Social Media as Conflict Event Data

The Department of International Relations will host Assoc. Prof. Akın Ünver on 17 February 2021 with his study titled "Social Media as Conflict Event Data." The event will take place online via Zoom on the 17th of February between 17.00-18.30pm.

The short biography of Akın Ünver can be found below.

Short Bio

Akin Unver is an associate professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University, specializing in conflict research, computational methods, and digital crisis communication. He is the Resident Fellow of Cyber Research Program at the Centre for Economic and Foreign Policy Research (EDAM), a Research Associate at the Center for Technology and Global Affairs, Oxford University, and a Senior Research Fellow at GUARD (Global Urban Analytics for Resilient Defence) at the Alan Turing Institute. He is the author of ‘Defining Turkey’s Kurdish Question: Discourse and Politics Since 1990’ (Routledge Series in Middle Eastern Politics). He is the Istanbul organizer of the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS).