Halil Nalçaoğlu

Halil Nalçaoğlu is a full professor at Istanbul Bilgi University. He was born in 1962 in Ankara, Türkiye. He completed his undergraduate studies in sociology at the Middle East Technical University. He then earned his master’s degree from the Institute of Social Sciences at Ankara University and his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, both in the field of communication. He completed his doctoral thesis on "Display Zones: Modernity and the Constitution of Cultural Difference." His publications include "A Framework for Understanding the Relationship between Media and Society", "The Philosophy of Exhibition and Museums in Modern Societies", "Homeland: Under, Above and Beyond the Earth", "Heterotopia, Colony and Other Spaces: Reflections on A Short Text by Michel Foucault", "Communication, Optimism and Problems of Credibility in Empire", "Youth and the New Ethos of Social Communication: Illusions, Findings and Speculations", "The Internet and the Destruction of the Visual: In Search of A Theoretical Model for the Analysis of Internet Content", "The Closing of Archivism: The Internet as Social Memory and Archive", "Artificial Intelligence Debates and 'Reverse Modelling': Will Humans be Able to Think Like Machines in the Future?" and "Deconstructing Cultural Difference." Since 2000, Halil Nalçaoğlu has designed and coordinated various research projects for UNICEF, TUBITAK, the European Commission Civil Society Development Project, UNDP GEF-SGP, Ipsos, and Istanbul Bilgi University. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Communication at Istanbul Bilgi University between 2011 and 2023 and has been the coordinator of undergraduate and graduate programs in Media and Communication Systems. He is currently a faculty member at the same university and the founding director of the Istanbul Institute of Communication.