• TURKISH ACADEMICS IN EUROPE An Autumn Tale 

  Authors:Bayraktar, Gülümser Deniz
  Publisher and Date:(Springer, 2006)

  
  
• The migration story of Turks in Germany: from the beginning to the end 

  Authors:Soysal, Levent
  Publisher and Date:(Cambrıdge Univ Press, 2008)

  
  
• PERSPECTIVE SCHOLAR LOUISE SPENCE ON COMPARING THE SOAP OPERA TO OTHER FORMS 

  Authors:De Kosnik, Abigail; Spence, Louise
  Publisher and Date:(Univ Press Mississippi, 2011)

  
  
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  Dijital-Siber-Sosyal; Yeni Bir Medyadan Yeni Bir Yaşam Alanına Dönüşüm 

  Authors:Polat, İsmail Hakkı
  Publisher and Date:(2016)

  Dijital-Siber-Sosyal; Yeni Bir Medyadan Yeni Bir Yaşam Alanına Dönüşüm

  
  
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  A Moebial Ride through Polanski's Repulsion 

  Authors:Tüzün, Defne
  Publisher and Date:(Univ Pittsburgh, 2020)

  This article examines Roman Polonski's film Repulsion from a psychoanalytic perspective by attending Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection. This paper deals primarily with two main focal points. First, it focuses on the film's portrayal of the protagonist, Carole's abjection, her problem of non-differentiation, as evidenced by her relation to the maternal body and to corporeality. Secondly, the article investigates how the film positions its viewers with regard to Carole. It questions how Repulsion ...

  
  
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  Use of Social Media in the Struggle Surrounding Violence Against Turkish Women 

  Authors:Ogan, Christine L.; Baş, Özen
  Publisher and Date:(University of Southern California, 2020)

  Increasingly large numbers of women in Turkey have suffered abuse or lost their lives through attacks by men. In 2019 alone, 474 women were killed by men. Based on theories of connective action and affective publics, this study examines online activism regarding violence against Turkish women through a qualitative content analysis of Twitter messages with popular hashtags. Posts addressing six different cases of violent crimes directed at women that took place between 2015 and 2019 constituted the ...

  
  
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  Cinema Has Split the Girl's Soul Into Pieces: Scrutinizing Representations of Women in Films From Turkey 

  Authors:Cengiz, Esi̇n Paça
  Publisher and Date:(University of Southern California, 2020)

  The 1980s in Turkey were marked by the emergence of new cinematic forms, including films dealing with issues regarding female subjectivity. This article argues that within the scope of an extensive body of films produced about women in the 1980s, Her Name Is Vasfiye, Aaahh Belinda!, How to Save Asiye, Ten Women, and My Dreams, My Love and You opened up a significant space for discussions about ideological constructions concerning images of women in cinema. By deploying reflexive and fragmented ...

  
  
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  “The Public Immoralist”: Discourses of Queer Subjectification in Contemporary Turkey 

  Authors:Selen, Eser
  Publisher and Date:(University of Southern California, 2020)

  This study examines the forms of queer subjectification that have been molded through regular acts of gender- and sexuality-based violence against LGBTQ+ citizens as encouraged by the dominant religious and secular discourses in Turkey. Within that context, this article explicates the discursive mechanisms at work in the statements that were made by politicians and journalists between 2002 and 2018. In those discourses, the qualities attributed to nonheteronormative sexualities, such as perversion ...

  
  
• 'Just the way my generation reads the news': News consumption habits of youth in Turkey and the UK 

  Authors:Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
  Publisher and Date:(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. This research explores the factors that influence college students' news consumption behaviour in the United Kingdom and Turkey through an interpretative approach. The data are based on qualitative in-depth interviews with around 50 students studying in major universities in London ...

  
  
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  Neo-Despotism as Anti-Despotism 

  Authors:Diken, Bülent
  Publisher and Date:(Sage Publications, 2021)

  I treat despotism as a virtual concept. Thus it is necessary to expose its actualizations even when it appears as its opposite, refusing to recognize itself as despotism. I define despotism initially as arbitrary rule, in terms of a monstrous transgression of the law. But since the monster is grounded in its very formlessness, it cannot be demonstrated. However, one can always try to de-monstrate it through disagreements. In doing this, I deal with despotism not as a solipsistic undertaking but ...

  
  
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  Activist communication design on social media: The case of online solidarity against forced Islamic lifestyle 

  Authors:Arda, Balca; Akdemir, Ayşegül
  Publisher and Date:(Sage Publications, 2021)

  This article explores the relationship between connective and collective group identity through the example of “You Won’t Walk Alone,” a social media platform of solidarity for women suffering from the pressures of Islamic dress code in Turkey. While Turkey has a long history of conservative women’s initiatives against secular institutional code and of secular women against Islamic and misogynist social reactions, the social media platform You Won’t Walk Alone (Yalnız Yürümeyeceksin) illustrates ...

