publications

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2914-2489

Monographs

Şahinol, M., Taşdizen, B., & Başkavak, G. (2022). Hair:y_less Masculinities. A Cartography. Bonn: Şahinol, Melike (in cooperation with perspectivia.net). Freely accessible: https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2022-00000

Şahinol, Melike (2016). “Das techno-zerebrale Subjekt. Zur Symbiose von Mensch und Maschine in den Neurowissenschaften”. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.

Edited Volumes

Stock, R., Meier zu Verl, C., Şahinol, M., Spöhrer, M., Volmar, A., Wagenknecht, A., & Wiechern, A.-L. (Eds.). (2025). Dis/Ability und digitale Medien. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Technologien, Praktiken und Zugänglichkeiten. Springer Nature.

Öncüler Yayalar, E., & Şahinol, M. (Eds.). (2024). Science, technology and society for a post-truth age: Comparative dialogues on reflexivity. Vernon Press.

Aydınoğlu, A. U., Kılıçtepe, Ş., Öncüler Yayalar, E., Saka, E., & Şahinol, M. (Eds.). (2023). STS: Bir Disiplin Olarak Kimlik İnşası. Ankara: Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi Yayınları. (Open access: https://neuyayin.com/tr/acik-erisim/sts-bir-disiplin-olarak-kimlik-insasi/816).

Şahinol, M., Coenen, C., & Motika, R. (2020). Upgrades der Natur, künftige Körper: Interdisziplinäre und internationale Perspektiven. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien.

Turanlı, A., Şahinol, M. & Aydınoğlu, A. U. (2020). Türkiye’de STS: Bilim ve Teknoloji Çalışmalarına Giriş. Istanbul: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi (Open Access: https://polen.itu.edu.tr/handle/11527/18483).

Special Issues in peer reviewed journals (as guest editor)

Compagna, D., Şahinol, M. (Eds.) (2022). Manufacturing Life (Part 2). Special Section in NanoEthics Studies of New and Emerging Technologies, Volume 16, issue 2, August 2022, pp 195–238. https://link.springer.com/journal/11569/volumes-and-issues/16-2.

Compagna, D. & Şahinol, M. (Eds.) (2022). Manufacturing Life (Part 1). Special Section in NanoEthics Studies of New and Emerging Technologies, Volume 16, issue 1, April 2022, pp 15–150. https://link.springer.com/journal/11569/volumes-and-issues/16-1.

Şahinol, M. & Başkavak, G. (2021). Türkiye’de Çekişmeli Bedenler: Tıp Teknolojisindeki Gelişmelerle Dönüşen Beden, Sağlık ve Toplum (engl. Contested Bodies in Turkey: Transformation of Body, Health and Society through Techno-Medical Innovations) Special Issue in Sosyoloji Araştırmaları Dergisi/ Journal of Sociological Research.

Journal Articles (peer reviewed)

Başkavak, G., Şahinol, M., & Kılıçtepe, Ş. (2024). INTERPLAY OF GLOBAL TECHNOLOGICAL DYNAMICS AND LOCAL REALITIES: DIGITAL HEALTHCARE TRANSFORMATION IN TURKEY. Trakya Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 26(1), 91-118. https://doi.org/10.26468/trakyasobed.1369225

Özkan, Ö., Şahinol, M., Aydinoglu, A.U. et al. Reflections on Turkish Personal Data Protection Law and Genetic Data in Focus Group Discussions. Nanoethics (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-022-00431-0

Şahinol, M. (2022), “3D printed children’s prostheses as enabling technology? The experience of children with upper limb body differences”, Journal of Enabling Technologies, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp. 204-218. https://doi.org/10.1108/JET-02-2022-0017

Compagna, D., Şahinol, M. Enhancement Technologies and the Politics of Life: Interfaces of Art and Science. Nanoethics 16, 195–196 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-022-00420-3

Okay, A.M., Taşdizen, B., McKinnon Bell, C.J., Topdal B.D., Şahinol, M. Cyborg Encounters: Three Art-Science Interactions. Nanoethics 16, 223–238 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-022-00423-0

