Erkan Saka is an associate professor of media and journalism studies at the School of Communication at Istanbul’s Bilgi University. He is currently a research scholar at Anthropology, UC Irvine (Fall 2018) and Science and Technology Studies, MIT (Spring 2019). His recent and current research topics include online information fact-checking and verification issues, business models for digital journalism, digital web archiving and internet histories, ethnography of cryptocurrency circles in Turkey. He is a long time political blogger (erkansaka.net) and a coordinator of a local TV show on social media (sosyalkafa.net).