ATLANTA—Georgia State University Presidential Fellow Ayse Lokmanoglu defended her dissertation on June 28th, 2021 and will start a post-doctoral fellowship with the Center for Communication and Public Policy at Northwestern University. Lokmanoglu will be working on research in the area of computational social science for the ongoing work to examine online political and health misinformation.
As a member of the Department of Communication, Lokmanoglu earned her M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. She earned a B.A. in Economics and Near Eastern Studies from Cornell University. Lokmanoglu’s dissertation Imagined Economics: An Analysis of Non-state Actor Economic Messaging argues how non-state actors use economic messaging to form collectives, differentiate sub-groups, and use objects to define themselves and their enemies. She employs computational, rhetorical and statistical analysis to holistically examine the non-state actor’s communication output.
Lokmanoglu has been a Presidential Fellow with Georgia State’s TCV initiative, a group of multi-disciplinary scholars working to root out the causes and solutions in transcultural conflicts and violence across the globe.
Her research focuses on malign digital campaigns (hate speech, extremism, and disinformation) and utilizing computational and rhetoric analysis to inform real-world solutions.
Lokmanoglu recently published her research on Transhistorical Artifact and an Ideograph in Islamic State’s Communication in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Lokmanoglu’s work has been published in Journal of Health Communication, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and other edited volumes.