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Mehmet Ali Üzelgün is a Research Fellow in the Communication and Culture research group at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. He is also an Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, and an associate researcher at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research explores diverse discursive and rhetorical features of environmental communication, specifically focusing on climate change risks, transitions, and extreme weather events. He simultaneously works on the ethics of public discourse and argument, with a specific interest in the relationship between narrative and argumentative formats. He is a team member of the projects "JustFutures - Climate Futures and Just Transformations: Young People's Narratives and Political Imaginaries", and "EUMEPLAT - European Media Platforms". Coordinates the Portuguese participation in the international project "LiFi - Living with Wildfire: imagining, narrating and acting upon a changing climate".
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Mehmet Ali Üzelgün

Citation names

  • UZELGUN, MEHMET ALI
  • ÜZELGÜN, MEHMET ALI

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
111D-7542-8E35
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4426-9055
Google Scholar ID
MCi4884AAAAJ
Scopus Author Id
56073037500

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
  • Social Sciences - Media and Communications - Media and Socio-cultural Communication
  • Social Sciences - Psychology
  • Social Sciences - Media and Communications
  • Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences
  • Social Sciences - Sociology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
Turkish (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2014/11/14
Concluded
Social and Organizational Psychology (Doutoramento)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Science and rhetoric in a globalizing public sphere: Mediating systems of climate change knowledge and action" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Unanimously
2007/02/20
Concluded
Science and Technology (Policy) Studies (Mestrado)
Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey
1997/06/01
Concluded
Psychology (Licenciatura)
Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/12/01 - Current Auxiliary Researcher (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2017/02/01 - 2019/07/30 Postdoc (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
2015/12/15 - 2016/06/15 Postdoc (Research) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal
2014/06/01 - 2015/10/01 Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/09/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019/10/01 - 2020/06/30 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Ibn Haldun Üniversitesi, Turkey
Ibn Haldun Üniversitesi, Turkey

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2006/06/01 - 2007/09/01 Environmental Information Programme Officer Regional Environmental Center, Hungary
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/04/01 - Current Living with wildfire: Imagining, narrating and acting upon a changing climate
Invited Scientist Fellow
Ongoing
2021/04/01 - Current Climate Futures and Just Transformations: Young People's Narratives and Political Imaginaries
PTDC/COM-OUT/7669/2020_JUSTFUTURES_CM
Researcher
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/02/02 - 2023/03/01 European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Concluded
2019/02/01 - 2019/07/31 Values in Argumentative Discourse
FCSH/IFILNOVA/PTDC/MHC-FIL/0521/2014
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
Concluded
2017/02/01 - 2019/01/31 Ecological reasoning and decision making in innovation-oriented industry sectors at the periphery of Europe: Reconciling divergent values and interests
TUBITAK/0010/2014
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
Concluded
2017/09/01 - 2018/08/31 Nova Institute of Philosophy
UID/FIL/00183/2019
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2015/12/15 - 2016/06/15 Social memory of water-related trades and practices: local knowledge and climate change adaptation
PC1111
Post-doc Fellow
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/10/01 - Current European Media Platforms: Assessing Positive and Negative Externalities for European Culture
H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal

., Germany

New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria

Unione delle Università del Mediterraneo, Italy

Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de CatalunyaUOC, Spain

Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione, Italy

University of Gent, Belgium

Bilkent – Bilkent University Bilim Kenti, Turkey

National and Kapodistrian University, Greece

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy

International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development, Sweden

Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Comissão Europeia
Ongoing
2023/04/01 - 2027/03/31 Living with Wildfire: imagining, narrating and acting upon a changing climate
Dnr SU FV-320-0063-23
Principal investigator
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal

Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands

Linköpings Universitet, Sweden

Univeristy of Canberra, Australia

Stockholms universitet, Sweden
FORMAS - Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development
Ongoing
2022/03/29 - 2025/03/28 Futuros Climáticos e Transformações Justas: Narrativas e Imaginários Políticos dos Jovens
PTDC/COM-OUT/7669/2020
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas, Portugal

