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Ekin Ilgın Demirhan

Ekin is a musicologist specializing in music sociology and communication. Currently a content marketer, Ekin is fascinated by the intersection of sound and society and how music shapes social dynamics.

Music

🌀 This Oscar Was About More Than a Film Score

Mar 18, 2026

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9 min read

🌀 This Oscar Was About More Than a Film Score

How Ludwig Göransson's win for Sinners became a quiet act of historical reckoning.

Ekin Ilgın Demirhan
Ekin Ilgın Demirhan

Screen

🌀 The Deepfake Paradox

Mar 16, 2026

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8 min read

🌀 The Deepfake Paradox

Who killed the truth, and why nobody filed a police report?

Bahar Kırmaz
Ekin Ilgın Demirhan
Bahar Kırmaz, +1

Music

🌀 The Canon Was Always a Choice

Mar 11, 2026

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7 min read

🌀 The Canon Was Always a Choice

The canon wasn't discovered. It was constructed.

Ekin Ilgın Demirhan
Ekin Ilgın Demirhan

Screen

🌀 Who Writes the Script?

Mar 9, 2026

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7 min read

🌀 Who Writes the Script?

Logan Roy crowned a president with a phone call and the scariest part is how little of that is fiction.

Bahar Kırmaz
Ekin Ilgın Demirhan
Bahar Kırmaz, +1

Music

🌀 The Sound You Can't Hear: Music's Carbon Problem

Mar 4, 2026

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8 min read

🌀 The Sound You Can't Hear: Music's Carbon Problem

Your playlist is weightless, but its carbon footprint isn't.

Ekin Ilgın Demirhan
Ekin Ilgın Demirhan

Screen

🌀 Panem et Circenses: The Aesthetics of Conflict

Mar 2, 2026

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8 min read

🌀 Panem et Circenses: The Aesthetics of Conflict

Gladiators still exist

Bahar Kırmaz
Ekin Ilgın Demirhan
Bahar Kırmaz, +1

Music

🌀 Algorithms on the Charts

Feb 25, 2026

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8 min read

🌀 Algorithms on the Charts

The rise of generative music.

Ekin Ilgın Demirhan
Ekin Ilgın Demirhan

Screen

🌀 The Barbie Doctrine: How A Plastic Doll Rewrote the Rules of Diplomacy

Feb 23, 2026

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8 min read

🌀 The Barbie Doctrine: How A Plastic Doll Rewrote the Rules of Diplomacy

Whose dream are you living in?

Bahar Kırmaz
Ekin Ilgın Demirhan
Bahar Kırmaz, +1

Music

🌀How Rap Outgrew Its Own Gold Chain

Feb 18, 2026

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8 min read

🌀How Rap Outgrew Its Own Gold Chain

Why did every rapper start sounding like a millionaire, and why is that era ending?

Ekin Ilgın Demirhan
Ekin Ilgın Demirhan

Screen

🌀  The Vought Effect: When the Meltdown Became the Message

Feb 16, 2026

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6 min read

🌀 The Vought Effect: When the Meltdown Became the Message

The meltdown is the strategy now.

Bahar Kırmaz
Ekin Ilgın Demirhan
Bahar Kırmaz, +1

Music

🌀 How Zara Larsson Let Her Fans Rebrand Her

Feb 11, 2026

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7 min read

🌀 How Zara Larsson Let Her Fans Rebrand Her

Zara Larsson let a meme influence her career, and it paid off.

Ekin Ilgın Demirhan
Ekin Ilgın Demirhan

Music

🌀 Bad Bunny Made Puerto Rico the Center of the World

Feb 4, 2026

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7 min read

🌀 Bad Bunny Made Puerto Rico the Center of the World

How a love letter to Puerto Rico became the most important album in the world?

Ekin Ilgın Demirhan
Ekin Ilgın Demirhan

Music

🌀 The Swift Institution: More Than A Melody

Jan 28, 2026

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6 min read

🌀 The Swift Institution: More Than A Melody

How Taylor Swift became "The One"?

Ekin Ilgın Demirhan
Ekin Ilgın Demirhan

Culture

Fandom as Faith: Pilgrimages, Relics, and Lore

Nov 28, 2025

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9 min read

Fandom as Faith: Pilgrimages, Relics, and Lore

How Modern Fandom Turns Devotion into Collective Meaning

Asena Kaya Karaca
Eren Daskesen
Ekin Ilgın Demirhan
Asena Kaya Karaca, +2

Culture Decoded

Culture Decoded explains modern life, trends, and behaviors by making complex ideas simple, real, and relatable.