Can Türe is a research assistant at Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Film & TV and a Ph.D. candidate at the Middle East Technical University, specializing in the changing character of long-term social movements in the age of network communication. With an interdisciplinary background in communication and political science, his research focuses on online social movements, digital activism, Turkish politics and media as well as First Amendment Studies. He authored a book, Rethinking Public Services, published in Turkish in 2014 . He is currently a DAAD doctoral fellow at CCRD.