Bieling, T., Şahinol, M., Stock, R. and Wiechern, A. (2022), “Access and tinkering: designing assistive technologies as political practice–A discussion with Zeynep Karagöz, Thomas Miebach and Daniel Wessolek”, Journal of Enabling Technologies, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp. 231-242. https://doi.org/10.1108/JET-01-2022-0005

Şahinol, M., Şahinol, M. “VULVA STUDY. hidden but not undiscovered” in Conversation with “Manufacturing the Vulva”. Nanoethics 16,205–222 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-022-00421-2

Compagna, D., Şahinol, M. Enhancement Technologies and the Politics of Life. Nanoethics 16, 15–20 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-022-00416-z

Şahinol, M. (2021). Living in the Age of Neuro-Digitalization. Brain-Computer Interfaces for Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, 8 (Being Human in a Technological Age), 53-80. doi:10.1628/ptsc-2021-0005

Şahinol, M., & Taşdizen, B. (2021). Medicalised Masculinities in Turkey and Iran: The Eigensinn of Hair in Hair Transplantation. Somatechnics, 11(1), 48-67. doi:10.3366/soma.2021.0339

Şahinol, M., Başkavak, G. Contested Daily Routines, Contested Care. Children with Type 1 Diabetes in Covid-19 Times. Childhood Vulnerability (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41255-021-00017-0

Şahinol, M., & Başkavak, G. (2021). Sosyo-Biyo-Teknik Bakım Kompleksi: Tip 1 Diyabette Dijital Sağlık Takibi [Socio-Bio-Technical Care Complex: Digital Health Tracking In Type 1 Diabetes]. Sosyoloji Araştırmaları Dergisi [Journal of Sociological Research] 24(1), 110-145 (open access).

Şahinol, M., & Başkavak, G. (2021). Türkiye’de Çekişmeli Bedenlere Giriş [Introduction to Contested Bodies in Turkey]. Sosyoloji Araştırmaları Dergisi [Journal of Sociological Research] 24(1), 1-17 (open access).

Şahinol, M. (2019). Collecting Data and the Status of the Research Subject in Brain-Machine Interface Research in Chronic Stroke Rehabilitation. In: Somatechnics 9.2-3 (2019): 244–263, Edinburgh University Press.

Book chapters (peer reviewed)

Şahinol, M., & Taşdizen, B. (2022). İnsan Sonrası Erkek(lik): Saç Ekimi Örneği. In S. Buran & P. Kumbet (Eds.), Çokludisiplinlerde Posthümanizm (pp. 443-456). London, UK: Transnational Press London.

Şahinol, M. (2022). İnsan Sonrası Siborg Aşkı Çerçevesinde İnsan-Makine Etkileşimi. In S. Buran & P. Kumbet (Eds.), Çokludisiplinlerde Posthümanizm (pp. 403-423). London, UK: Transnational Press London.

Şahinol, M. (2021). eHealth Applications in Knowledge Landscapes. In A. L. Svalastog, S. Gajović, & A. Webster (Eds.), Navigating Digital Health Landscapes: A Multidisciplinary Analysis (pp. 193-221). Health, Technology and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. (online first 2020).

Şahinol, M. (2020). My Cyborg Performance as a Techno-Cerebral Subject. In  Chris Hables Gray, Steven Mentor & Heidi Figueroa Sarriera (Eds.), Modified: Living as a Cyborg (pp. 197-211). Routledge.

Journal Articles

Şahinol, M., & Achatz, J. (2021). Digitale Selbstvermessung im türkischen Gesundheitssystem. Zugluft. Öffentliche Wissenschaft in Forschung, Lehre und Gesellschaft(1), 96-101.

Şahinol, M., Aydınoğlu, A., & Kaygan, H. (2018). STS (in) Turkey as Extitution. EASST Review, 37(1).

Bottel, M., Gajewski, E., Potempa, C., Şahinol, M., & Schulz-Schaeffer, I. (2016). Offshoring und Outsourcing von Arbeitstätigkeiten, insbesondere von Telearbeit und Tätigkeiten der Softwareentwicklung. Ein Literaturbericht. Working Papers TU Berlin, 1.

