In December, we will be admitting a small number of doctoral students into our program.The program is suitable for research at the intersection of issues related to design, technology and society (see details in http://dts.ku.edu.tr). Important Dates for 2013 Fall (PhD Program only) October 25 th, 2013 is the last day for negotiation appointments with faculty members December 27th,… Read more

A few weeks ago, when information about the National Security Agency’s (U.S.) phone surveillance program surfaced, the U.S. President Obama was quick to announce that “nobody is listening to your telephone calls”. It was rather a little “harmless” system that collected metadata about individuals’ phone calls. We have been hearing similar claims about electronic surveillance… Read more

The abstract and a copy of the presentation that we (Mihaela Popescu & Lemi Baruh) made in IAMCR conference in Dublin are available below. The paper introduces the concept of “awareness paradox” to discuss privacy literacy in an era of Big Data analytics. Thanks to all listeners for their responses and questions. The full paper… Read more

1 song per year since 2008. Definitely poor productivity… I blame work. And the output is a new compilation containing 5 new songs. The compilation, entitled Streaming Senseless is now available on my music page and on SoundCloud The songs are licensed under a are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Please listen to… Read more
We are looking for candidates for PhD and MA studentships at the Design, Technology, and Society program at Koc University for two projects. Online Socialization and Social Media Investigators: Lemi Baruh, PhD, email: lbaruh[at]ku.edu.tr & Zeynep Cemalcılar, PhD, email: zcemalcilar[at]ku.edu.tr The candidates will become a member of new research team that studies online socialization, interpersonal… Read more
Koç University, Department of Media and VisualArts, invites applications for part-time instructor and full-time faculty positions of any rank (beginning September 2013). At the time of employment, qualified full-time position candidates should have a PhD or equivalent degree, and part-time instructor candidates should have a minimum MFA or equivalent degree. Areas of specialization are open, but… Read more
Greetings from Brisbane, Australia. This is Lemi Baruh.
Here is what I look like.

Image courtesy of Ekin Yay, from Koç University in Istanbul. If interested in seeing other Koç University faculty members in typortrait form, click here.
I am a Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. I am also an affiliate Associate Professor of the Department of Media and Visual Arts at Koç University.


