Browsing by Author "Akser, Murat"

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Arm-wrestling a super power: American representations in Turkish comedies
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2010) Kahraman, Elif; Akser, Murat
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the cinematic representations of American characters in Turkish comedy films. It claims that through comedy films Turkish society expresses its feelings and thoughts about Americans. This study suggests that Turkish comedies that represent American characters are not only aimed at providing amusement to Turkish audiences but also express feelings on changing the power relations of the real world. While these comedies turn the power relations upside down, they make Turkish characters superior because of the fact that American representations just include the American military and CIA, which are regarded as powerful institutions. Beating these institutions provides superiority to the Turkish side in representations. From this point of view, this study includes the changing relations between Orientalism and Occidentalism via these films.For the study, five films have been chosen (Five Masqueraders " Iraq, Americans at Black Sea " 2, European, Ottoman Republic and Super Spy K9) to show American representations that are related with the American military and CIA. It explores the three findings of physical, behavioral and linguistic representations of the American characters. This study is important in that it unites American Studies and Film Studies and it also the first that examines American representations in contemporary Turkish comedy films. The main aim of this study is to reveal the hidden thoughts and feelings about Americans in general from the perspective of Turkish comedies.
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Digital Citizenship from Below: Turkish State versus Youtube
(Int Business Information Management Assoc-Ibima, 2018) Baybars Hawks, Banu; Akser, Murat
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 the Turkish online community used to protest the ban during the first YouTube ban. Through a combination content analysis and discourse analysis the bloggers reactions are coded and indexed to decipher the discourse produced as an active resistance/criticism against the YouTube. The response to YouTube ban that come from Turkish internet users (from below) and was critical in times of global events effecting the usage of internet and was not silenced between these events. As long as they remained anonymous (not organized action) Turkish bloggers utilized their rights for online expression. Frequency of critical blog entries increase in times of events critical of government's YouTube ban. The response to the ban is either based on condemning it or offering ways around the ban; but not calling for united action. Anonymity of the user increases the level of criticism and participation. Finally, both the government authorities and NGOs expect individual action but demand organized corporate action
Dunya sinemasında sürrealizmin izleri
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2012) Demirci, Tan Tolga; Akser, Murat
Sanat tarihcileri tarafindan iki dunya savasi arasinda kalmis bir sanat akimi olarakkabul goren surrealizmin sahip oldugu dusunsel soylemin niteligi acisindan kendi dunya sinemasi ekseninde kesfetmek ve boylelikle de surrealizm uzerinden yeni bir sinema dilinin yolunu acmak bu calismanin ana hedefini olusturmaktadir.
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Editorial
(Univ Pittsburgh, Univ Library System, 2012) Akser, Murat
This issue of CINEJ focuses on issues ranging from Malian Cinema, Islam in Turkish cinema, Bergman, Mulholland Drive and sound in early Hollywood cinema.
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Editorial
(Univ Pittsburgh, Univ Library System, 2013) Akser, Murat
This issue of CINEJ deals with approaches to films from different parts of the world ranging from India and China to Italy and Canada. Detailed analyses on films about Ghandi, docufictions on New York City, reflections of contemporary terror in historical cinema, Chinese Soft Film Movement, road movies, religious identification in films, documemory, Italian neorealism and female performance in Canadian cinema are presented in this issue.
Eternal overtime of the wireless world impacts of blackberry to work/life balance
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2011) Yıldırım, Nisa Gülener; Akser, Murat
Digital revolution brings incredible technologies in every part of life and people accept all inventions amazingly. With the integration of web and cell phones, individuals of digital age lost the definite line between work and the rest of life. Smart phones are making the life easier by their various features. They offer flexibility, efficiency and productivity outside the office or on non-working hours. However they have been affecting work/life balance in many ways as a result of being connected to work 24/7. According to many researches, in the long term use of smart phones might have negative impacts such as overuse may cause stress and no relax time as a result of `always on? mode. At first, the idea of being always connected with work seemed very effective for employers. Evenings, weekends also vacations, they could reach their employees whenever they want. Then the idea of working outside the office seemed very flexible to employees. At the end the invasion of smart phones spread and these small gadgets have become parts of the modern work life by introducing us 24/7 overtime of wireless world. I preferred to choose a specific ICT tool for my research; Blackberry was a suitable option due to its popularity among professionals. In my research, I studied the impacts of Blackberry to work/life balance by observing using habits of its users in Turkey.
Gazete yayıncılığında muhafazakarlık söyleminin değişimi 2003 - 2008
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2012) Aydın, Sumru; Akser, Murat
Bu tez, 2003 ve 2008 yıllarında kadına yönelik şiddet haberlerinde muhafazakarlık söyleminin seçilmiş üç gazetede nasıl değiştiğini göstermeyi amaçlamaktadır. Seçilen gazetelere ait haberler niceliksel ve niteliksel olarak incelenmiştir. Kadına yönelik şiddet haberlerinde üç gazetenin aynı olayı farklı yaklaşımlarla haber yaptığı saptanmıştır. Bu yaklaşımlar suçlama, örtme ve abartma olarak özetlenebilir.