Şahinol, M. (2008). Groß-sozio-technische Systeme im Mikro-Makro-Modell: Technikgenese in sozialen Netzwerken und die Interdependenzen von Akteursstrategien und Technikentwicklung am Beispiel des inHaus Duisburg. Working Papers kultur- und techniksoziologische Studien, 3, 4-35.

Book chapters

Şahinol, M. (2023). Sakatlık Teknobilimi ve Posthüman Sakatlık. In B. Ağın & Z. G. Yılmaz (Eds.), Beşerî Bilimlerin 50 Rengi. Çevreci, Dijital, Tıbbi ve Posthüman Sesler (pp. 431-439). Mustafapaşa, Ürgüp / Nevşehir: Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları.

Öncüler Yayalar, E., & Şahinol, M. (2023). Bilim ve Teknoloji Çalışmaları. In B. Ağın & Z. G. Yılmaz (Eds.), Beşerî Bilimlerin 50 Rengi. Çevreci, Dijital, Tıbbi ve Posthüman Sesler (pp. 85-92). Mustafapaşa, Ürgüp / Nevşehir: Kapadokya Üniversitesi Yayınları.

Şahinol, M. (2020). Posthumane Cyborgliebe. Die Anpassung des menschlichen Körpers an maschinelle Angebote im sexuellen Bereich. In Oliver Bendel (Ed.), Maschinenliebe. Liebespuppen und Sexroboter aus technischer, psychologischer und philosophischer Perspektive (pp. 147-162). Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.

Şahinol, M. (2020). Enabling-Technologien zwischen Normalität und Enhancement: 3D-gedruckte Prothesen für Kinder von Maker*innen. In M. C. Bauer & L. Deinzer (Eds.) Bessere Menschen? Technische und ethische Fragen in der transhumanistischen Zukunft (pp. 159-182). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Şahinol, M., Başkavak, G. (2020). Türkiye’de Biyomedikalizasyon: Sağlığın Dijitalleşmesi ve Öz-Takip Pratikleri. In A. Turanlı, A. U. Aydınoğlu & M. Şahinol  (Eds.), Türkiye’de STS: Bilim ve Teknoloji Çalışmalarına Giriş (pp. 103-117). Istanbul: İTÜ.

Şahinol, M., Coenen, C., & Motika, R. (2020). Einleitung. In Şahinol, M., Coenen, C., & Motika, R. (Eds.), Upgrades der Natur, künftige Körper (1 ed., pp. V-XVII). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien.

Şahinol, M. (2019). ‘Help, the monster is eating me!’ – Loss of control of the technical vs. harmonically acting bio-technical figure of the cyborg in experimental neuroscientific therapy. In D. Compagna & S. Steinhart (Eds.), Monsters, Monstrosities, and the Monstrous in Culture and Society (pp. 197-213). Vernon Press.

Şahinol, M. (2018). Die Überwindung der ‘Natur des Menschen’ durch Technik. Körper-Technik-Verhältnisse am Beispiel der Cyborgkonstitution in den Neurowissenschaften. In B. P. Goecke & F. Meier-Hamidi (Eds.), Designobjekt Mensch? Transhumanismus in Theologie, Philosophie und Naturwissenschaften (pp. 461-489). Freiburg / Basel / Vienna: Herder Verlag.

Şahinol, M., & Kuhnt, A.-K. (2018). Quo Vadis Fetura? Reproduktionstechnologien als Teil des Human Enhancement: Ein Ländervergleich zwischen Deutschland und der Türkei. In B. P. Goecke & F. Meier-Hamidi (Eds.), Designobjekt Mensch? Transhumanismus in Theologie, Philosophie und Naturwissenschaften (pp. 429-459). Freiburg / Basel / Vienna: Herder Verlag.

