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Professor Ahmet Atay

Professor Ahmet Atay

Visiting Senior Fellow

Department of Media and Communications

Email
A.Atay@lse.ac.uk
Languages
English, Turkish
Key Expertise
Media and film studies, New media studies, Cultural studies

About me

Ahmet Atay (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University- Carbondale) is a Professor of Global Media and Communication at the College of Wooster. His research focuses on diasporic experiences and cultural identity formations; political and social complexities of city life, such as immigrant and queer experiences; the usage of new media technologies in different settings; and the notion of home; representation of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in media; queer and immigrant experiences in cyberspace, and critical communication pedagogies. He is the author of Globalization’s Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015) and the co-editor of several books. His scholarship appeared in a number of journals and edited books. 

Expertise Details

Media and film studies; New media studies; Cultural studies; Queer theory and gender studies; Globalization; Postcolonial and decolonial studies; Autoethnography

Publications

Books

  • Atay, Ahmet and Mary Z. Ashlock, eds. Social Media, Technology and New Generations: Digital Millennial Generation and Generation Z. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2022.
  • Kahl Jr., David and Ahmet Atay, eds. Pedagogies of Post Truth. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2021.
  • Trebing, Diana and Ahmet Atay, eds. Mentoring and Communication: Theories and Practices. New York, NY: Peter Lang. 2021.   
  • Atay, Ahmet, Yea-Wen Chen, and Alberto González, eds. Intercultural Memories:Contesting Places, Spaces and Stories. New York, NY: Peter Lang. 2021.   
  • Atay, Ahmet, and Yea-Wen Chen, eds. Postcolonial Turn and Geopolitical Uncertainty: Transnational Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2021.
  • Atay, Ahmet, and Alberto Gonzalez, eds. Connections and Inclusions: Intercultural Communication in Communication Studies Scholarship. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • D’Silva, Margaret, and Ahmet Atay, eds. Intercultural Communication, Identity and Social Movements in the Digital Age. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • Atay, Ahmet and Deanna Fassett, eds. Mediated Communication Pedagogy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020.  

Journal Articles

  • Kahl Jr., David H., Ahmet Atay, Najla Amundson. Countering the Service-Learning Privilege Problem through Critical Communication Pedagogy and Critical Assessment. Journal of Communication Pedagogy. 6, 271-278, 2022.
  • Atay, Ahmet. Serial Narratives in New Millennium: The Decline and the Future of Daytime US Soap Operas. Journal of Popular Television. 10, 2, 123-137. 2022.
  • Atay, Ahmet and Kristyn Gorton. Histories and New Directions: Soap Opera/Serial Narrative Research. Journal of Popular Television. 10, 2, 115-122. 2022.
  • Fassett, Deanna and Ahmet Atay. Reconciling, Romanticization and Vilification: Constituting Post-pandemic Communication Pedagogy. Communication Education. 71, 2, 146-148, 2022.
  • Atay, Ahmet. Digital Transnational Queer Isolations and Connections. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication,14, 4, 351-365.2021.
  • Atay, Ahmet. Transnational and Decolonizing Queer Digital/Quick Media and Cyberculture Studies. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 18, 2, 183-189. 2021. 
  • Atay, Ahmet. Charting the Future of Queer Studies in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies: New Directions and Pathways. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. 2021. (Online)
  • Atay, Ahmet. Reflection, Revision, Resistance. Communication Education, 70, 3, 342-346. 2021. 
  • Atay, Ahmet, Melissa Broeckelman-Post, and Joseph Mazer. Editors Introduction:Diversity, Intersectionality, Transnationality, and Pedagogy. Communication Education, 70, 3, 327-328. 2021. 
  • Bhattacharya, Kakali and Ahmet Atay. Introduction: The Im/Possibility of Finding Home in Academia: Personal Narratives of Transnationally Minoritized Scholars in Higher Education. Qualitative Inquiry. (Spring 2021). (Issue 1)
  • Atay, Ahmet and Kakali Bhattacharya. Introduction: The Im/Possibility of Finding Home in Academia: Personal Narratives of Transnationally Minoritized Scholars in Higher Education. Qualitative Inquiry. (Spring 2021). (Issue 2)
  • Atay, Ahmet. Digital Bodies, Digital Lives, and Digital Stories. International Review of Qualitative Research. 13 (3), 317-33. 2020.
  • Atay, Ahmet. What is Cyber and Digital Autoethnography? International Review of Qualitative Research 13 (3), 267-279. 2020.
  • Atay, Ahmet. Seeing the Italian Culture through the Eyes of Ferzan Ozpetek: Queers, Immigrants, Global Nomads and the Changing Nature of Italian Society. Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture 4 (3) 271-285. 2019.
  • Atay, Ahmet. Defining Transnational Queer Media and Popular Culture. Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture 4 (3), 233-239. 2019.
  • Atay, Ahmet. Merit, Diversity, and Resilience: An International Faculty Perspective. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research Winter, 30-34. 2019.