Halkla ilişkiler yönetiminde dijital dönüşüm
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2013) Sarıyer, Kübra Gönül; Akser, Murat
Bu calisma Butunlesik Pazarlama Ýletisimi sonrasinda halkla iliskilerin internetin halkla iliskiler uzmanlari tarafindan da mesajlarini iletmekte kullanilmasina davet ettigini gostermektedir. Mevcut durumda yayinlarin online ile iliskisi goz onunde bulunduruldugunda halkla iliskiler sirketlerinin bu yeni akima ayak uydurabilmesi icin iletisim calismalarina internet uzerinden cesitlilik getirmeleri gerektigi gorulmustur.
I Hear you: Soundwalking in Tarlabaşı
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2013) Çağlar, Mehtap; Akser, Murat
Bu tez ses calismalari kapsaminda sehirlesmis alanlari odagina alir soundwalking yontemiyle ve sehrin kendi seslerini dinlemek marifetiyle Tarlabasi ornegi uzerinden sehirleri anlamlandirmanin yontemlerini kesfetmeye calisir. Ýlk bolum literatur taramasi ve bu alandaki boslugun tanimlanmasindan olusur. Ýkinci bolum soundwalking metodunu ve farkli kullanimlarini inceler. ucuncu bolumse metodun Tarlabasi’nda uygulamasinin sonuclarini sunar. Sonuc bolumundeyse metod ve sonuclar degerlendirilerek ilerideki ses calismalari uzerine yorumlar yer alir.
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The Impacts of Tablet Use for Eliminating the Time-Space Barriers in University Education: A Turkish Experience
(Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2014) Polat, İsmail Hakkı; Uzunoğlu, Sarphan; Akser, Murat
Mobile learning applications are widely used in various levels of education process. In developing and developed countries educational institutions use tablets and personal computers for supporting learning processes. Mobile learning practices are generally used for overcoming time-space constraints in traditional learning process. This study covers both lecturer's and students' tablet usages and achievements of tablet usage on Introduction to New Media Course in Kadir Has University undergraduate New Media program including a comparison with traditional and online-blended lectures in previous years Thanks to mobile course tablet application developed students have been able to watch live broadcasts and video records of lectures see lecture presentations and read e-materials submitted online while they were able to submit their assignments exams and response papers. Interaction between lecturer and students is improved by tablet application lecture narrations were followed online and archived. Mobile application is integrated to Facebook for improving students' social interactions with the course materials and lecturer which paves the way for social learning concept. A course which has already been complemented by social networks and another online education software was chosen for the study. With almost same syllabus that was used for two years before comparative data about student and lecturer performances have been obtained. It is found out that average class success increased by %8 compared to previous years mobilization and online interaction level increased average time spent for class increased and 3G was used more than Wifi technologies during the semester that enables the mobility and allows time-space independency for the students.
İnternet yasakları: global ile yerel arasındaki çatışma, ilkeler karşılatırması
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2012) Talu, Oylum; Akser, Murat
Bu tez, internet yasaklarının, Türkiye ve örnek ülkelerdeki benzerlik ve farklılıklarını incelemektedir. Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, Avrupa Birliği, Çin ve Suudi Arabistan araştırılan ülkeler olarak seçilmiştir. Türkiye ve seçilen ülkelerde var olan mevcut internet yasakları ve engelleyen sistemler arasında karşılaştırma yapılmıştır. Yapılan çalışma sonunda, internet sansürü uygulayan ülkelerde aile ve çocuğu korumaya yönelik yasaların benzerliği görülmüştür. Ülkesel bazda bir takım özel hassasiyetler öne çıksa da, internet yasaklarının yerel değil, global olduğu sonucu elde edilmiştir.
Let's make it American: American remakes of the British films
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2013) Kahraman, Elif; Akser, Murat
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze American remake versions of the original British films taking narrative as a basis. it claims that the American remakes put America forward as a cultural product for sale and makes the British narrative Americanized. For the study six films have been chosen for analysis: Alfie (1966 dir. Lewis Gilbert) Alfie (2004 dir. Charles Shyer) Bedazzled (1967 dir. Stanley Donen) Bedazzled (2000 dir. Harold Ramis) The Ladykillers (1955 dir. Alexander Mackendrick) The Ladykillers (2004 dir. Ethan and Joel Coen). This study explores the narrative elements of the American remakes by comparing the remakes with their originals. These narrative elements are setting characters intertextuality and turning points and transformations as well as Americanization. -- Abstract'tan.
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Media and democracy in Turkey: Toward a model of neoliberal media autocracy
(2012) Baybars Hawks, Banu; Akser, Murat
This paper reveals the ways in which media autocracy operates on political, judicial, economic and discursive levels in post-2007 Turkish media. Newsmakers in Turkey currently experience five different systemic kinds of neoliberal government pressures to keep their voice down: conglomerate pressure, judicial suppression, online banishment, surveillance defamation and accreditation discrimination. The progression of restrictions on media freedom has increased in volume annually since 2007; this includes pressure on the Dogan Media Group, the YouTube ban, arrests of journalists in the Ergenekon trials, phone tapping/taping of political figures and the exclusion of all unfriendly reporters from political circles. The levels and tools of this autocracy eventually lead to certain conclusions about the qualities of this media environment: it is a historically conservative, redistributive, panoptic and discriminatory media autocracy.
