Project Title: "Developing guidelines for screen media for preschool children in Turkey" 

Funded by the British Council ISPF International Research Empowerment Programme

Project Start Date: September 2025

Duration: 18 Months 

Project Title: Strengthening Children’s Resilience Against Information Disorders: Developing a Rights-Based and Participatory Intervention Model

TÜBİTAK 3005 – Support Program for Research Projects on Innovative Solutions in Social and Human Sciences

Bilgiç, Esra Ercan (2024). Turkish media coverage of children’s relation to the digital world: From “moral panic” to the recognition of opportunities and rights. Global Studies of Childhood - Themed Issue on the contrasting role of online and digital media in children and youth civic participation, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/204361... (Online first, July 2024; Print Volume 14 Number (4) December 2024)

Yanardağoğlu, E., & Ercan Bilgiç, E. (2024). How the Pandemic Shaped the Digital Skills of Journalists in Turkey. Journalism Practice, 1–19. (March, 2024) https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2324336

Bilgiç, Esra Ercan, (2020). The Image of Turkish Women as the Antithesis of the Ottoman Past: Representations of Women in the Newspapers of the Early Republican Era, International Journal of Communication 14(2020), 5463–5481 

Bilgiç, Esra Ercan, Raoul Boers, Lars Rinsdorf, Robert W.Vaagan, (2012). “From Convergence to Connectivism: Teaching Journalism 2.0,” Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, no. 4, (2012), pp: 52-64. 

Bilgiç, Esra Ercan. (2005). “The Representation of Islam in the UK National Dailies,”Yeditepe Journal of Communication Studies, Fall (2005), pp.73-84. 

Bilgiç, Esra Ercan (forthcoming in late 2026). The Domestic Sphere as the Periphery: Academic Mothers' Experiences in the Mediatized Household During the Pandemic. In (Eds, Cansu Koç, Ezgi Altınöz & Yusuf Yüksekdağ) Communication Studies from the Periphery: Ways of Being and Doing. Routledge.

Bilgiç, Esra Ercan, & Clark, Lynn Schofield (2024). Using autoethnography and interviewing for researching child and parent audiences in Turkey. In (Eds. Annette Hill & Peter Lunt) The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences. Pp: 560-571 London: Sage

Bilgiç, Esra Ercan, (2023). Dijital Çağda Çocuk Hakları, Yeni Medya ve Aile. (Ed. Gökmen Karadağ, Dijital Okumalar. Istanbul: Nobel: Mart 2023

Bilgiç, Esra Ercan, (2015). “‘İyi Yeni’ ‘Kötü Eski’ Retoriğinde İkili Karşıtlıklar”. In (Eds. Kemal İnal,Nuray Sancar and Ulaş B. Gezgin) Marka Takva Tuğra AKP Döneminde Kültür ve Politika,. Istanbul: Evrensel.

Bilgiç, Esra Ercan, (2014). “Kemalist İktidar ve Basın: 1919-1934”. In Medya ve İktidar Hegemonya Statüko Direniş. In (Eds. Esra Arsan and Savaş Çoban). Istanbul: Evrensel.

Bilgiç, Esra Ercan. (2023). Erken Çocukluk Dönemi Eğitimine Yönelik Farkındalık Yaratmayı Hedefleyen İletişim Çalışmaları Durum Analizi Raporu. Erken Çocukluk Eğitim Hizmetlerinin (EÇE) Kalitesinin ve Erişimin Artırılması  Projesi, MEB & UNICEF & INGEV. Mayıs 2023

Bilgiç, Esra Ercan and Zehra Kafkaslı, (2013). Gencim, Özgürlükçüyüm, Ne İstiyorum?: #direngeziparkı Anketi Sonuç Raporu. Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Publications. 

Ercan, Esra and Okan Tanşu, (2002). Cem Uzan ve Genç Parti Olgusu. Konrad  Adenauer Vakfı Türkiye Raporu, Nr: 08-2002. Ankara 

Bilgiç, Esra Ercan, (2017). The Role of the Mainstream Newspapers in the Consolidation of the Turkish National Identity: 1934-1937. Istanbul: Libra 

Bilgiç, Esra Ercan, (2008). Vatan, Millet, Reyting Televizyon Haberlerinde Milliyetçilik. Istanbul: Evrensel 

Global Campus of Human Rights - MOOC - Children's Rights and Technology in the Digital Age