in today’s divided world. #Peace #Gaza #Democracy
Yesterday in #Vienna's Auer Welsbach Park, an oak tree full of animals reminded me of Rumi's parable of the caged parrot. He longed for his free friends in India, imagining them able to fly to the grass or sit on the trees as they wish. That ability to #choose, for him, was #freedom.
October 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I'll be in Vienna next week for the 2025 @globalfreemedia.bsky.social World Congress & #Media #Innovation Festival.
Join our panel with Courtney Radsch, "Big Tech + Big Brother: Resisting ‘techno-fascism’ and the surveillance state", on Oct. 25 at 12:00 CEST.
ipi.media/ipi-world-co... #IPIWoCo25
Join our panel with Courtney Radsch, "Big Tech + Big Brother: Resisting ‘techno-fascism’ and the surveillance state", on Oct. 25 at 12:00 CEST.
ipi.media/ipi-world-co... #IPIWoCo25
October 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I'll be in Vienna next week for the 2025 @globalfreemedia.bsky.social World Congress & #Media #Innovation Festival.
Join our panel with Courtney Radsch, "Big Tech + Big Brother: Resisting ‘techno-fascism’ and the surveillance state", on Oct. 25 at 12:00 CEST.
ipi.media/ipi-world-co... #IPIWoCo25
Join our panel with Courtney Radsch, "Big Tech + Big Brother: Resisting ‘techno-fascism’ and the surveillance state", on Oct. 25 at 12:00 CEST.
ipi.media/ipi-world-co... #IPIWoCo25
We were in Spain last week for the 2025 Open Government Partnership Global Summit. With Oliver Money-Kyrle and Emre Ilkan Saklica, we contributed to sessions on civic participation in line with @globalfreemedia.bsky.social 's
mission to promote open, accountable governance across Europe. #OGP2025
mission to promote open, accountable governance across Europe. #OGP2025
October 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
We were in Spain last week for the 2025 Open Government Partnership Global Summit. With Oliver Money-Kyrle and Emre Ilkan Saklica, we contributed to sessions on civic participation in line with @globalfreemedia.bsky.social 's
mission to promote open, accountable governance across Europe. #OGP2025
mission to promote open, accountable governance across Europe. #OGP2025
I stumbled upon this on the interwebs today:
September 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I stumbled upon this on the interwebs today:
I'm honored to share that my Ph.D. thesis, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑙𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑉𝑒𝑖𝑙: 𝐴𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡, 𝐴𝐼 𝐵𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛-𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑅𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔, has been accepted.
My deepest gratitude goes to all my mentors, including my advisor Professor Kerem Rizvanoglu. I’ll share more about the findings soon.
My deepest gratitude goes to all my mentors, including my advisor Professor Kerem Rizvanoglu. I’ll share more about the findings soon.
September 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I'm honored to share that my Ph.D. thesis, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑙𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑉𝑒𝑖𝑙: 𝐴𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡, 𝐴𝐼 𝐵𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛-𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑅𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔, has been accepted.
My deepest gratitude goes to all my mentors, including my advisor Professor Kerem Rizvanoglu. I’ll share more about the findings soon.
My deepest gratitude goes to all my mentors, including my advisor Professor Kerem Rizvanoglu. I’ll share more about the findings soon.
"I've been under arrest for three months, stripped of my freedom because, as a communications professional, I managed election campaigns. Let me be clear: Winning an election is not a crime. There is no such offense in Turkish law," says Necati Ozkan, an aide to the jailed Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu.
June 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"I've been under arrest for three months, stripped of my freedom because, as a communications professional, I managed election campaigns. Let me be clear: Winning an election is not a crime. There is no such offense in Turkish law," says Necati Ozkan, an aide to the jailed Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu.
Research suggests the similarity between large language model and human responses declines for typical cognitive tasks as you move away from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies.
More in this 2023 paper from Harvard biologists: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
More in this 2023 paper from Harvard biologists: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
May 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Research suggests the similarity between large language model and human responses declines for typical cognitive tasks as you move away from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies.
More in this 2023 paper from Harvard biologists: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
More in this 2023 paper from Harvard biologists: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
I contributed to "Trump 100 Days," a discussion paper series by the @harvard-carr-ryan.bsky.social that examines the early trajectory of his second presidency.
Read the full report, with contributions from Harvard faculty, fellows, and affiliates: www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
Read the full report, with contributions from Harvard faculty, fellows, and affiliates: www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
May 2, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I contributed to "Trump 100 Days," a discussion paper series by the @harvard-carr-ryan.bsky.social that examines the early trajectory of his second presidency.
