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Hande Eslen-Ziya, Professor

Department of Media and Social Sciences · University of Stavanger, Norway — Professor

Research Areas

  • Cultural Analysis
  • Media, Information and Communication Technology
  • Popular Culture
  • Social Media
  • Visual Communication

Highlighted publications

Yalcinoz-Ucan, B., and Eslen-Ziya, H. (2023). Disclosing gender-based violence online: strengthening feminist collective agency or creating further vulnerabilities?. Feminist Media Studies, 1-18.

Donato, S., Eslen-Ziya, H., & Mangone, E. (2022). From offline to online violence: new challenges for the contemporary society, International Review of Sociology. 11-25.

Eslen-Ziya, H. and Bjørnholt, M. (2022). Men’s rights activism and anti-feminist resistance in Turkey and Norway. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society.

Eslen-Ziya, H. (2022). Establishing networked misogyny as a counter movement: The analysis of the online anti-Istanbul Convention presence. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 1-17.

Eslen-Ziya, H. (2020). “Right-Wing Populism in New Turkey: Leading to all New Grounds for Troll-Science” in Gender Theory Special Collection Gender Justice, Health and Development, sub-edited by Prof. Cheryl Potgieter (DUT), in HTS Volume 76, Issue 3, 2020.

About

Hande Eslen-Ziya
University of Stavanger
Department of Media and Social Sciences
hande.eslen-ziya@uis.no

I am a Professor of Sociology at the University of Stavanger and an Honorary Research Associate with Gender Justice, Health, and Human Development at Durban University of Technology (2023–2026). I hold a PhD in Sociology from the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, an MA in Social Psychology from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and a Gender Specialization from Central European University, Budapest.

My research focuses on gender and social inequalities, transnational organizations, and social activism. I authored The Social Construction and Developmental Trajectories of Masculinities (2017) and Politics and Gender Identity in Turkey(2020, Routledge). I also co-edited The Aesthetics of Global Protest (Amsterdam University Press) and Populism and Science in Europe (2022, Palgrave Macmillan).

Currently, I am researching online harassment targeting academics and supervising a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow working on the digital tapestry of incel communities. Together, we explore their aesthetic practices and pathways to radicalization as part of my broader focus on online and digital cultures.