Murat Akser is a Professor of Film Studies and Production at Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Bogazici University.. He served as Lecturer at the School of Arts and Humanities, Ulster University, UK and holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from York University, Canada. Previously he was an Associate Professor of Cinema and Media studies at Kadir Has University where he was head of Department of New Media. Previously he has taught communication and media studies in Canada between 1999-2006 at York University, Ryerson University and University of Toronto. His research is on the freedom of expression, alternative journalism, citizen media, social movement media and hacktivism. His work was published in Middle East Journal of Communication and Culture, New Media & Society, NECSUS, Historical Journal of Film and Canadian Journal of Film Studies. He has a monograph on Turkish Cinema from Lambert and an edited book New Cinema, New Media from Cambridge Scholars. He is also currently serving as an executive member of ECREA.