Şebnem Baran

Şebnem Baran received her doctorate in cinema and media studies at the University of Southern California in 2018. Before coming to the University of Southern California, where Baran also minored in communication during her doctoral education, she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in political science and international relations at Boğaziçi University in Turkey. Baran’s dissertation, “Whose Quality Is It?:
 Transnational TV Flows and Power in the Global TV Market,” explores how Anglo-American quality programming standards are claiming more importance in the post-streaming era. Her research interests include television studies, global television markets, media industries, online streaming, TV formats, and audience and fan studies. Baran teaches courses on the global history of television, media industries, online streaming, genres, fan studies, and the theories and methods of film and media studies.