Research Article Co-Authored by Research Assistant Eylül Ezgi Türker Tatlı Published

The research article titled “The Ontology of the Viewer in 360° VR Film Narratives: From Philosophical Trajectory to Spectatorship,” co-authored by Eylül Ezgi Türker Tatlı, Research Assistant at the Department of Visual Communication Design, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Istanbul Gedik University, has been published.

The study, prepared under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Berceste Gülçin Özdemir, faculty member at Istanbul University Faculty of Communication, was produced within the scope of the “Cinema and Virtual Reality Technology” course, which was opened as part of a TÜBİTAK-supported project. The article was published in the 2026, Volume 4, Issue 1 of the Eurasian Journal of Media, Communication and Culture Studies.

The article examines the position of the viewer in 360° VR film narratives through the concepts of point of view, embodiment, hyperreality, and escape theory. Discussing the transformation created by VR technology in cinematic narrative structure and spectatorship experience from a philosophical perspective, the study reveals that 360° image technology transforms the viewer from a position of merely following the narrative into an embodied and perceptual subject situated within the narrative space.

The authors of the study are Assoc. Prof. Dr. Berceste Gülçin Özdemir, Res. Asst. Eylül Ezgi Türker Tatlı, Aleyna Zaim, Res. Asst. Şemi Umut Karataş, Emre Yalçın, and Rukiye Gümüş.

We congratulate our department member Ress. Asst. Eylül Ezgi Türker Tatlı and all the authors who contributed to the study, and wish them continued success in their academic work.