Media and Culture

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 ... [more info]