Short bio
I am a doctoral candidate in Cognitive Psychology group at the University of Konstanz. I am also a member of the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour. I studied Psychology (B.Sc.) at the Hacettepe University and Cognitive Science (M.Sc.) at the Middle East Technical University. My thesis focused on exploring the mechanisms of clickbait strategy through the lenses of psychology, linguistics, and computer science. My research interest is exploring embodied time perception and body perception through the application of virtual reality, behavioural experiments, and computational modelling. My current research focuses on investigating the temporal and self-referential dynamics during flow state, characterized by individuals becoming deeply absorbed in a task, as well as the collective flow, which emerges when a group of individuals engages in a shared task.
Publications
Articles
Genc, S., & Surer, E. (2023). ClickbaitTR: Dataset for clickbait detection from Turkish news sites and social media with a comparative analysis via machine learning algorithms. Journal of Information Science, 49(2), 480-499. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551521100774
Conference papers
Genc, S., & Surer, E. (2019, April). Detecting “Clickbait” News on Social Media Using Machine Learning Algorithms. In 2019 27th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) (pp. 1-4). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/SIU.2019.8806257
Posters
Genc, S., & Cakir, M. P. (2019). Using sequences of events to investigate the time as space metaphor. Poster session at the Exploring the Minds Eye: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Imagination. Ankara, Turkey.
Genc, S. (2019). Clickbait detection in social media. Poster session at the METU Multimedia Informatics GATEway’19. Ankara, Turkey.
Genc, S., & Surer, E. (2019). Detecting clickbait news on social media using machine learning algorithms. Presentation at the 27th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU). Sivas, Turkey.
Genc, S., & Surer, E. (2019). Detecting clickbait news on social media using machine learning algorithms. Poster session at the METU Informatics Institute Open Research Day. Ankara, Turkey.