I am a Postdoctoral Researcher working with Hallvard Moe on the PREPARE project. I have completed my PhD at the University of Southampton, which explored the use of Twitter by microcelebrity accounts dissenting against the authoritarian leaning Turkish government during the 2018 Turkish Elections. In the past, I have collaborated with academics and NGOs on several research projects that explored personalisation, health communication and community building on a variety of social media platforms. I have been teaching social media and digital research methods at various universities since 2015 and have designed training sessions for researchers on how to use tools to analyse and scrape data. I have also been serving as the elected Graduate Student Representative for the Association of Internet Researchers since 2021.

Academic article

• Lokot, Tetyana; Demirkol Tönnesen, Naciye Özlem; Rodriguez-Amat, Joan Ramon (2024). Revolutions: an introduction to the #AoIR2023 special issue. (external link)
• Zhao, Xin; Feigenbaum, Anna; Demirkol Tönnesen, Naciye Özlem (2024). Between Comments and Collective Action: The Potential of TikTok in Endometriosis Advocacy. (external link)

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

• Feigenbaum, Anna; McDougall, Julian; Demirkol Tönnesen, Naciye Özlem (2024). Infocomics vs Infodemics: How Comics Utilise Health, Data and Media Literacies. (external link)

Interview

• Lofstad, Ralf; Tönnesen, Özlem Demirkol (2023). Valg i Tyrkia - Folk er Redde. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Eg, R., Tønnesen, Ö.D. and Tennfjord, M.K., 2023. A scoping review of personalized user experiences on social media: The interplay between algorithms and human factors. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 9, p.100253.

Demirkol Tonnesen, N.O., 2022. Hiding dissent in plain sight: Political participation of microcelebrity accounts on Turkish Twitter (Doctoral dissertation, University of Southampton).

Tonnesen, N.O.D., 2021. PERCEIVED INTERCONNECTEDNESS AND THE DEPENDENCE ON AMBIENT CONTEXT ON TWITTER DURING ELECTIONS. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.

Tonnesen, N.O.D., 2020. “TWO CAN PLAY AT THAT GAME”: COMMUNICATING DISSENT AS A MICRO-CELEBRITY IN A RESTRICTED NATIONAL TWITTERSPHERE. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.

Chughtai, H., Myers, M., Young, A.G., Borsa, T., Cardo, V., Demirkol, O., Morgan, C., Morton, S., Prior, C., Wilkin, J. and Young, E., 2020. Demarginalizing interdisciplinarity in IS research: Interdisciplinary research in marginalization. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 46(1), pp.296-315.

Feigenbaum, A., Thorsen, E., Weissmann, D. and Demirkol, O., 2016. Visualising data stories together: Reflections on data journalism education from the Bournemouth University Datalabs Project. Journalism Education, 5(2), pp.59-74.