Kemal Gunay

Via Verdi, 26 - 38122 Trento
kemal.gunay[at]unitn [dot] it
Formazione

PhD Communication Science,Institute of Social Sciences, Istanbul University 2018 — 2022

Thesis: “Climate Change Communication and Public Relations: Comparison of Ministries and NGOs’ Public Relations Activities on Twitter” - Examined textual data with rule-based and unsupervised machine learning algorithms

Master Corporate Communications, Institute of Social Sciences, Istanbul University 2015 — 2018

Thesis: “Content-based communication in social media: A research on universities”

Bachelor Public Relations and Publicity, BA, Communication Faculty, Istanbul University 2003 — 2007

Carriera accademica ed attività didattica

New Media Research Methods – Python Tutorial, Istanbul Aydin University - 2023

  • I taught Python core courses in the social science: digital research methods and statistics.

Digital Advertising: Google AdWords, Search Console, and Analytics, Istanbul Aydin University -  2023

  • I provided undergraduate-level courses on Digital Marketing and Analytics, imparting knowledge to students on current digital marketing strategies and analytical methods. I equipped students with skills in planning and managing digital marketing campaigns using Google AdWords, Search Console, and Analytics.

PySpark ML Bank Customer Churn Prediction Project, Miuul - 2021

  • A workshop where I explained Spark installation and functions. GitHub

Teacher Bachelor course “Visualization in R”, Gelisim University - 2019

Interessi di ricerca

Data Science, Social Networks, Large Language Models - Knowledge Graph, Communication, Public opinion, Political Communication, Political Sociology, Digital Media, Climate Change Communication, Animal Rights

Convegni e conferenze

Gunay, K., Computational Social Science: TCSS 2023 Understanding Society with Data, Koc University, 13,14 April 2023

Gunay. K, “Climate Change Communication and Public Relations: Comparison of Ministries and NGOs’ Public Relations Activities on Twitter”, (bookdown format), 2022

Gucdemir, Y., Gunay, K., (2021)Is The Internet Of Things Transforming A Surveillance Tool? Istanbul University Press

Mengu, S., Mengu, M., Gunay, K. (2021). 19th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, 10-11  May 2021, Athens, Greece 

Gunay, K. Gucdemir, Y., CTC 2021 3rd Communication and Technology Congress 12-14 April 2021, Istanbul