Ali Ergur is born in Athens in 1966. He studied public administration and social sciences at Marmara University, and sociology (PhD) at Middle East Technical University. His main domains of academic interest are sociology of communication and information, technology, surveillance, postindustrial society, consumption, economic elites and sociology of culture. A second field of research of Ali Ergur is sociology of music. He is particularly interested in the process of modernization of Turkish music. He published scientific articles in collaboration with musicologists as well as several essays on the transformation of musical expressions, forms and styles. He is actually professor at the Department of Sociology at Galatasaray University, Istanbul.

Ali Ergur is born in Athens in 1966. He studied public administration and social sciences at Marmara University, and sociology (PhD) at Middle East Technical University. His main domains of academic interest are sociology of communication and information, technology, surveillance, postindustrial society, consumption, economic elites and sociology of culture. A second field of research of Ali Ergur is sociology of music. He is particularly interested in the process of modernization of Turkish music. He published scientific articles in collaboration with musicologists as well as several essays on the transformation of musical expressions, forms and styles. He is actually professor at the Department of Sociology at Galatasaray University, Istanbul.

Ali Ergur is born in Athens in 1966. He studied public administration and social sciences at Marmara University, and sociology (PhD) at Middle East Technical University. His main domains of academic interest are sociology of communication and information, technology, surveillance, postindustrial society, consumption, economic elites and sociology of culture. A second field of research of Ali Ergur is sociology of music. He is particularly interested in the process of modernization of Turkish music. He published scientific articles in collaboration with musicologists as well as several essays on the transformation of musical expressions, forms and styles. He is actually professor at the Department of Sociology at Galatasaray University, Istanbul.