Universidade do Minho Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Center for Research and Social Intervention
UID/PSI/03125/2019
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Üzelgün, Mehmet Ali. "Portrayals of Climate Change and Drought in the Politically Oriented Turkish Press: Socialist, Islamist, and Nationalist Accounts of Extreme Weather in 2007 and 2014". In Climate Change in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Region, 169-184. Springer International Publishing, 2022.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-78566-6_8
  2. Castro, P.; Uzelgun, M. A.; Bertoldo, R.. "Climate change activism between weak and strong environmentalism: advocating social change with moderate argumentation strategies?". In The social psychology of everyday politics, 146-162. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2017.
    Published • 10.4324/9781315747460
  3. Uzelgun, M.; Ümit Sahin. "Climate Change Communication in Turkey". In Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication. Oxford University Press, 2016.
    Published • 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.466
Journal article
  1. Santos, Tânia R.; Üzelgün, Mehmet Ali; Carvalho, Anabela. "Reporting on Young Climate Activism: How Journalistic Multimodal Choices on Television Can Delegitimise Disruptive Dissent". Journalism Practice (2024): 1-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2433649.
    10.1080/17512786.2024.2433649
  2. Assimakis Tseronis; Ramy Younis; Mehmet Ali Üzelgün. "A proposal for the evaluation of multimodal argumentation". Journal of Argumentation in Context (2024): https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.00028.tse.
    10.1075/jaic.00028.tse
  3. Mehmet Ali Üzelgün; Hossein Turner; Rahmi Oruç; Goncagül Sahin. "Assessing coherence and fidelity". Narrative Inquiry (2024): https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.23053.uze.
    10.1075/ni.23053.uze
  4. Üzelgün, M. A. ; Giannouli, I.; Archontaki, I.; Odstrcilová, K.; Thomass, B.; Álvares, C.. "Transforming toxic debates towards European futures: Technological disruption, societal fragmentation, and enlightenment 2.0". Central European Journal of Communication 17 1(35) (2024): 82-102. https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/about.
    Published • 10.51480/1899-5101.17.1(35).711
  5. Tania R Santos; Mehmet Ali Üzelgün; Anabela Carvalho. "Young climate activists in television news: An analysis of multimodal constructions of voice, political recognition, and co-optation". The Communication Review (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2023.2251310.
    10.1080/10714421.2023.2251310
  6. Rahmi Oruç; Mehmet Ali Üzelgün; Karim Sadek. "Sequencing Critical Moves for Ethical Argumentation Practice: Muna¿ara and the Interdependence of Procedure and Agent". Informal Logic (2023): https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v43i1.7073.
    10.22329/il.v43i1.7073
  7. ÜZELGÜN, MEHMET ALI. "Reception of climate activist messages by low-carbon transition actors: argument evasion in the carbon offsetting debate". Argumentation and Advocacy (2021): 1-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511431.2021.1971381.
    10.1080/10511431.2021.1971381
