Associate Professor of TESOL & Applied Linguistics | Department of English @UofAlabama | Formerly @METU_ODTU & @UofMaryland | Tweets in English & Turkish
Tuscaloosa, AL
Joined January 2010
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What if the first thing AI language-learning platforms tell us is that we are not good enough?
In our new open-access article in @OUPAcademic's Applied Linguistics, Ozgehan Ustuk and I examine 385 ads targeting social media users across Meta’s platforms to pursue a simple Q:
We hope to complicate the ongoing AI hype, FOMO, and “revolution” talk by looking at a dimension that often gets less attention: advertising and marketing… After all, the narrative surrounding these platforms is being built one carefully targeted ad at a time.
📄 Decoding the marketing playbook of AI-powered language-learning platforms in Meta’s Ad Library
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/applin/amag0… | Open Access
#ArtificialIntelligence #AIinEducation #LanguageEducation #AppliedLinguistics #CriticalAI #EdTech #TESOL
🤖 Yapay zeka artık hayatımızın hemen her yerinde. Peki kamuoyu YZ'yı giderek fazla mı benimsiyor, yoksa biraz daha temkinli mi yaklaşıyor? Ozgehan Ustuk ve Zihan Xia ile 2022-2025 arasında eğitimde YZ konulu TED konuşmalarının sosyal medyada nasıl karşılandığını inceledik.
Eğitimde YZ'nın geleceğine ilişkin toplumsal vizyonlar, ebeveynleri, öğrencileri, öğretmenleri ve öğretmen eğitimini nasıl yeniden şekillendirecek? Etrafımızda hızla olup biten değişikliklere odaklanırken, geleceği şekillendirecek bu önemli soruyu da ıskalamamamız gerekiyor.
📄"Eğitimde Sosyoteknik Tahayyüller ve Yapay Zekanın Kabulü: Boylamsal bir Sosyal Medya Analizi"
(Computers in Human Behavior)
🔗Makaleye buradan ulaşabilirsiniz: doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2026.1…
#yapayzeka #EğitimdeYapayZeka #eğitimteknolojileri
Is the public becoming more accepting of AI in education or growing more cautious?
Our new article with Ozgehan Ustuk and Zihan Xia, just published in Computers in Human Behavior, explores social media engagement with AI in Education-related TED Talks posted between 2022 and 2025
So, the question then becomes: How will societal visions of the future of AI in education reshape parents, students, teachers, and teacher education? While we understandably focus on what is happening now, we also need to think more deeply and extensively about the future.
📝 Please see our article: “Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Acceptance of Artificial Intelligence in Education: A Longitudinal Social Media Analysis”
🔗 Read the article: doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2026.1…
#ArtificialIntelligence #AIinEducation #EdTech #TEDTalk #ComputersInHumanBehavior
It is always a HUGE pleasure and privilege to work with a brilliant group of scholars on a meaningful topic! Look forward to the #AAAL2027 Conference!
Delighted to share that our paper w/Ali Fuad Selvi, Dogan Yuksel, Ufuk Keleş & Özge Güney, “Who is to Blame? Digital Public Discourses of English Language Education Failure” has been accepted for presentation as an Individual Paper at #AAAL2027, to be held in Atlanta im March2027
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Meet our faculty, learn about the program, and get your questions answered...all from the comfort of home.
Wednesday, September 30 @ 12:00 PM (Central Standard Time) | Zoom
See you then!
#Türkiye’nin büyük umutlarla başlayıp hayal kırıklığıyla biten #Dünyakupası macerasını kafasından biraz olsun atmak isteyen var mı benim gibi? O zaman “#Turkey” nasıl “#Türkiye” oldu, gelin isterseniz ona bakalım.
nytimes.com/2026/06/25/world…
Bugünkü ABD maçı öncesinde @nytimes bu isim değişikliğinin hikâyesini anlatan bir makale yayımladı. Hoş bir sürpriz olarak, haberde yazılarımdan birine de yer vermişler.
Ülkenin isim değişikliğinin Dünya Kupası hedeflerinden daha başarılı olup olmadığını ise size bırakayım...
Göz atmak isterseniz, bu konudaki makalelerim:
#1 - NAMES: ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/artic…
#2 - Journal of Language and Politics: jbe-platform.com/.../10.1075…
#sociolinguistics #toponomy #nationbranding #publicdiplomacy #internationalrelations #softpower
Anyone (besides me) needs a distraction from Turkey's highly anticipated yet deeply disappointing #WorldCup campaign?
How about its recent name change from "#Turkey" to "#Türkiye"?
nytimes.com/2026/06/25/world…
Before tonight's #TurkeyVsUSA game, the @nytimes has a good explainer out on how that happened, which has a nice little bonus of drawing on some of my research for the story.
Whether the rebranding has been more successful than its #WorldCup ambitions… I’ll leave that one alone.