  
  
• KURDISH CINEMA AS A TRANSNATIONAL DISCOURSE GENRE: CINEMATIC VISIBILITY, CULTURAL RESILIENCE, AND POLITICAL AGENCY 

  Authors:Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem
  Publisher and Date:(Cambrıdge Univ Press, 2014)

  Within the last few years, "Kurdish cinema" has emerged as a unique discursive subject in Turkey. Subsequent to and in line with efforts to unify Kurdish cultural production in diaspora, Kurdish intellectuals have endeavored to define and frame the substance of Kurdish cinema as an orienting framework for the production and reception of films by and about Kurds. In this article, my argument is threefold. First, Kurdish cinema has emerged as a national cinema in transnational space. Second, like ...

  
  
• Into the Body of Another: Strange Couplings and Unnatural Alliances of Harlequin Coat 

  Authors:Baykan, Burcu
  Publisher and Date:(Palgrave, 2015)

  
  
• Cybernetic narrative Modes of circularity, feedback and perception in new media artworks 

  Authors:Selen, Eser
  Publisher and Date:(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2015)

  Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore how second-order cybernetics (von Foerster, 2002) functions in new media artworks, specifically through information, system and user. While formulating the relationship between new media artworks and the discourses surrounding cybernetics the paper analyzes Popp's (2006) Bit. Fall, Wojtowicz's (2007) Elsewhere News and Zeren Goktan's (2013) The Counter, as exemplars of alternative methods of narration. This study further argues that these new media ...

  
  
• Turkey in Europe, Europe in Turkey: History, Elites, and the Media 

  Authors:Soysal, Levent; Özçürümez, Saime; Diner, Çağla
  Publisher and Date:(Palgrave, 2015)

  
  
• Vacillation in Turkey's Popular Global TV Exports: Toward a More Complex Understanding of Distribution 

  Authors:Alankuş, Sevda; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
  Publisher and Date:(USC Annenberg Press, 2016)

  Audience demand for Turkey's TV series has increased their strength in the regional market and beyond. By mid-2014 more than 70 Turkish TV dramas reached audiences in 75 countries. Some experts have characterized this as neo-Ottoman cool, referring to Turkey's growing "soft power" role in successfully combining Islam with democracy. However, survey data from 16 Arab countries, previous audience studies, and our in-depth interviews with Istanbul-based producers and distributors refute this. Neo-Ottoman ...

  
  
• Deepening Polarization in Turkish Society: The Impact of Political Actors on Public Opinion 

  Authors:Hawks, Banu Baybars
  Publisher and Date:(Int Business Information Management ASSOC-IBIMA, 2017)

  Recent research shows that polarization trends are on the rise in Turkey (Konda 2010; BILGESAM 2014: Erdogan 2016: Kadir Has University Turkey Research Center 2017). There are different patterns of polarization in Turkish social and political structure, while its consequences reveal themselves in the political rhetoric, media discourse and voting behavior. There is not much research done in social sciences with regard to the research of polarization and its underlying factors in Turkey. To be able ...

  
  
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  "Life is a state of mind' - on fiction, society and Trump 

  Authors:Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten Bagge
  Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals, 2017)

  The article undertakes an allegorical double reading of Being There and Trump as instances of what we call socio-fiction. Crucially in this respect, reality and fiction are not two opposed realms. The two realms always interact in subtle ways, which is why cinema can be a resource for diagnostic social analysis. We first articulate a general commentary on the relationship between cinema and society, introducing the concept of socio-fiction'. Secondly, we analyse Peter Sellers' Being There, an ...

  
  
• Understanding the Images of Alan Kurdi With "Small Data": A Qualitative, Comparative Analysis of Tweets About Refugees in Turkey and Flanders (Belgium) 

  Authors:Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Smets, Kevin
  Publisher and Date:(USC Annenberg Press, 2017)

  One of the peak moments of the debate on the European refugee crisis was caused by the circulation of images of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Aegean Sea on September 2, 2015. The images triggered worldwide reactions from politicians, nongovernmental organizations, and citizens. This article analyzes these reactions through a qualitative study of 961 tweets from Turkey and Flanders (Belgium), contextualizing them into the framing and representation of refugees before ...

  
  
• The despotic imperative: From Hiero to the circle 

  Authors:Diken, Bülent
  Publisher and Date:(Duke University Press, 2019)

  The article thematizes the actuality of despotism through a double reading of Xenophon’s Hiero and Dave Eggers’s Circle. A key text on despotism, Hiero is interesting to reconsider in a contemporary context because of its explicit focus on the economic element in the nexus of despotism, economy, and voluntary servitude. Discussing this nexus in an ancient context, the article turns to The Circle, a dystopic novel from 2013, which elaborates on how the attempt at creating a transparent society ...

  
  

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