Özyeğin University, Çekmeköy Campus Nişantepe District, Orman Street, 34794 Çekmeköy - İSTANBUL
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İlkay
Tuzcu Tığılı
Instructor
Management
Galatasaray University, Media and Communication Studies, 2019
Istanbul Kultur University, Communication Design, 2012
Gazi University, English Language Teaching, 2006
Ilkay Tuzcu Tigli received her B.A. in English Language Teaching from Gazi University in 2006 and her M.A. in Communication Design from Istanbul Kultur University in 2012. She completed her Ph.D. in Media and Communication Studies at Galatasaray University in 2019, supported by a TÜBİTAK Ph.D. scholarship. During her tenure as a Fulbright scholar at Portland State University (2010–2011), she completed a TESOL certification program while serving as a Foreign Language Teaching Assistant. Prior to joining Özyeğin University in 2012, she taught at Istanbul Kultur University, Portland State University, and Istanbul Bilgi University. Currently, she teaches English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and Technical Communication at the School of Languages (ScOLa), and since 2025, she has been instructing Business Communication in the MBA and Executive MBA (EMBA) programs at Özyeğin University Business School. Her research interests include Business Communication, Technical Communication, Cultural Studies, New Media and Digital Culture, Neo-subcultures, The Network Society, Class and Identity.
Business Communication, Technical Communication, Cultural Studies, New Media and Digital Culture, Neo-subcultures, The Network Society, Class and Identity.
Journal Articles
- Tuzcu-Tığlı, İ. (2021). Dijital çağda Althusser’i okumak: İdeoloji, Twitter ve gündem müptelalığı. Düşünbil Dergisi, (98).
- Tuzcu-Tığlı, İ. (2020). Ulu Şef Seattle’dan Žižek’e… İnsan ve virüs. Düşünbil Dergisi, (91).
- Tuzcu-Tığlı, İ. (2020). Roland Barthes, dilin iktidarı ve söylen. Düşünbil Dergisi, (87).
Conference Proceedings / Book Chapters
- Tuzcu-Tığlı, İ. (2022). Is “class” dead for digital youth subcultures? In Proceedings of the 9th International Communication Days: Communication Studies in the Digital Age Symposium.
- Tuzcu-Tığlı, İ. (2022). Sosyal medyada kültürel akışlar ve dikkat ekonomisi: Instagram’da Türkiye’nin zengin çocukları örneği. In Yeni Medya Çalışmaları 5. Ulusal Kongre Bildiri Kitabı. Ilkay_Tuzcu_Tigli_CV.
Conference Presentations
- Tuzcu-Tığlı, İ. (2022, May). Is “class” dead for digital youth subcultures? [Conference presentation]. 9th International Communication Days: Communication Studies in the Digital Age Symposium, Üsküdar University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Tuzcu-Tığlı, İ. (2021). Sosyal medyada kültürel akışlar ve dikkat ekonomisi: Instagram’da Türkiye’nin zengin çocukları örneği [Conference presentation]. 5th National New Media Studies Congress, Adana, Turkey.
- Tuzcu-Tığlı, İ. (2021). Küreselden yerele dijital gençlik kültürleri [Conference presentation]. 5th National New Media Studies Congress, Adana, Turkey.
- Tuzcu-Tığlı, İ. (2019, June). Navigating through academic writing genres [Conference presentation]. European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW) Conference, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Tuzcu-Tığlı, İ. (2019). Academic writing genres [Conference presentation]. SCOLA 2019 Symposium, Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Tuzcu-Tığlı, İ. (2017, June). Image is everything: New modes of self representation in the network society [Conference presentation]. The European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) Conference, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France.
MGMT 707 Business Communication, ENG 303 Technical Communication, ENG 101, ENG 102.