Lemi Baruh
Release Date 2020-06-03 15:00
ResearchTUBITAK ARDEB 1001- Scientific and Technological Research Projects Funding Program: “COVID-19 and Society: Social, Human and Economic Effects of the Outbreak, Problems and Solutions”
The Influence of Newspaper Readership and Social Media Use on Individuals’ Likelihood of Engagement in Health-Protective Behavior against COVID-19
The project aims to investigate information disseminated on mass media and social media as factors that may influence COVID-19 risk perceptions and the extent to which individuals adopt health-protective behaviors or behaviors that may put them at risk concerning COVID-19. The project has three main components: 1) Application of machine learning techniques for analysis of content about COVID-19 on social media (Twitter), 2) A content analysis of news about COVID-19 published by national newspapers, and 3) An online survey, along with modules containing survey-experiments. The research team for the project: Lemi Baruh (Department of Media and Visual Arts), Ali Çarkoğlu (Department of International Relations), Zeynep Cemalcılar (Department of Psychology), CSSH (Department of Psychology) alumnus Ozan Kuru (currently a postdoc researcher at the University of Pennsylvania) and GSSSH (International Relations and Political Science Doctoral Program) alumnus Kerem Yıldırım (currently a postdoc researcher at Duke University).
European Commission Horizon2020 KIDS4ALL Project
The KIDS4ALLL project, which is partnered by Koç University and managed by MiReKoc and Sociology faculty member Çetin Çelik, will develop a pilot learning method and learning environment in formal, non-formal and informal educational contexts to address the integration challenges of migrant children.