Emre Alptekin

I have worked in the digital & e-commerce industry since 2006. I spent two years as Operations Team Leader at Magnet Digital, a leading web company in Turkey, overseeing three website projects with over 11 million users. From this, I joined the eBay family and worked for six years on the Kijiji project as the only contact in the Turkey office. After the project shut down, I have been recruited by GittiGidiyor, eBay Turkey as a Customer Insight Specialist, where I worked for 15 months and promoted later on to the Marketing department as a Content Specialist. After ten years in corporate life, I decided to have a change and started to work at an art studio in Yeldeğirmeni in Kadıköy. I become a professional ukulele teacher and street musician. At the art studio, I ran classes in ukulele and gathered together street musicians and professionals. During long hours playing in the hustle and bustle of central Istanbul, I had the chance to conduct my ethnographic investigation into the interactions between street music experiences and the general public thanks to my curiosity in sociology. I have undertaken a bachelors in the field of sociology and finished with an honorary degree. During my degree, I studied media sociology, social psychology, information society, information technology, public administration and recent human behaviour theories as well as social research methodologies. I continued my academical education within the University of Wroclaw, where I mostly specialized in the intercultural field. I graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences and defended my MA thesis successfully, which was about the cross-cultural adaptation process of music-maker foreigns in a new society. Recently, I am working on my PhD dissertation under the supervision of dr hab. prof. Elżbieta Opiłowska to acquire and produce further information on both cross-cultural and intercultural fields. Specialities: Sociology of music, Intercultural mediation, Conflict management, Cross-cultural competence, Intercultural communication, Corporate communications, Social media, Organizational Behaviours, Reporting, User Experience Analysis, Consumer Insights Analysis and various Interactional Actions.