Browsing Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı by Author "O'Neil, Mary Lou"
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Prayer bead gestures and television: A case study on cultural inspirations for interaction art education
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Publisher and Date:(MIT Press Journals, 2009)The authors interactive design-art educators recount their experience in using cultural inspirations as part of student exercises. The authors found that although students proposed various design concepts drawing from the surrounding culture very few moved beyond experience design art. In order to remedy this situation without giving explicit direction the authors encouraged students to examine cultural habits and/or artifacts from their past or their current lives in the hope that this could ...
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Strangers to and producers of their own culture: American popular culture and Turkish young people
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Publisher and Date:(2010)American popular culture is virtually everywhere including Turkey. Turkey is a close ally of the United States and American cultural products have long been present in Turkey. How does the presence of American popular culture in Turkey affect young people? Employing a series of focus groups comprised of Turkish university students we explored the meanings they attach to American popular culture and the place it has in their lives. What emerged was a portrait of Turkish young people constructing ...
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The not so new Turkish woman: A statistical look at women in two Istanbul neighborhoods
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Publisher and Date:(2009)Using survey data gathered from nearly 400 women living in two Istanbul neighborhoods this article explores issues of work education family and feminism. In addition to presenting the findings we argue that there is a continued gap between the ideal of the Republican woman and the actual practices of this group of Turkish women. The picture of these Turkish women that emerged from this survey is that of women still largely in the grips of an ideal born in the early days of the Turkish Republic. ...
