She received her Ph.D. on mass communications at Temple University in Philadelphia in 2000. She gave various lectures and seminars at universities in the USA, the UK and Greece on the freedom of expression and the media’s changing role in Turkey and around the world. She has numerous publications on the issues of democracy and media and social impacts of new media technologies in Turkey. She is also on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Comic Art, a scholarly publication of research on all aspects of comic art since 2001 and a contributor to a blog for The Comics Journal’s website at tcj.com. She is currently working on a book with a colleague on the impact of blogging on the future of journalism.