Read the full report, with contributions from Harvard faculty, fellows, and affiliates: www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
Read the full report, with contributions from Harvard faculty, fellows, and affiliates: www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
“It is difficult to understand what could be meant by the objective character of an #experience, apart from the particular point of view from which its subject apprehends it.” — Thomas Nagel
April 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“It is difficult to understand what could be meant by the objective character of an #experience, apart from the particular point of view from which its subject apprehends it.” — Thomas Nagel
Aaron Swartz faced prison and tragically died for trying to free academic #knowledge.
Yet #BigTech like Meta, Google & OpenAI scrape copyrighted data & books for profit with near impunity today.
Our #justice system protects corporate data grabs while crushing individuals who champion #OpenAccess
Yet #BigTech like Meta, Google & OpenAI scrape copyrighted data & books for profit with near impunity today.
Our #justice system protects corporate data grabs while crushing individuals who champion #OpenAccess
April 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Aaron Swartz faced prison and tragically died for trying to free academic #knowledge.
Yet #BigTech like Meta, Google & OpenAI scrape copyrighted data & books for profit with near impunity today.
Our #justice system protects corporate data grabs while crushing individuals who champion #OpenAccess
Yet #BigTech like Meta, Google & OpenAI scrape copyrighted data & books for profit with near impunity today.
Our #justice system protects corporate data grabs while crushing individuals who champion #OpenAccess
While President Erdogan pardoned convicted criminals, including two Hizbullah militants yesterday, more than 300 university students remain in Turkish prisons for no crime other than claiming their constitutional rights to peaceful demonstration.
#FreeTurkishStudents #Turkey #Democracy
#FreeTurkishStudents #Turkey #Democracy
March 31, 2025 at 11:33 AM
While President Erdogan pardoned convicted criminals, including two Hizbullah militants yesterday, more than 300 university students remain in Turkish prisons for no crime other than claiming their constitutional rights to peaceful demonstration.
#FreeTurkishStudents #Turkey #Democracy
#FreeTurkishStudents #Turkey #Democracy
Pro-democracy youth danced in Ankara two nights ago. Yesterday, the government arrested hundreds of peaceful demonstrators.
This is not a fight for life or death. This is life fighting death.
"For there is a rule and an exception. The exception is the art of living. The rule seeks its death."
This is not a fight for life or death. This is life fighting death.
"For there is a rule and an exception. The exception is the art of living. The rule seeks its death."
March 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Pro-democracy youth danced in Ankara two nights ago. Yesterday, the government arrested hundreds of peaceful demonstrators.
This is not a fight for life or death. This is life fighting death.
"For there is a rule and an exception. The exception is the art of living. The rule seeks its death."
This is not a fight for life or death. This is life fighting death.
"For there is a rule and an exception. The exception is the art of living. The rule seeks its death."
🔍 I built an 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧-𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥 in just a few hours on a Sunday morning while reviewing academic papers for my Ph.D.
The app generates AI-driven summaries from recent abstracts in top journals.
🔗 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬.
#OpenSource #Research #AI #ResearchTools #Media #Communication
The app generates AI-driven summaries from recent abstracts in top journals.
🔗 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬.
#OpenSource #Research #AI #ResearchTools #Media #Communication
March 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🔍 I built an 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧-𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥 in just a few hours on a Sunday morning while reviewing academic papers for my Ph.D.
The app generates AI-driven summaries from recent abstracts in top journals.
🔗 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬.
#OpenSource #Research #AI #ResearchTools #Media #Communication
The app generates AI-driven summaries from recent abstracts in top journals.
🔗 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬.
#OpenSource #Research #AI #ResearchTools #Media #Communication
These findings have reminded me of the scene from one of my favorite movies on #journalism, The Network, hence this picture. RIP Peter Finch.
March 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
These findings have reminded me of the scene from one of my favorite movies on #journalism, The Network, hence this picture. RIP Peter Finch.
As a signatory of this open letter to @royalsociety.org , I join fellow researchers in calling out its silence on #ElonMusk’s actions, which contradict its Code of Conduct. Thank you, Emeritus Professor Stephen Curry, for this important initiative: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
February 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
As a signatory of this open letter to @royalsociety.org , I join fellow researchers in calling out its silence on #ElonMusk’s actions, which contradict its Code of Conduct. Thank you, Emeritus Professor Stephen Curry, for this important initiative: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
It was a true joy to be a visiting lecturer at Galatasaray University this year, teaching "Introduction to #AI in #Media and #Communication."
Looking forward to being back at Turkey's top-ranked communication faculty with its brilliant students for the second part of the course next semester.
Looking forward to being back at Turkey's top-ranked communication faculty with its brilliant students for the second part of the course next semester.
December 26, 2024 at 2:24 PM
It was a true joy to be a visiting lecturer at Galatasaray University this year, teaching "Introduction to #AI in #Media and #Communication."
Looking forward to being back at Turkey's top-ranked communication faculty with its brilliant students for the second part of the course next semester.
Looking forward to being back at Turkey's top-ranked communication faculty with its brilliant students for the second part of the course next semester.