Bilge Yesil Associate Professor, College of Staten Island, City University of New York

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Bilge Yesil is an Associate Professor of Media Culture at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island.  Her research focuses on Internet policy, surveillance, censorship, mediated activism, and media and globalization.  She is the author of two books including Video Surveillance: Power and Privacy in Everyday Life (2009), and Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State (2016).  Yesil earned her M.A. degree in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her doctoral studies in Media, Culture, and Communication from NYU.