Tuna Baskoy

Dr. Tuna Baskoy’s fields of research and teaching interests are research methods, statistics and computer applications, comparative public policy and administration with special focus on competition/antitrust and telecommunication policies, theories of capitalist market competition, political economy of European integration, e-government and e-democracy. He is currently completing a comparative study of extraterritorial enforcement of U.S. and E.U. competition/antitrust policies.

Tuna has been involved in the organizing committee of the 1st and 2nd International Conference on Social and Organizational Informatics and Cybernetics based in Orlando, Florida. A member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Dr. Baskoy is also a member of the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS), the European Community Studies Association-Canada (ECSA-C), and the Young Researchers Network – Canada (YRN).

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2014 - Anne Richardson; Major Research Paper: MAPATHY: A Revisualization of the Voter Turnout Decline at Canadian Federal Elections

2012 - James Loney; Major Research Paper: From Facebook to 'Placebook': A Critical Approach to Mobile Network Labour

2012 - Edward Millar; Major Research Paper: In Defense of Traditional Knowledge: The Cat of BT Brinjal and Challenges to the International Intellectual Property Agenda

2012 - Siobhan Ozege; Major Research Paper: Going Over-the-Top: Reassessing Canadian Cultural Policy Objectives in a Converged Media Environment

ComCult Teaching Activities

CC 8940 Political Economy of Culture and Communications

CC 8941 Issues in Communication and Cultural Policy