Şahinol, M. (2017). Reproductive Health in Turkey: From Enhancing Eggs to Intercultural Implications for Responsible Research and Innovation. In D. M. Bowman, A. Dijkstra, C. Fautz, J. Guivant, K. Konrad, C. Shelley-Egan, & S. Woll (Eds.), The Politics and Situatedness of Emerging Technologies (Vol. 8, pp. 111-127). Berlin: IOS Press.

Şahinol, M. (2017). “Jetzt ändere Dein Gehirn in diese Richtung!“ – Aneignungsprozesse der Steuerung von Hirnaktivität über das Brain-Computer Interface. In E. Lettkemann, R. Wilke, & H. Knoblauch (Ed.), Knowledge in Action: Neue Formen der Kommunikation in der Wissensgesellschaft (pp. 213-237). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

Şahinol, M. (2014). Sheila Jasanoff: Wissenschafts- und Technikpolitik in zeitgenössischen, demokratischen Gesellschaften. In D. Lengersdorf & M. Wieser (Eds.), Schlüsselwerke der Science & Technology Studies (pp. 293–303): Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

Şahinol, M. (2012). Wissen – Körper – Technik: Dynamiken im neurowissenschaftlichen und -technologischen Innovationsprozess. In M. Decker, A. Grunwald, & K. M. (Eds.), Der Systemblick auf Innovation – Technikfolgenabschätzung in der Technikgestaltung (pp. 425-430). Berlin: Edition Sigma.

Şahinol, M. (2007). Soziale Netzwerke und Technische Innovationen. Akteursstrategien zwischen Markt und Technikgenese am Beispiel des inHaus’. In D. Compagna (Ed.), Soziotechnische Aspekte von Teleheimarbeit (pp. 163–191). Lohmar-Köln: Eul-Verlag.

Data Sources

Kopilaš, V., Buzas, N., Carmesund, U., Ceausu, I., Chenhall, R., Şahinol, M., . . . Gajovic, S. (2022). The collection of narratives on strategies, ethics and public response of COVID-19 national vaccination process written by members of scholarly association Navigating Knowledge Landscapes Network. Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/bwdf6v5wgr.1

Martinelli, L., Bilyy, R., Buzas, N., Ceausu, I., Prainsack, B., Şahinol, M. …. Kopilaš, V. (2020), “The collection of narratives on face mask wearing written by members of scholarly association Navigating Knowledge Landscapes Network in May 2020”, Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/9s6fm7vdbc.1

Blog contributions

Şahinol, Melike, Impressions on the lecture “How to make a difference: Free 3D printed devices for earthquake victims“ given by Zeynep Karagöz (Robotel Türkiye), Orient-Institut Istanbul Blog, 3 April 2023, https://www.oiist.org/impressions-on-the-lecture-how-to-make-a-difference-free-3d-printed-devices-for-earthquake-victims-given-by-zeynep-karagoez-robotel-tuerkiye

Şahinol, M. “Enabling-Technologien in der Kindheit“. Themenportal „Resilienz und Innovation“ / “Technologische und gesellschaftliche Umbrüche“, Max Weber Stiftung. 4.8.2022. https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/themenportal/beitraege/enabling-technologien-in-der-kindheit.html   

Haug, Judith I; Nematollahy, Kamyar; Rieck, Katja; Şahinol, Melike; Voswinckel Filiz, Esther, IRSSC Closing Conference, 10-12 February 2022 – Every Ending Is a New Beginning, Orient-Institut Istanbul Blog, 24 February 2022, https://www.oiist.org/irssc-closing-conference/

Şahinol, M., Taşdizen, B., & Başkavak, G. “Perform_Factur_ing /Healthy/ Wo_Man: Iran, Turkey and Beyond: A Timely Reflection,” https://hairyless.hypotheses.org blog post, 16 February 2022. https://hairyless.hypotheses.org/?p=563

Şahinol, M. „Dis-/Abilities – Dijitalleştirme Bağlamında Engellilik/Engelsizlik ve Medya” / “Dis-Abilities – Nicht-/Behinderung und Medien im Kontext der Digitalisierung”, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Newsletter (https://www.oiist.org/tr/newsletter/), Sonbahar/Herbst 2020 (p. 32).