  8. ÜZELGÜN, MEHMET ALI. "Argüman Analizinde Dört Yaklasim: Toulmin Modeli, Pragma-Diyalektik, Politik Söylem Analizi ve Argüman Kaynaklari Modelinin bir Karsilastirmasi". Connectist: Istanbul University Journal of Communication Sciences (2020): https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/1512182.
    10.26650/CONNECTIST2020-0666
  9. Üzelgün, Mehmet Ali; Pereira, João Rui. "Beyond the co-production of technology and society: The discursive treatment of technology with regard to near-term and long-term environmental goals". Technology in Society 61 (2020): 101244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2020.101244.
    Published • 10.1016/j.techsoc.2020.101244
  10. Lewinski, Marcin; Üzelgün, Mehmet Ali. "Environmental argumentation". Journal of Argumentation in Context 8 1 (2019): 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jaic.00004.int.
    Published • 10.1075/jaic.00004.int
  11. Rodrigues, Soledade; Lewinski, Marcin; Üzelgün, Mehmet Ali. "Environmental manifestoes: Argumentative strategies in the Ecomodernist Manifesto". Journal of Argumentation in Context 8 1 (2019): 12-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jaic.18036.rod.
    10.1075/jaic.18036.rod
  12. Uzelgun, M. A.; Lewinski, M.; Castro, P.. "Favorite battlegrounds of climate action: arguing about scientific consensus, representing science-society relations". Science Communication 38 6 (2016): 699-723. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1075547016676602.
    Published • 10.1177/1075547016676602
  13. Uzelgun, M.; Mohamed, D.; Lewinski, M.; Castro, P.. "Managing disagreement through yes, but… constructions: an argumentative analysis". Discourse Studies 17 4 (2015): 467-484. http://dis.sagepub.com/content/17/4/467.
    Published • 10.1177/1461445615578965
  14. Uzelgun, M. A.; Castro, P.. "Climate change in the mainstream Turkish press: coverage trends and meaning dimensions in the first attention cycle". Mass Communication and Society 18 6 (2015): 730-752. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15205436.2015.1027407.
    Published • 10.1080/15205436.2015.1027407
  15. UZELGUN, MEHMET. "Sosyal temsil çalismalari için sistematik bir yöntem olarak argüman analizi". Psikoloji Çalismalari (2015): http://www.journals.istanbul.edu.tr/iupcd/article/view/5000179495.
  16. Uzelgun, M. A.; Castro, P.. "The voice of science on climate change in the mainstream Turkish press". Environmental Communication 8 3 (2014): 326-344. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17524032.2014.898674.
    Published • 10.1080/17524032.2014.898674
Report
  1. ÜZELGÜN, MEHMET ALI ; Ioanna Archontaki; Iliana Giannouli; Klára Odstrcilová; Barbara Thomass; Dessislava Dankova; Cláudia Álvares. Corresponding author: ÜZELGÜN, MEHMET ALI. 2023. Assessing Externalities: Toxic Debate and Pluralistic Values. https://www.eumeplat.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/D5.3_Assessing-Externalities_Toxic-Debate-and-Pluralistic-Values.pdf.
  2. Moreno, J.; Sepúlveda, R.; Ferro-Santos, S.; Cardoso, G.; Álvares, Cláudia; Crespo, M.; Foá, C.; Üzelgün, M. A.. 2023. Platformisation of News in 10 Countries. https://www.eumeplat.eu/results/deliverables/.
  3. Üzelgün, M. A.. 2016. Iklim degisikligi ve medya.

