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Talha
Işsevenler

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Education

B.A. Social and Political Sciences, Sabanci University

Ph.D. The Graduate Center, CUNY

Bio

Dr Issevenler's transdisciplinary work focuses on temporality across political culture, technology and philosophy.  

Courses Taught

Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of Violence, Urban Sociology, Political Sociology, Mass media and Popular Culture, Foundations of Social Theory, Macaulay Seminar 4: Shaping Future of New York City, Macaulay Seminar 2: Immigrants and Culture of New York City, Social Class in US, Senior Seminar: New media and Social Time, Sociology of Internet and Digital Media.

Honors and Awards

New Media Lab, The Dewey Digital Teaching Award

Research Summary

Dr. Issevenler's theoretical research focuses on relations of power emerging at the intersection of historical time and digital time. He recently finished an open-access text-book on political sociology. The book rethinks the sociology of state, social movements, political technologies and violence from the perspective of networked digital environments. He is also finishing a project on the impact of algorithms on learning by analyzing the paradigmatic example how the ancient game of Go is transcribed into artificial intelligence by Google's AlphaGo.