The projects of our university academics, Dr. Lecturer Demet Özer and Dr. İpek Yeğinsü, have been granted support within the scope of TÜBİTAK 3501 – Career Development Program.
Department of Psychology Dr. Lecturer Member Demet Özer The title of her funded project is “Multimodal Language Use Strategies in the Interaction of Cognitive Features of Speakers and Their Imaginary Listeners: An Integrative Review”.
This project aims to investigate the multimodal language (oral language and iconic hand gestures) strategies used depending on the cognitive characteristics of the speaker and the listener, which are two important elements of natural communication environments. The project will examine how the multimodal language used by the speakers changes depending on both the spatial and verbal abilities of the speaker and the assumed spatial and verbal abilities of the listeners to whom they address their speech, and how these different multimodal language uses are semantically evaluated by a different group of listeners.
The project title of Dr. İpek Yeğinsü, who works in the Visual Communication Design Department, is “Analysis of the Effects of Qualified Intellectual Property Titles (NFT) on the Field of Visual Arts in Turkey through T. F. Gieryn’s “Border-work” Concept”.
This project aims to define and interpret the relationship between the boundaries between the fields of Contemporary Art and Qualified Intellectual Property (NFT) and the established hierarchies and institutional mechanisms of the art world (Szabo and Skovrup, 2022) through the “boundary-work” (Gieryn, 1983) processes of artists, museums, cultural institutions, galleries and NFT platforms operating at the common border of these two fields in Turkey; and to present the findings for the benefit of the field in order to increase its sustainability and global competitiveness.
We congratulate our teachers Demet and İpek and wish them success in their research.