Other

Dataset
  1. UZELGUN, MEHMET. Representing the End of the World: Climate Change as Science and Rhetoric in the Turkish Press.
    10.1037/e512742012-001
Other output
  1. Special Issue Editorial: Platformisation of News and Interactions – Regional Contexts of Crisis in Trust .. Observatorio (OBS*). 2024. Álvares, Cláudia; Üzelgün, M. A.. https://obs.obercom.pt/index.php/obs/article/view/2425.
    10.15847/obsOBS17520232425
  2. Ranking argumentative vices: towards a virtue argumentation approach based on dialectical rules. 10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA 2023). 2023. Üzelgün, M. A. ; Rahmi Oruç. https://ilias-argumentation.com/issa/.
  3. The multivoiced field of protest: creating and hindering political opportunities for young climate activists in the media. 17th Biennial Conference on Communication and the Environment. 2023. Santos, T. R.; Üzelgün, M. A. ; Carvalho, A..
  4. Dialogues with the absent other: how fishers in protected sites use the v ocabulary of citizenship for contesting the institutions governing them. III CHAM International Conference. 2017. Castro, P.; Üzelgün, M. A. ; Santos, T. R..
  5. Favourite battlegrounds of climate action: Representing and arguing about scientific evidence and consensus. 39th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology - ISPP. 2016. Üzelgün, M. A. ; Lewinski, M.; Castro, P..
  6. How do non-governmental experts deal with different approaches in governing climate change?. Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society. 2013. Üzelgün, M. A. ; Castro, P..
  7. Representing the end of the world: Climate change as science and rhetoric in the Turkish press. Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). 2011. Üzelgün, M. A. ; Castro, P..
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/07/05 Towards a proposal for the evaluation of multimodal argumentation: weighing criteria for effectiveness and norms for reasonableness in environmental campaign posters International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA 2023)
University of Leiden (Leiden, Netherlands)
2020/04 Contemporary incrementalism at work: How Portuguese low-carbon energy professionals negotiate long-term and short-term goals Reasons, Citizens and Institutions. International Conference on Argumentation and Public Policy
University of Wroclaw, CA17132 (Wroclaw, Poland)
2020/03 An extended practical reasoning approach to environmental discourse and policy: uses of the incrementalist governance agenda International Seminar on Environment and Society
Portuguese Association of Sociology (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/06 Objection from conscience: ethical appeal in parrhesiastic speech 3rd European Conference on Argumentation (ECA 2019)
University of Groningen (Groningen, Netherlands)
2018/07 Reception and rejection of complex argumentation: When one’s business practices are contested 9th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation
University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2018/02 Indicators of practical argumentation in ecological communication 2nd Argumentation and Language Conference
Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano (Lugano, Switzerland)
2017/11 Uses of argumentation in socio-political analyses
Ibn Haldun University (Istanbul, Turkey)
2017/10 Political uses and consequences of deep disagreements Media, Power and Identity: Discursive Strategies (JADIS VII)
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2017/06 Clash of worldviews in a polarized disagreement network: A proposal for the analysis of deep disagreements. Values in Argumentation, Values of Argumentation Conference
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/02 Surviving deep disagreements: The responsibility of media in overcoming Turkey’s intensifying political polarization Turkey at Critical Crossroads: Dynamic Trajectories For Society, Politics And Culture
University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/07 De-legitimizing contentious policies: Representation and argumentation in political debates The Good Society: Prospects for Reason, Communication and Well-being
International Society of Political Psychology (Warsaw, Poland)
2015/06 Dissociating between ‘is’ and ‘ought’: Recognizing and interpreting positions in climate change controversies 1st European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Reasoned Action
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2013/08 How do non-governmental experts deal with different approaches in governing climate change? Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society 2013
British Psychological Society (Exeter, United Kingdom)
2013/06 Lidando com visões opostas sobre alterações climáticas no contexto do consenso científico Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia
University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2012/06 Between radical pursuits and moderate commitments: Cognitive polyphasia in the climate change debate 11th International Conference on Social Representations
University of Evora (Evora, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/02/04 - Current Do Megafone para o Smartphone - O Discurso do Fridays for Future Brasil no Instagram e suas redes de sentidos
Supervisor of Viviane Vasconcelos Santa Rosa
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2023/01/19 - 2023/01/20 International Symposium on Argumentation and Debate: Traditional and Contemporary Practices (2023/01/19 - 2023/01/21)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Ibn Haldun Üniversitesi, Turkey
2017/05/04 - 2017/05/04 Workshop: Social Representations and Argumentation Half a day event with three presentations and a discussion session (2017/05/04 - 2017/05/04)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
2015/06/09 - 2015/06/12 1st European Conference on Argumentation International Scientific Conference (2015/06/09 - 2015/06/12)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2019 - Current European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis
Member
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2019/06/24 - 2019/06/27 3rd European Conference on Argumentation University of Groningen

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/09/01 - 2034/01/30 Comunicação para a Mudança Social Mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação (Ensino básico 2º ciclo) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2024/01/30 Metodologias em Ciências da Comunicação Metodologias em Ciências da Comunicação (Ensino básico 3º ciclo) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2023/02/01 - 2023/06/28 Retórica e Argumentação Retórica e Argumentação (Ensino básico 1º ciclo) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2020/01/29 - 2020/06 Spring 2020 - Language and Thinking Language and Thinking (Bachelor (1st cycle)) Ibn Haldun Üniversitesi, Turkey
2020/01/30 - 2020/05/31 Discourse Analysis - Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022 Discourse Analysis (Doktor (PhD)) Ibn Haldun Üniversitesi, Turkey
2020/01/29 - 2020/05/31 Postgraduate Thesis Seminar Thesis Seminar (Doctor of Philosophy) Ibn Haldun Üniversitesi, Turkey
2019/10/21 - 2020/01/19 Society, Ethics, Environment - Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022 Society, Ethics, Environment (Master) Ibn Haldun Üniversitesi, Turkey

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/12/01 - Current Environmental Communication Routledge Taylor&Francis
2018/05 - Current Environmental and Social Psychology (2424-7979) Whoice