Defne Över is a political sociologist interested in the study of political institutions, social movements, national identities, and human rights. She earned her PhD from the Department of Sociology of Cornell University, USA, her MA from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, and her BA from Boğaziçi University, Turkey. Över’s current work centers on a set of important questions raised by the return of repressive regimes and mass mobilization in the 21st century. In her book, she explores changing political, economic and cultural contexts of the decay in journalism both as a profession and a medium of the democratic process in Turkey. In two other comparative projects, she focuses on high courts’ freedom of expression decisions and success of populist parties.