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

  Authors:Koçer, 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)

  
  
• Foreign Correspondents in Turkey Between the Home and Host Agendas 

  Authors:Yanardağoğlu, Eylem; Tılıç, L. Doğan
  Publisher and Date:(Routledge, 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)

  
  
• Branding Cities in the Age of Social Media: A Comparative Assessment of Local Government Performance 

  Authors:Sevin, Efe
  Publisher and Date:(Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2016)

  This chapter is a comparative study of how three local governments-Cape Town (South Africa), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA), and Myrtle Beach (South Carolina, USA)-use social media platforms in their city branding attempts. Theoretical arguments in the fields of corporate and city branding point out the potential of these new communication platforms to change how brand-related content is created and shared with target audiences. However, the practice is understudied. The study first explains the ...

  
  
• 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 ...

  
  
• "I am here': women workers' experiences at the former Cibali Tekel Tobacco and Cigarette Factory in Istanbul 

  Authors:Selen, Eser; O'Neil, Mary Lou
  Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals, 2017)

  This study presents oral history research which investigated the experiences of surviving women workers from the former Cibali Tekel Tobacco and Cigarette Factory in Istanbul, Turkey. For most of its history, the factory was home to thousands of workers, many of who were women and, at times, outnumbered men two to one. While the site is now known for the university that it houses, photographs and archival records from the early twentieth century reveal the centrality of women in the process and ...

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

  Authors:Bozdağ, 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 ...

  
  
• Who is responsible? The impact of emotional personalization on explaining the origins of social problems 

  Authors:Kim, Minchul; Hale, Brent J.; Grabe, Maria Elizabeth; Baş, Özen
  Publisher and Date:(Routledge, 2020)

  Personalization refers to the journalistic practice of including emotional case studies of ordinary people in news stories, increasing vividness and emotional charge of news and eliciting identification and empathy in news consumers. Previous research suggests that personalization of news stories increases collectivistic (compared with individualistic) causal attributions by the news audience. In response, an experiment was conducted with a week time delay between stimuli presentation and open-ended ...

  
  
• How to study ethnic food: Senses, power, and intercultural studies 

  Authors:Karaosmanoğlu, Defne
  Publisher and Date:(BioMed Central Ltd., 2020)

  This article gives a broad review of the literature focusing on food, senses, and intercultural relations. Integrating cultural studies literature and concepts into ethnic food studies, it tries to understand the ways in which ethnic food becomes an agent of social change and helps to build, promote, and improve intercultural relations. More specifically, this article tries to explore the ways in which ethnic food could be used as a pedagogical tool in intercultural relations. The following questions ...

  
  
• Wallace Stevens's Poetics of the Other 

  Authors:Eken, Bülent
  Publisher and Date:(Walter De Gruyter Gmbh, 2017)

  This article reveals a central yet hitherto unsuspected meditation in Wallace Stevens on the problem of the other person in relation to the concept of the other construed by Gilles Deleuze as the "expression of a possible world" (1990: 308). It demonstrates that, seen from this perspective, the figure of subjectivity appears to be a rhetorical means in the service of a poetics centered on the other. In readings of Stevens, it traces the way in which he thinks through the question of the other and ...

  
  
• Public Opinion in Turkey: Social and Political Implications of Recent Trends 

  Authors:Baybars Hawks, Banu
  Publisher and Date:(Int Business Information Management Assoc-Ibima, 2018)

  This study reveals what the public thinks about current issues in Turkey, and whether the recent trends have any reflections on social, political, and cultural structure of the country. The data collected with this research provide important insights into public's opinion regarding current and potential issues in Turkey, and also guide policymakers in shaping the public policies. The outputs of this study may also encourage scholars and researchers from different fields and backgrounds to study ...

  
  
• Digital Citizenship from Below: Turkish State versus Youtube 

  Authors:Baybars Hawks, Banu; Akser, Murat
  Publisher and Date:(Int Business Information Management Assoc-Ibima, 2018)

  This study aims to give a historically situated analysis of the YouTube ban as seen by Turkish internet users during the first YouTube ban period between 2007-10. The content is used from online Turkish anonymous user platform, eksi sozluk, (sour dictionary). The aim is to test whether there is a civil society response to the ban which political elites and ordinary citizens contest the necessity of access to global social media networks. The main focus of this research paper is the kinds of discourse ...

  
  
• BLENDING SCIENCE AND ART: AN EDUCATIONAL PERSPECTIVE 

  Authors:Balkır, Nur; Saher, Konca; Mıhçı, Gürkan
  Publisher and Date:(Iated-Int Assoc Technology Education & Development, 2019)

  rt and design education enable students to find creative and logical solutions to various design problems. The use of materials, constructive analysis, craftmanship, and originality are some key criteria in the process. Size and dimensionality, the proportion analysis, expression integrity, substantiality, and presentability can vary depending on the project and the context. As one of the methods used to provide targeted experience and learning in art and design education, interdisciplinary work ...

  
  
• Bottom-up nationalism and discrimination on social media: An analysis of the citizenship debate about refugees in Turkey 

  Authors:Bozdağ, Çiğdem
  Publisher and Date:(Sage Publications Ltd, 2020)

  This study analyzes social media representations of refugees in Turkey and discusses their role in shaping public opinion. The influx of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey has created heated debates about their presence and future in the country. One of these debates was triggered by President Erdogan's statement that Turkey would issue citizenship rights to Syrians in July 2016. Due to a lack of critical voices about refugee issues in Turkey's mass media sphere, social media has become a key ...

  
  
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  Accented Essays: Documentary as Artistic Practice in Contemporary Audiovisual Works from Turkey 

  Authors:Akçalı, Elif
  Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francıs Ltd, 2019)

  This article looks at the use of documentary filmmaking in contemporary artistic practices in Turkey, specifically focusing on three works that adopt a first-person, subjective viewpoint: Didem Pekun's Of Dice and Men (2016), Sener ozmen's How to Tell of Peace to a Living Dove? (2015), and Aykan Safoglu's Off-White Tulips (2013). Made by artists in transition, these films tackle themes of belonging and identity through stylistic choices proper to essayistic filmmaking, which allow these works to ...

  
  

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