Şahinol, M., Başkavak, G. “Covid-19 Sürecinde Tip 1 Diyabetli ve Sürekli Glikoz İzleme Teknolojisi Kullanan Çocuklar” / “Kinder mit Typ 1-Diabetes und kontinuierliche Glukosemessung während Covid-19”, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Newsletter (https://www.oiist.org/tr/newsletter/), Sonbahar/Herbst 2020 (pp. 18-19).

Rieck, K., Şahinol, M., Taşdizen, B. “Iterations of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Themes and Problem Spaces in Turkey, Iran and Germany,” Orient-Institut Istanbul Blog, 31 July 2020. https://www.oiist.org/iterations-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-themes-and-problem-spaces-in-turkey-iran-and-germany/

Şahinol, M., Motika, R. “Human Enhancement/İnsan Geliştirme, Christopher Coenen (ITAS-KIT) ile kısa bir söyleşi,” Orient-Institut Istanbul Blog, 5 June 2020, https://www.oiist.org/human-enhancement-insan-gelistirme-christopher-coenen-itas-kit-ile-kisa-bir-soeylesi/

Şahinol, M., Başkavak, G. “İnsan, Tıp ve Toplum alanındaki “E-sağlık: Türkiye’de Öz-Takip Cihazlarının Pratikleri ve Sosyo-Kültürel” başlıklı proje tamamlandı,” Orient-Institut Istanbul Blog, 30 April 2020, https://www.oiist.org/insan-tip-ve-toplum-alanindaki-e-saglik-tuerkiyede-oez-takip-cihazlarinin-pratikleri-ve-sosyo-kueltuerel-boyutlari-baslikli-proje-tamamlandi/

Interviews (radio, TV, online)

“Kellik nedir?” – interview for a YouTube short film on the subject of baldness by “Deutsche Welle”, https://youtu.be/MK-oYGCqbLU?si=fGWJxB1yyhJ6l6XC (August 2023)

Radiointerview: Melike Şahinol: Toplum 5.0 ve Sağlık Sektörünün Geleceği (Society 5.0 and the Future of the Health Sector), von Yıldız Tuğba Kurtuluş Kara, ST Endüstri Radyo (29.10.2020)

GiD Lab: Interviewreihe – Melike Şahinol stellt sich vor: https://gid.hypotheses.org/2733, Videointerview: https://gid.hypotheses.org/2475, Max Weber Stiftung: Geisteswissenschaft im Dialog (22.09.2020)

Sosyal Kafa TV – STS Turkey ile Bilim ve Teknoloji Çalışmaları üzerine (about Science and Technology Studies with STS Turkey coordinators). New Media Cultural Program, Internet-TV round table discussant (10.7.2020)

#MWSLieblingsorte – Das MakerLab in Istanbul, Max Weber Stiftung (15.10.2019)

Fünf Fragen an Melike Şahinol, Research Fellow, Orient-Institut Istanbul. In: TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, TATuP 1/2018, (http://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/105/159)

readme.txt: „Das techno-zerebrale Subjekt. Zur Symbiose von Mensch und Maschine in den Neurowissenschaften“, Max Weber Stiftung (16.12.2016)

Cyborgs, Klone und Mutanten? – Interview mit Melike Şahinol über aktuelle Transformationsprozesse in der Medizin, von Gesche Schifferdecker. WeberWorldCafé “Diversity – Limits and Opportunities” (28.11.2016).

“Ich möchte Prozesse der Entgrenzung der Medizin im interkulturellen Vergleich untersuchen” – 5in10 mit Melike Şahinol, with Gesche Schifferdecker. In: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, https://trafo.hypotheses.org/ (18.2.2016).

Conference Reports

Tagungsbericht “Geschichte(n) der Robotik,” Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte 2009. In: Zeitschrift für Technikgeschichte. 2010. Also in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 5.8.2009 (with Sonja Petersen)

Conference Report “History of Robotics,”Annual Meeting of the German Society for the History of Technology (GTG) May 2009. In: Newsletter of the International Committee for the History of Technology ICOHTEC, No. 53, August 2009 (with Sonja Petersen)