 Book Chapters

  • Atay, Ahmet. “Transnational Queer Screen Mobilities: Quick Media Application, Home, Love, and Sex Online.” Mobilities on Screen. Eds. Ruxandra Trandafoiu. Routledge. 2022. 61-71.
  • Atay, Ahmet. “Postcoloniality and Communication.” Communication in the 2020s. Ed. Christina Beck. Routledge.
  • Atay, Ahmet. “Mediated Narratives as Companions.” Affective Worldmaking Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality. Eds. Silvia Schultermandl, Jana Aresin, Dijana Simić, and Si Whybrew. Transcript Verlag. 2022. 201-208.
  • Atay, Ahmet. “Millennials, Dating Applications and Tinder: Living on Social Network Sites and Searching for Love and Community.” Social Media, Technology and New Generations: Digital Millennial Generation and Generation Z. Eds. Ahmet Atay and Mary Z. Ashlock. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2022. 29-42.
  • Atay, Ahmet and Mary Z. Ashlock. “New Media Technologies, Social Media, Millennials, and Generation Z: An Introduction.” Social Media, Technology and New Generations: Digital Millennial Generation and Generation Z. Eds. Ahmet Atay and Mary Z. Ashlock. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2022. 1-19.
  • Atay, Ahmet. “Translation and Tango: Decolonizing Autoethnography.” Handbook of Autoethnography. Eds. Tony E. Adams, Stacy Holman-Jones, and Carolyn Ellis. Oxford University Press. 2021. 295-302.
  • Atay, Ahmet. “Challenging the Discourse of Post-Truth in Media Classes: Digital Media and Cultural Pedagogies.” Pedagogies of Post Truth. Eds. David Kahl, Jr. and Ahmet Atay. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2021.
  • Kahl Jr., David and Ahmet Atay. “Introduction.” Pedagogies of Post Truth. Eds. David Kahl, Jr. and Ahmet Atay. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2021.
  • Atay, Ahmet and Diana Trebing. “Introduction: Theoretical Approaches to Mentoring.” Mentoring and Communication: Theories and Practices. Eds. Diana Trebing and Ahmet Atay. New York, NY: Peter Lang. 2021. 1-17.
  • Atay, Ahmet. “Collaborative Cultural Mentoring: An Academic Compass.” Mentoring and Communication: Theories and Practices. New York, NY: Peter Lang. 2021. 91-110.
  • Atay, Ahmet. “Photographs as Diasporic Memories: Turkish Cypriots, Home, and Memory.” Intercultural Memories: Contesting Places, Spaces and Stories. Eds. Ahmet Atay, Yea-Wen Chen, and Alberto González. New York, NY: Peter Lang. 2021. 135-148.
  • Atay, Ahmet, Yea-Wen Chen, and Alberto González “Introduction: Intercultural Communication, Memory, and Stories.” Intercultural Memories: Contesting Places, Spaces and Stories. Eds. Ahmet Atay, Yea-Wen Chen, and Alberto González. New York, NY: Peter Lang. 2021. 1-9.
  • Atay, Ahmet. “Transnational and Postcolonial Turn: Shift in Perspective.” Postcolonial Turn and Geopolitical Uncertainty: Transnational Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy. Eds. Ahmet Atay and Yea-Wen Chen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2021. 39-55.
  • Atay, Ahmet, and Yea-Wen Chen. “Introduction: Reimagining Transnational Possibilities and Decolonial Potentials in Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy.” Postcolonial Turn and Geopolitical Uncertainty: Transnational Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy. Eds.
  • Ahmet Atay and Yea-Wen Chen. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2021. vii-xix. Lengel, Lara, Ahmet Atay, and Yannick Kluch. “Decolonising Gender and Intercultural Communication in Transnational Contexts.” The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication. Eds. Guido Rings and Sebastian Rasinger. Cambridge, UK. Cambridge University Press. 2020. 205-226.
  • Atay, Ahmet. “Transnational and Postcolonial Turn: Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy.” Internationalizing the Communication Curriculum in an Age of Globalization:  Why, What, and How. Eds. Esther Yook, Paaige Turner, Eddah Mutua, and Soumia Bardhan. New York, NY: Routledge. 2020.185-195. Top Three Finalist, ASHE CIHE (Council on International Higher Education) Award for Significant Research on International Higher Education, Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2021 
  • Manning, Jimmie, Tony E. Adams, and Ahmet Atay. “Gay, Grey, Gray, and Play: Fifty Shades Queer: Ed. Jessica M. W. Kratzer. Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2020. 217-230.
  • Atay, Ahmet. “Intercultural Queer Slippages and Translations.” Queer Intercultural Communication Studies: In and Across Local, National, and Transnational Contexts. Eds. Shinsuke Eguchi and Bernadette Calafell. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 2020. 141-156.
  • Atay, Ahmet. “The Role of Diversity in Mediated Critical Communication Pedagogy.” Eds. Ahmet Atay and Deanna Fassett. Mediated Critical Communication Pedagogy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2020. 61-74.
  • Atay, Ahmet and Deanna Fassett. “Defining Mediated Critical Communication Pedagogy.” Eds. Ahmet Atay and Deanna Fassett. Mediated Critical Communication Pedagogy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2020. 1-11.
  • D’Silva, Margaret U. and Ahmet Atay. “Introduction: Cultural Activism and Identity in Digital Spaces. Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age. Eds. Margaret U. D’Silva and Ahmet Atay. New York, NY: Routledge. 2020. 1-6.

 

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