PhD Student, Sociology
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Yasemin Girgin is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology working at the intersection of economic sociology, culture, and labor markets. Her work examines how digitalization and audience segmentation shape market competition in creative industries.To learn more about
Yasemin’s research and publications, visit her webpage.
In Spring 2026, Yasemin was awarded a summer mini-grant which will support her research that builds an original archive of Turkish screen actors’ publicly visible everyday social media content and transforms it into a two-mode network of social affiliations to map how identity work, visibility, and market positioning are organized in a polarized creative labor market.