Associate Professor Asli Telli holds a PhD in media and communications studies with a dissertation focusing on the changing nature of contemporary cities, urban spaces and digital spheres; published into a book, entitled, "The Infinite City: Politics of Speed". Before coming to Germany as a Research Associate at Locating Media Graduate Program of Uni-Siegen in 2017, she taught and advised college students as well as adult learners in the US, Switzerland, Malta and Turkey. Asli led a number of local and EU-funded projects in fields of political communication, STS, grassroots activism and scholarly dissent for 20 years. She has published widely in competent outlets on participatory cultures, knowledge commons, political communication and platform resistance. Her current fields of interest include exile knowledge workers as collaborative commons, digital platforms for dissent action and diaspora politics. She contributes to several recent projects, including “Issue Mapping as part of Critical Action Research” and "Design process for Decolonizing Digital Rights Field in Europe". Lately, she collaborates with her colleagues in reflecting on critical peace studies, knowledge commons and collaborative design for knowledge futures as part of her remote fellowship at WISER, Wits. For further info on her academic work: https://aslitelliaydemir.academia.edu/.

• Knowledge commons
• South-south cooperation and diaspora movements
• Community-led emancipation
• Critical-digital pedagogies
• Theory of change via participatory technologies

Papers

Telli, A. “Academic Freedom in Turkey: Limits, Barriers and Transnational Insurgencies”. Umkämpfte Wissenschaftsfreiheit (SH 14). BdWi/GEW/fzs/NGAWiss/OH co-edition. BdWi Verlag: Marburg, 2024

Telli, A.  Internationalisation nexus in European higher education: forced or intended?, The International Journal of Human Rights.2022, DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2022.2081158

Telli, A. co-edited with Cavdar, O. Theme editors. New Approaches in Communication Studies. Moment Journal, 7(2). 2020. ISSN: 2148-970X

Telli, A. „Fight or Flight: Voicing Dissent on Campus“. BdWi Wissenschaft von Rechts II. Studienheft 12. January 2020

Telli, A. No Platforming. Safe Campus and Ambivalent Twists on Freedom of Speech. In: Navigationen-Zeitschrift für Medien-und Kulturwissenschaften. Neue Rechte und Universität, Jg. 19 (2019), Nr. 2, S. 107–120. https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13821

Telli, A. Book Review: Akama, Yoko; Pink, Sarah; Sumartojo, Shanti. 2018. Uncertainty & Possibility: New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology. Bloomsbury Publishing. Manuscript ID SAAS-19-013-BR . Social Anthropology. Iss. 27/3. 2019

Telli, A. “Criminalizing Hope for Peace”. Forum Wissenschaft. issue 1/2019. Online edition: https://linksnet.de/artikel/47694

Telli, A. “Picnoleptic Horizons in the Knowledge Decade: Techno-creative communities in Turkey”, Culture and Communication. 18 (36), 2015.

Monograph

Upcoming (2025 summer): Telli, A. Digital Issue Mapping as Methodology for Critical Action Research. Peter Lang,  2025

Telli, A. The Infinite City: Politics of Speed. Dresden & New York: Atropos Press, 2009

Edited Books

Telli, A. Co-authored with Dogan, A.E. Nachdenken Mobile Soli-Akademie: Werkstätte 2017-2019. Interdictum Verlag GmbH: Berlin, Germany, 2020.

Telli, A. Editor. Politics of e-participation: Young People Online, Alternative Informatics Association, Istanbul, 2011 (Turkish with abstracts in English) https://www.stgm.org.tr/sites/default/files/2020-09/katilimin-e-hali-genclerin-sanal-alemi.pdf

Book Chapters

Upcoming (end of 2024):  Telli, A. “Journalism Exiled but Hopeful: Rewriting Narratives from the Margins”. Exiled Intellectuals: Encounters, Conflicts, and Experiences in Transnational Context vol 1, edited by Latife Akyüz, Hakan Altun, Eylem Cig and Melehat Kutun, Palgrave McMillan. https://www.isbn.de/ebook/9783031696183/exiled-intellectuals-encounters-conflicts-and-experiences-transnational-context

Upcoming (2025 spring): Telli, A. “Journalism Unchained: How One Believes in Free Press in the Future of the Past”. Imagining an Alternative Turkey: Mobilizing Resistance, Globalizing Publics, edited by Pieter Verstraete, Deniz Basar and Eylem Ejder, Palgrave McMillan.

Telli, A. "Towards structural responses to the displacement of scholars: The Mapping Funds project". Academics in Exile: Networks, Knowledge Exchange and New Forms of Internationalization, edited by Vera Axyonova, Florian Kohstall and Carola Richter, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022, pp. 181-202. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839460894-010