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From Ayran to Dragon Fruit Smoothie: Populism, Polarization, and Social Engineering in Turkey
(USC Annenberg Press, 2020)
Food embedded with symbolic meaning has power in politics. Food as political communication is extensively studied as a nation branding and public diplomacy tool. However, academic studies seem to overlook the role that ...
News-Sharing Repertoires on Social Media in the Context of Networked Authoritarianism: The Case of Turkey
(USC ANNENBERG PRESS, 2020)
Social media has become a primary gateway for users to access news, especially in authoritarian states with strictly controlled media environments. In such contexts, it is crucial to understand the motivations that prompt ...
Framing the Russian aircraft crisis: News discourse in Turkey’s polarized media environment
(Forsnet, 2018)
This article analyzes the way in which the downing of a Russian aircraft by a Turkish F-16 jet on 24 November 2015 was framed by pro-government (Türkiye, Yeni Akit, Yeni Şafak) and anti-government (Cumhuriyet) newspapers. ...
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. ...