Dr Ergin Bulut
Staff details
Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
e.bulut (@gold.ac.uk)
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Ergin researches the politics of work in cultural industries and affective dimensions of neoliberal-authoritarianism.
Ergin Bulut is Senior Lecturer in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He researches in the areas of political economy of media and cultural industries, videogame studies, and philosophy of technology. He is the author of award-winning book "A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry" (Cornell UP, 2020). His work has been published in journals including Media, Culture & Society, Feminist Media Studies, Triple C, International Journal of Communication, Communication, Culture and Critique, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Television and New Media, Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies.
Academic qualifications
- PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) 2014
Research interests
Ergin’s main research interest lies in understanding how media professionals work in a capitalist and digital context. Specifically, he has ethnographically examined the politics of “do what you love” in videogame production, the legal and political dimensions of precarity and platformization in Turkey’s television drama production, as well as how journalists practice and imagine their work in authoritarian contexts facing political pressure and masculine troll networks. Ergin enjoys producing interdisciplinary work, bringing political economy together with cultural studies, affect studies, and philosophy of technology.
Featured publications
2023: The fantasy of love and ludic authoritarianism in the videogame industry
2023:
Networked misogyny beyond the digital: the violent devaluation of women journalists’ labor and bodies in Turkey’s masculine authoritarian regime
Co-authored with Dr. Basak Can
2023: Eventocracy, Affective Supremacy, and Resistance in Turkey’s Captured Media Ecology
2022: Dewesternizing Precarity in Turkish TV Production through the Body and Law
Publications and research outputs
Book Section
Yesil, Bilge and Bulut, Ergin. 2024. Post-truth in Turkey: Political Economy of Media and Articulations of Gender, Ethnicity and Nationalism. In: Jayson Harsin, ed. Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust: Globality, Culture, Affect. New York: Routledge, pp. 180-195. ISBN 9781032484198
Article
Bulut, Ergin. 2024. Globally connected, nationally restrained: Platform ambiguities and censorship in Turkey’s drama production. International Journal of Cultural Studies, ISSN 1367-8779
Bulut, Ergin and Can, Başak. 2024. The persistence of race, violence, and state in a post-truth world. Communication and Race, 1(1), pp. 64-72. ISSN 2834-6955