İHÜ Araştırma ve Akademik Performans Sistemi
DSpace@İHÜ, İbn Haldun Üniversitesi’nin bilimsel araştırma ve akademik performansını izleme, analiz etme ve raporlama süreçlerini tek çatı altında buluşturan bütünleşik bilgi sistemidir.
Güncel Gönderiler
Uncovering the hijab among Turkish women: The impact of social media and an analysis through social and cultural capital
(MDPI, 2025) Uzunoğlu Saçmalı, Feyza; Baynal, Fatma; İslami İlimler Fakültesi, Temel İslam Bilimleri Bölümü
In the digital age, social media platforms homogenize beauty standards and intricately link clothing choices to social norms and class identities. Grounded in Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of cultural and social capital, supplemented by Erving Goffman’s theory of stigma, this study examines how social media amplifies pre-existing socio-cultural pressures that influence Turkish women’s decisions to abandon the hijab. The research has practical implications for understanding and addressing hijab abandonment. It employs a qualitative design based on semi-structured interviews with 13 participants, analyzed through a phenomenological approach. The findings reveal that the pursuit of social acceptance and resistance to social exclusion are more decisive factors in hijab abandonment than direct social media influence. While social media serves as a crucial amplifier of aesthetic ideals and a gateway to digital legitimacy, the primary drivers are deeply rooted in the pursuit of social acceptance and resistance to long-standing mechanisms of socio-cultural exclusion, stigmatization, and symbolic violence—processes intensified and mediated through digital platforms. The analysis uncovers the operation of a dual-sided neighborhood pressure, whereby women face scrutiny from both religious communities enforcing idealized piety norms and secular circles perpetuating stigmatizing labels such as backwardness or ignorance. Crucially, participants reported that unveiling was strategically employed as a means of overcoming barriers to professional advancement, gaining access to elite social spheres, and escaping the constant burden of representation. The study concludes that hijab abandonment emerges as a complex strategy of social navigation, where digital platforms act as powerful accelerants of pre-existing class- and identity-based conflicts.
Community as sanctuary: Reentry experiences of formerly incarcerated Muslims
(Routledge, 2025) Yanık, İbrahim Emre; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Sosyoloji Bölümü
This ethnographic study explores the experiences of formerly incarcerated Muslims returning to a small city in upstate New York, highlighting their journey of navigating profound habitus changes, lingering disciplinary behaviors from prison, and the welcoming embrace of local faith communities. Drawing on six months of participant observation and interviews with Imams, chaplains, and congregants at a local masjid, the research identifies four core themes. First, chaplains serve as crucial “liminal figures,” bridging highly structured prison life and less regulated community contexts. Second, while institutional routines like “count time” reflexes persist, they represent a starting point from which new habits are formed. Third, the shift from carceral routines to unstructured social environments presents an opportunity for growth and adaptation, supported by the faith community. Finally, Imams and the mosque community play a pivotal role in this transition, providing spiritual guidance, practical resources, and a powerful sense of belonging that fosters successful reintegration. Integrating multiple theoretical frameworks, this study highlights the promise of holistic, culturally sensitive reentry initiatives that empower returning citizens by addressing both material needs and the profound psychological journey of post-incarceration life.
The AI learning paradox: Balancing educational benefits and digital dependence
(Şahin ORUÇ, 2025) Nazir, Thseen; Yılmaz, Zeynep Esra; Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi, Rehberlik ve Psikolojik Danışmanlık Bölümü
As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms higher education and universities are increasingly adopting AI-driven tools to personalize learning, streamline administration, and enhance student engagement. However, this integration presents a paradox: while AI promises to improve educational outcomes, it also risks deepening students’ digital dependency. This paper explores how AI features like persuasive design and data-driven personalization can unintentionally foster compulsive behaviors and cognitive overload. Drawing on theories such as Cognitive Load Theory and Surveillance Capitalism, it critiques how AI may mirror the addictive patterns of social media and entertainment technologies. The paper proposes a balanced approach to AI integration, recommending the adoption of mindful design principles, digital well-being policies, and ethical guidelines that prioritize student mental health alongside academic performance. It concludes by urging educators, policymakers, and developers to collaboratively design AI systems that enhance learning while safeguarding students’ well-being and autonomy.
Digital postcolonialism in Africa and class debates: Protoproletariat or pooriat?
(Sakarya Üniversitesi, 2025) Yılmaz, Özgür
This study explores the concept of digital postcolonialism, analyzing how digital economies perpetuate colonial dynamics and deepen global inequalities. Digital colonialism, much like historical colonialism, exerts control over developing regions through monopolistic ownership of digital infrastructure, data, and platforms by tech giants primarily located in the global North. By examining the labour conditions of digital workers, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, this study highlights the emergence of a “digital blue-collar” workforce facing precarious, low-wage conditions dictated by platform algorithms. Through the introduction of the concept “pooriat,” the study underscores the severe poverty and dependency that characterize this workforce, reflecting a new form of economic subjugation in the digital age. These conditions reinforce a digital hierarchy, where peripheral regions provide labour and data without fair compensation or control, paralleling colonial resource extraction. The study also discusses the potential of alternative frameworks, such as platform socialism, to challenge these power imbalances by democratizing control over digital infrastructures. This research contributes to the discourse on global inequality, digital dependency, and socio-economic restructuring, emphasizing the need for a more equitable digital economy.
Relation between climate change and gender: The case of Africa
(Balıkesir Üniversitesi, 2025) Yılmaz, Özgür
This study examines how climate change disproportionately affects women, focusing on the African region, where economic and gender inequalities are most visible. The research aims to explore the reasons behind why disadvantaged groups, particularly women, are more affected by climate change. Using a news narrative analysis method, the study considers news texts as primary sources that reflect social perceptions and facts. This method helps analyse how climate change and gender inequality are portrayed in both local and international media. The research concentrates on countries around the Sahara Desert, known as Sahel Region. These countries face severe impacts from climate change, including drought, floods, soil poisoning, rising temperatures, and desertification, which affect the agriculture and livestock sectors where women are predominantly employed. As a result, women experience compounded effects of gender and economic inequalities. The study is divided into four parts: concepts, methodology, findings and discussion. It uses a feminist political ecology approach to understand how climate change intersects with gender, race, and class dynamics. The findings reveal that women, who already face global inequality, are further burdened by climate change in the African context. The study suggests that Turkish academia should conduct more research on climate change and gender inequality in Africa and recommends practical solutions such as afforestation projects to combat desertification in the region.
