Ayşenur Dal
Courses
- COMD 341 // Media and Society
- COMD 422 // Advanced Issues in Communication Studies
- COMD 358 // Professional Communication
- COMD 481-482 // Visual Communication Project I-II
- COMD 511 // Research Methods in Media and Visual Studies
- COMD 523 // Media and Everyday Life
Education
- Ph.D. in Communication, The Ohio State University, 2018
- M.A. in Communication, The Ohio State University, 2016
- B.A. in Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University 2012
Biography
Ayşenur Dal is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication and Design at Bilkent University, where she has been a faculty member since 2018. She was a Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs during her 2024–2025 sabbatical year. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from The Ohio State University and a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul.
Her research focuses on the social-psychological determinants of online expressive behavior. In particular, she examines how individuals navigate contextual dynamics that shape their interpretations of, and responses to, expression, privacy, and activism-related risks. Methodologically, she employs a mixed-methods approach, combining surveys, experiments, and focus groups.
Dr. Dal is the recipient of The Science Academy’s Young Scientist Award (BAGEP), The Turkish Academy of Sciences’ Outstanding Young Scientist Award (GEBİP) and The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award. Her work has been published in leading journals such as New Media & Society, Communication Research, Political Behavior, Social Media + Society, Human Communication Research, and the International Journal of Communication. She also co-edited the special issue Global Perspectives on Science, Polarization, and Populism in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, and contributed a chapter to the Oxford Handbook of New Social Movements. A full list of her publications can be found on her personal website.
Research Interests
Political Communication, Online Political Expression, Perceived Risks of Online Political Engagement, Digital Privacy, Online Self Disclosure.
0312 290 3345
Other Members
Aysın Ece Acar
Atahan Karaman
Deniz Akyıldırım
Gözde Doğan
Çisil Ulusoy
Deniz Ergin Erbil
Emre Toros
Özen Baş
Burak Özçetin
Geneviève Appleton
Jean Molitor
Bulut Reyhanoğlu
Prof. Dr. Mahmut Mutman
Oliver Grau
Cansu Nergiz
Colleen Connolly-Ahern
Çiğdem Karabağ
Prof. Dr. Annie van den Oever
Aykut Ecevit
Prof. Dr. Daniela Dimitrova
Prof. Dr. Jussi Parikka
Miray Akdağ
Prof. Dr. E. Nezih Orhon
Nisan Dağ
Zihni Tümer
Carlos Cabral Nunes
Ayşe Tatver
Bahar Şimşek Day
Boran Aksoy
Can Kutay
Egemen Kırkağaç
Emre Yalgın
Eren Su Kibele Yarman
Erhan Konuk
Gülden Treske
Melih Aydınat
Mustafa Dinç
Oğuz Akın
Sibel Elif Özdilek
Zafer Çeler
Ahmet Gürata
Andreas Treske
Burcu Baykan
Bülent Çaplı
Özcan Akar
Sabire Özyalçın
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
Didem Özkul
Emel Özdora
Fulten Larlar
Funda Şenova Tunalı ∞
Jülide Akşiyote Görür
Levent Y. İnce
Lutz Peschke
Maria Helena Brzozowska
Müge Mengü Hale
Ufuk Önen
Wickham Catesby Flannagan
