EMRE KIZILKAYA
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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
5️⃣ Grateful to co-authors Kerem Rızvanoğlu, Serhat Güney, Betül Aydoğan and Onurcan Güden.

The link to the full paper, which you can also find interactive maps to explore: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QBQ8I...

#UrbanTech #DigitalHumanities #MobilityCulture #AlgorithmicBias #SmartCities #Algorithms
Bosphorus is a super-element: mobility culture and urban perception of international students in Istanbul
The purpose of this study is to investigate how international students in Istanbul perceive and practice the city and what role technology plays as a mediator in their mobility culture. Employing a...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:21 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.
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.
November 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
2️⃣ We analyzed:

• 265M transit journeys
• Surveys with 208 international students
• Gamified digital diaries and walk & talk sessions
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I am not sure about the original source of this video but I saw it from the feeds of Israeli journalists on X who shared it via @UnxeptableD .
November 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Thank you. Not yet but soon to be. I'll share the link when it's published online.
October 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM