Sırrı Emrah Üçer, born in Istanbul in 1981, graduated from Vefa Lisesi in 1999. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University in 2003. He furthered his education by completing a master's program in International Relations from the Faculty of Political Sciences at Istanbul University in 2008. In 2018, he successfully finished his doctoral studies in the field of Modern Turkish History at the Atatürk Institute of Boğaziçi University.

Since 2009, he has been actively engaged as a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. His primary research interests encompass the fields of economics and history.

In July 2023, Üçer was awarded the title of Associate Professor in the field of Economic Thought by the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) in Turkey. For more details about Üçer's academic profile according to YÖK, please refer to: http://bit.ly/3cTIvP8 

Erkan Saka is a professor of media and journalism studies in the Media Department at Istanbul Bilgi University. He is the author of Social Media and Politics in Turkey. A Journey through Citizen Journalism, Political Trolling, and Fake News (Lexington Books, 2019) and "Big Data and gender-biased algorithms" In The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication. New York: Wiley Blackwell

Emel Ozdora-Aksak is an associate professor at the Department of Communication and Design at Bilkent University, Ankara Turkey. She received her Ph.D in Mass Communication from the University of Florida in 2009 and worked for United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Turkey Country Office as a communication specialist before transferring back to an academic career. Her research interests include organizational communication, corporate social responsiblity, public relations,and social advocacy. She has received two research grants from the Arthur Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication on refugees, framing and advocacy. She is currently working on a research project funded by Chicago University on healthcare provision to refugee and migrant communities in Turkey. Her research has been published in Discourse and Communication, Public Relations Review, American Behavioral Scientist, Voluntas, and Business Ethics: A European Review.