Idil Galip

PhD Candidate: "Art Worlds Online: Memes, Labour and Politics"

igalip@ed.ac.uk

Edinburgh

Profile

Research interests

Culture Data & Digital Digital sociology Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies Technology and material culture Work & Economy

Instagram, Subcultures, Online Communities, New Media, Memes, Algorithmic Culture, Art Worlds, Content Creation, Digital Folklore

Background

I am a PhD candidate, research assistant and tutor. I write about memes, digital labour, markets and culture, and also run the Meme Studies Research Network.

You can learn more about the methods I utilise in my doctoral thesis here:

"Niche memes: How online subcultures and entrepreneurial logic collide on Instagram"

Supervision Team

Dr. Kate Orton-Johnson

Dr. Karen Gregory

Publications

Galip, Idil. "The Grotesque in Instagram Memes" in Arkenbout, de Zeeuw and Wilson (Eds). Critical Meme Research: INC Reader #15. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. 2021.

Galip, Idil. "Wojak and the Digital Factory" in CONTENT. Bard College Meme Lab. 2021.

Galip, Idil. "Book Review: Digital Life", Information, Communication & Society. 2021.

Matheson, Parkes, Schofield, Dumbrell, Browne, Bancroft, & Galip. "Understanding the health impacts of the COVID-19 response on people who use drugs in Scotland (PWUD): Implications for COVID-19 infection and transmission among this group and impacts on harm reduction, treatment and recovery", Edinburgh: Chief Scientist Office. 2020.

Galip, Idil. "Book Review: Digital Sociologies", New Media & Society, 2019.

Karakayali, Nedim, Kostem Burc and Galip, Idil. “Recommendation systems as technologies of the self: Algorithmic control and the formation of music taste”, Theory, Culture & Society. Volume: 35 issue: 2, page(s): 3-24. 2017.

Talks

Guest lecturer: "Memes, Labour and Politics" in PG Course: Internet, Society and Economy. 2022

Guest lecturer: "Transformation of work and digital economies" in PG Course: Key Concepts in Global Social Change. 2021.

Co-presenter with Dr Angus Bancroft: "The impact of COVID-19 on Scottish drug markets: A moral economy perspective". Drugs Research Network Scotland Knowledge Exchange event: Impact of COVID-19 on people who use drugs. August 2021.

Presenter: "Art Worlds Online: Memes, Labour and Politics". British Sociological Association, Annual Conference. 2021.

Presenter: "Digital patronage and countercultural entrepreneurs: Instagram’s niche-meme community". ENDL-3: Unboxing AI: Understanding Artificial Intelligence - Graduate Colloquium. November 2020.

Presenter: "Sociological Observatory: Pandemic Futures in Edinburgh". Design Informatics Webinar: "Susceptible, Infectious, Recovering: tracing responses to the novel coronavirus in the city". July 16, 2020. A recording of the webinar can be accessed here.

Presenter: "Monetising Vulnerability: An exploration of Instagram's niche-memes and digital patronage". British Sociological Association, Annual Conference. 2020 (cancelled due to covid-19).

Presenter: "The Memeing of Feminism: Humour on Instagram"

Co-chair: "Digital Research Ethics" Panel. University of Edinburgh, New Directions. April 19, 2019.

Presenter: “Dangerous Words: Online Citizenship and Censorship in Turkey”. Bilkent University, POLS Talks Seminar Series. December 5 2017, Ankara - Turkey.