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Publishing leaked information as news: Sabotage or journalistic success?
(2013)
This article aims to analyse the universal news criteria regarding the transformation of information into news. In February 2013 the transcript of a meeting between 3 pro-Kurdish deputies and the jailed leader of the PKK ...
Who sets the agenda in Turkey? Recent political and social trends in Turkish public opinion
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2015)
In terms of scholarly research and understanding the national social and political systems and policies the need exists for an empirical assessment of recent trends in public opinion in Turkey. Accordingly the current study ...
'Just the way my generation reads the news': News consumption habits of youth in Turkey and the UK
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2020)
Audiences' media use and news consumption behaviour are constantly shifting. Some scholars note that the growing decline in youth's news consumption raises concerns about the future of democracy in various media systems. ...
Elderly People's Choice of Media and their Perceived State of Loneliness
(Online Journal Communication & Media Technologies-Ojcmt, 2016)
This study aims at finding the relationship between elderly people's perceived state of loneliness and their choice of (old and/or new) media instruments. The sample of the study consists of randomly selected 300 elderly ...
Intimate engagements of the public kind
(2010)
Cultural intimacy, both the book and the concept, privileges the nation-state as the site of doing and writing ethnography and understanding sociality in a world customarily designated "globalizing." Not only have we placed ...
Will peace flourish in the end? The history of suffering: Terrorism in Turkey
(2013)
For the past 30 years, the PKK has launched a campaign of terror in Turkey. Despite the rise and fall of attacks throughout the years, the PKK's terrorist activities have never completely ended. Through the recent initiative ...
The positive association of education with the trust in science and scientists is weaker in highly corrupt countries
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2023)
One of the most prominent correlates of trust in science and scientists is education level, possibly because educated individuals have higher levels of science knowledge and thinking ability, suggesting that trusting science ...
Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023)
This article examines the historical roots of the role of successive Turkish governments' fear of media and Turkish media's fear of government authority with respect to the development of press freedom over the long run ...
Folk theories of false information: A mixed-methods study in the context of Covid-19 in Turkey
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2022)
This study explores how media users define false information in the daily flow of their lives against a backdrop of sociopolitical contexts. We focus on the vernacular definitions of false information through the concept ...
Media Effects in a Polarized Political System: The Case of Turkey
(Springer/Plenum Publishers, 2023)
Can the media influence vote choice when the media and the party system are highly polarized, and vote shifts are infrequent? We argue affirmatively that media significantly influences vote choice even in such systems. ...