Bogazici University Digital Archive: Recent submissions

  • Images of time : analysis of stele of Vultures and Victory stele of Naram-Sin 
    Koçer, Azra Ruveyde. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Commemorative monuments were created in Mesopotamia for the first time. They were carved in relief and inscribed withs texts and recorded historical events with name of the ruler. This thesis investigates the connections ...
  • Village close enough : a study of the changing character of rural space in Turkey 
    Taşyürek, Elif Hatice. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This thesis aims to investigate movements occurring at a close distance between rural and urban areas and the changing character of the rural space in Turkey. Within the scope of the ethnographic field research I conducted ...
  • China’s shifting position in the global climate change 
    Elmalı, Burak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2023., 2022)
    Over the past two decades, China has emerged as a rising economic power with excessive amounts of carbon emissions that directly contribute to global climate change. Being a part of the international regime for global ...
  • Lived experiences of parents of children and adolescents with cancer in Türkiye 
    Özdemir, Sümeyye. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    The purpose of the current study is to investigate the lived experiences of parents of children and adolescents with cancer in Türkiye. In this qualitative study which aimed to understand how having a child undergoing ...
  • Individualized second language vocabulary learning through a collaborative multimedia platform : a design-based research 
    Özkan, Gökhan. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Incorporation of computer-assisted language learning applications into learning environments through collaborative learning management systems embedded in a hybrid/native mobile app is the subject of this research to apply, ...
  • Corporate governance and financial distress : global evidence, macroeconomic governance factors, and distress duration 
    Çeliktaş, Mehmet. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This study examines the impact of corporate governance mechanisms and ownership structures on financial distress through comparative analyses of the global, developed, and emerging market samples. Additional emphasis is ...
  • Essays on growth, structural change and taxation 
    Höke, Fatma Kübra. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This thesis examines economies’ long-run dynamics with theoretical and empirical tools. It is composed of three chapters. In Chapter 1, we provide evidence for the labor share, structural change, fixed costs, and productivity ...
  • Markups, endogenous market power and misallocation in Turkey 
    Karagöz, Korcan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Analyzing firms’ market power and the related aggregate misallocation is one of the intriguing subjects of the macroeconomics research frontier. However, market power and misallocation are mostly treated as exogenous ...
  • Scepticism and 'atitude' : a Wittgensteinian approach 
    Arslan, Nesibe Sena. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This study offers an examination of a certain kind of philosophical scepticism, e.g., scepticism about other minds, in relation to our way of knowing and understanding others. We take scepticism about other minds as an ...
  • Love, reason and transcendence : ‘Ineffable’ love and the limits of sense 
    Kurtar, Buse. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Love is one of the greatest phenomena if not the greatest. Thus, in my MA thesis, I am investigating the concept of Love in its connections to transcendence, to the divine in contrast to the limits of “sense” both as the ...
  • Meno’s paradox and the possibility of inquiry 
    Panahee, Mohammad Raziq. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Plato in his Meno puts forward a challenge against the possibility of inquiry. This challenge has two stages, at one, Meno’s questions challenge the possibility of inquiry in the case of how different kinds of knowledge ...
  • Examining Turkish preschool teachers’ knowledge and beliefs in relation to early literacy 
    Sarrafoğlu Çalışkan, Şeymanur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2023., 2022)
    This study aims to examine the knowledge and beliefs of preschool teachers working in Istanbul about early literacy in the 2022- 2023 academic year. In this study, correlational research method was used to determine preschool ...
  • Mathematics teachers' epistemological beliefs and technology acceptance in emergency remote teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic 
    Erol, Rumeysa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This explanatory sequential mixed-method study examined middle school mathematics teachers’ emergency remote teaching (ERT) experiences in the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of their mathematics-oriented epistemological beliefs ...
  • Turkish indefinites : scope and specificity 
    Baykuş, Ecem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    Turkish indefinites in object position are expressed in two ways: one is marked with the accusative case, and the other one is non-marked. Interestingly, there is a sharp contrast between these two indefinites. Accusative ...
  • Translators' formative agency in the periodical Hawar (1932-1943) : the making of a Kurdish cultural identity 
    Çelik, Dibar. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    The present study explores the key role translations in Hawar played in the formation of a Kurdish cultural identity through analysis of translations and translators' agency, adopting the non-essentialist concept of "cultural ...
  • Queer translation of non-literary texts as activism in Turkey 
    Duraner Dikmen, Jasmin Esin. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This dissertation explores the role of translation and translators in queer scholarship and activism in Turkey through analysis of the translated non-literary queer texts, terminological discussions in Kaos GL magazine ...
  • Journalistic translation in Turkey : a critical approach to the concepts of “Transediting” and “Journalator” 
    Turan, Eda. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This study explores the role of translation in foreign news reporting and journalistic practices from a Translation Studies perspective and aims at demonstrating to what extent the most frequently employed concepts of ...
  • The rise of multimodality : applying translation criticism to video games 
    Sönmez, Mehmet Eren. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Institute of Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)
    This thesis explores how the video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (W3WH) and its official translation alongside a fan translation into Turkish can be systematically analyzed by a translation criticism model. The study also ...
  • Design of a social robot and safe social navigation with deep reinforcement learning 
    Bektaş, Kemal. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2022., 2022)
    This thesis is concerned with the design and development of a social robot that can navigate around in a socially compliant manner. The importance of this problem is due to the growing demand of using robots in human-populated ...
  • Personalized product recommendation on second hand platforms 
    Yarar, Ramazan. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2022., 2022)
    With the advent of online marketplaces which millions of people worldwide visit and make purchase every second, the shopping experience and competition between these platforms have been significantly changed and recommendation ...

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