Publications

Books

  1. Furman, I. (2027), “A Cultural History of Computing Magazines in Türkiye – Coding, Machines and Silicon Dreams”. Leiden University Press. Forthcoming.
  2. Hecker, P., Furman, I., Akyildiz, A. (2021), “The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey. Studies on Modern Turkey”, Edinburgh University Press. 9781474490283.

Journal Publications

  1. Furman, I., & Erdikmen, A. (2025). The Demoscene: From digital subculture to UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 1–17.

  2. Furman, I. (2025). Book Review: Review of Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power. International Journal of Communication, 19: 2300-2303.
  1. Furman, I. (2024). Book Review: Cultural Analytics. International Journal of Communication, 18: 4644-4647.
  1. Furman, I. O. (2024). What Were Bulletin Board Systems? Looking Back At Pre-Internet Online Communication in Turkey. İletişim Kuram Ve Araştırma Dergisi(66), 140-159.  
  1. Biliç, P., Dukic, D., Arambašic, L., Gjurkovic, M., Šnajder J. and Furman, I. (2023). “Digital news media as a social resilience proxy: A computational political economy perspective”, New Media and Society.
  1. Furman, I. O., & Akyildiz, K. (2023).  Mapping Anti-Diyanet Oppositional Publics During the 2018 Deism Controversy on Turkish Twitter. Galatasaray Üniversitesi İletişim Dergisi.
  1. Furman, I. O., Gürel, K. B., & Sivaslıoğlu, F. B. (2023). “As Reliable as a Kalashnikov Rifle”: How Sputnik News Promotes Russian Vaccine Technologies in the Turkish Twittersphere. Social Media + Society, 9(1).
  1. Furman, I., & Süngü, E. (2021). Kolaboratif Faaliyet Modelinin Çelişkileri: Ekşi Sözlük Sanal Topluluğunda Cinsiyetçi Söylem ve Pratiklere Dair Bir İnceleme. REFLEKTİF Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2(1), 119–139.
  1. Furman, I. (2020). Book Review: YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture. International Journal of Communication, 14: 4540-4543
  1. Furman, I., Tunç, A. (2019), “End of a Habermassian Ideal? Political Communication on Twitter during the night of the 2017 Turkish Constitutional Referendum”. Policy & the Internet 11.
  1. Furman, I., Saka E., Yıldırım S., Elbeyi E. (2019), “The Gulf Information War, News Coverage of the Gulf Crisis in the Turkish Mediascape: Agendas, Frames, and Manufacturing Consent.” International Journal of Communication, 13:28.
  1. Biliç, P., Furman, I., Yıldırım, S. (2018), “The Refugee Crisis in the Digital News: Towards a Computational Political Economy of Communication”. The Political Economy of Communication Journal. Volume 6, Issue 1.
  1. Furman, I. (2015), “Studying the Influence of Bulletin Board System (BBS) Technologies on Communication Culture of Pre-Internet Turkish-Speaking Online Communities: A Socio-Technical (STS) Approach”. New Perspectives on Turkey (NPT).
  1. Furman, I. (2014). Invisible Natalia: Moldavian Gagauz caregivers in Turkish households. Heritage Turkey, 4, 11–11. 
  1. Furman, I. (2013), Book Review: Çelik, Burçe. Technology and National Identity in Turkey: Mobile Communications and the Evolution of a Post- Ottoman Nation. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. New Perspectives on Turkey 

Book Chapters

  1. Furman, I & Erdikmen, A. (2026, forthcoming) “Attention Users, Please Refrain from Modifying Your Ataris – Corporate Region-Locking Practices and Creative Computing Responses in Türkiye”, Silicon Dawn: Creative Computing in Europe: 1970-2000. Amsterdam University Press.
  1. Furman, I, & Gürel, K. (2022) “Algoritmik Yöntemler, Sosyal Medya ve Büyük Veri”, Dijital Kültür, Anadolu Üniversitesi Açıköğretim Fakültesi Yayınları. ISBN: 9789750642173
  1. Furman, I (2021) “Battling over the spirit of a nation: Attitudes towards alcohol in Contemporary Turkey”, The Politics of Culture in New Turkey. Studies on Modern Turkey, Edinburgh University Press. ISBN: 9781474490283
  1. Furman, I. & Kırklar, A. (2020) Mücbir Sebepler: Turkey’s Talk Show for COVID-19 Lockdowns. In E. E. Başar (Ed.), Paradigm shifts within the communication world. Nova Science Publishers.  ISBN: 9781536196726
  1. Furman, I (2018) “Finding a place for data-driven practices in the Turkish mediascape”, Media with its news, approaches and fractions in the new media age. Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-631-76725-2
  1. Furman, I (2018) “Algorithms, Dashboards and Datafication: A Critical Evaluation of Social Media Monitoring”, Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-3-319-76279-1
  1. Furman, I. (2017) “Veri gazeteciliği nedir? Türkiye’de gazeteciliğin geleceği üzerine bir tartışma”, Digital dönemde gazetecilik için yeni iş modelleri. Taş Mektep Yayınları. ISBN: 6058269705
  1. Furman, I. (2016) “Coders, geeks and moderators: how Bulletin Board Systems influenced early Internet Pioneering Culture in Turkey”, Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories, Routledge. ISBN: 9781138812161
  1. Furman, I. (2015) “Alternatif medya olarak akranlar arası kolektif üretim: 2013 Gezi Parkı Eylemleri’nde Ekşi Sözlük’ün rolüne dair bir inceleme”, Direniş Çağında Türkiye’de Alternatif Medya, Epsiyon Yayınevi, ISBN: 9786054820184.
  1. Furman, I. (2013) “Digital archives and the construction of an alternative cultural memory in Turkey: a case study of Ekşisözlük”, Turkey – EU Relations: Power, Politics and the Future, Vol. II, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN: 1443848700.

Conference Papers

  1. Furman, I. (2022). “Challenges & Opportunities of Computational Methodologies for Media Studies.” 2. International Mediterranean Scientific Research and Innovation Congress, 1147–1153.
  1. Sivaslıoğlu, B. & Furman, I. (2022). “Russia, The Mediating Power: Assessing Sputnik Turkey’s News Coverage of the Second Nagorno Karabakh War.” International Social Sciences Congress in the Age of Digital Transformation, 368-375.
  1. Furman, I. (2011). “Aesthetics and Fantasy of Kemalist Nationalism in New Media” Fredriksson, Martin, ed. Current Issues in European Cultural Studies, (062) 1650-3740.

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