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Perception, petroleum, and power: Mythmaking in oil-scarce Turkey and Jordan
(Elsevier, 2020)
Oil has been a cardinal driver of economic growth and national development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. States that produce oil in globally exportable quantities tend to be more powerful than those that do ...
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 ...
Neo-Despotism as Anti-Despotism
(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 ...
Activist communication design on social media: The case of online solidarity against forced Islamic lifestyle
(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 ...
'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. ...
Bottom-up nationalism and discrimination on social media: An analysis of the citizenship debate about refugees in Turkey
(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 ...
Who is responsible? The impact of emotional personalization on explaining the origins of social problems
(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 ...
How to study ethnic food: Senses, power, and intercultural studies
(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 ...
A Moebial Ride through Polanski's Repulsion
(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 ...
“The Public Immoralist”: Discourses of Queer Subjectification in Contemporary Turkey
(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 ...