Sezgi Başak Kavaklı PhD

Biography

Dr. Sezgi Başak Kavaklı is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts and Media at Louisiana State University Shreveport. Her teaching focuses on digital media, social media analytics, and journalism, while her research explores how media shape public discourse around migration, polarization in journalism, and the evolving landscape of digital storytelling and data-driven reporting. She is particularly interested in how media representations influence social attitudes and how data and digital platforms can be leveraged to support more nuanced and ethical storytelling.

Degrees

Selected Publications

Iliadis A., Acker, A. Stevens, W. & Kavakli, S. B. (2023): One Schema to Rule Them All: How Schema.org Models the World of Search, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4345169

Soomin S. & Kavakli, S. B. (2022): Media representations of refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants: a meta-analysis of research, Annals of the International Communication Association, https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985.2022.2096663