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Media Systems and Media Capture in Turkey: A Case Study
(Cogitatio Press, 2024) Akser, Murat; Baybars, Banu; Baybars, Banu
This article attempts to explain the current situation of the Turkish media system through the media systems approach as a case study with special attention to the concept of media capture. We propose that the Turkish media system's shift is heavily influenced by media capture. We associate four of Hallin and Mancini's media systems concepts related to the effects of media capture in the Turkish media system shift: rise of political parallelism, erosion of journalistic professionalism (ethics), controlling role of the state, and government-friendly ownership concentration. In explaining the shift from a pluralist polarised to captured media in Turkey, we acknowledge the potential for new, independent, and alternative media to emerge. The article also comments that the potential reason for this shift from a captured liberal to a captured media in Turkey is the climate of fear that has allowed successive governments in Turkey to attempt media capture. In general, this article attempts to provide insight into the current relationship between media and politics in Turkey.
Medya ve siyaset ilişkisi içerisinde Türkiye'de gazetecilik ve sansür
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2012) Sevginer, Pınar; Akser, Murat
Bu çalışmada, çağdaş demokrasilerde medyaya atfedilen rol ve gazetecilik ideali ele alınırken; 1980 sonrası yapısal olarak dönüşüme uğrayan Türk medya sektöründeki değişimler ve bu değişimin gazeteci kimliğine yansımaları ortaya konmaktadır. Dönüşüme uğrayan medya yapısının tarihsel süreci anlatılırken, medya siyaset ilişkisinde yaşananların, gazetecilik mesleğine etkileri somut örneklerle aktarılmıştır.Araştırmanın özgün bölümünü mesleğin içinde yer almış, gazetecilik akademisyeni ve basın ? yayın gazetecilerinden seçilmiş 10 kişiyle yapılan röportajlar oluşturmaktadır. Teorik söylemlerin pratikteki tespitine dair çıkarımlarda bulunmak üzere, katılımcıların mesleki düşünce ve deneyimlerini kapsayan, röportajlar yapılmıştır. Bu isimler; Ayşenur Arslan, Bekir Coşkun, Esra Arsan, Enver Aysever, Haluk Şahin, Kerimcan Kamal, Mine Kırıkkanat, Ragıp Duran, Umur Talu ve Yasemin İnceoğlu'dur.
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Memory, Identity and Desire: A Psychoanalytic Reading of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive
(Univ Pittsburgh, Univ Library System, 2012) Akser, Murat
This is a reading of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive through psychoanalytic approach of Lacan from the perspective of formation of fantasy and shifting identities. Lynch constructs his films consciously choosing his themes from the sub(versive/conscious) side of human mind. Mulholland Drive has been analyzed several times from different approaches ranging from gender (Love, 2004) to narratology (Lentzner, 2005; Mc-Gowan, 2004; Cook, 2011). This detailed textual analysis intends to rationalize Lynch's narrative structure through Lacanian terms in reference to Zizekian terminology.
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Nation, Genre and Female Performance in Canadian Cinema
(Univ Pittsburgh, Univ Library System, 2013) Akser, Murat
This paper outlines a theory of style and performance in Canadian film based on geography, gender and genre. It is possible to form a theory of Canadian cinema based on theme-genre (strong women, nature as oppressor in dysfunctional family melodramas) in which female characters, as well as their personas, interact with both a physical geography and a social space to define a Canadian identity.
Never satisfied: Dissatisfied women, hysteric men in 1980s Turkey
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2012) Gökçem, Selen; Akser, Murat
The feminist movement in the 1980s Turkey enabled women to question women?s sexual emancipation. The raise of educated women, individuality and sexual emancipation helped shaping the new educated urban women image in the 1980s Turkey. The woman directors of 1980s Turkey made several women themed films in which the woman characters were represented as educated, working, economically free and sexually emancipated. Yet, the representation of sexually emancipated women in these films resulted in women hysteria. This study identifies the representation of 1980s educated emancipated women in Turkish woman directors? films that resulted in three basic outcomes; they are women hysteria, male hysteria and women?s self-sacrifice
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Reinvigorating Film Studies: An Immodest Proposal
(Univ Pittsburgh, Univ Library System, 2011) Akser, Murat
CINEJ Cinema Journal is a newcomer to the field of film studies. It is committed to publishing fresh and original research in the fields of film and media studies. The need for such a journal is result of emergence of fresh perspectives in film studies and the absence of an outlet to incorporate such ideals.
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Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023) Baybars, Banu; Baybars, Banu
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 and closely analyzes the historical pressures imposed on journalists through legal and informal means. We focus particularly on the economic and political pressure on the media in Turkey and offer three arguments regarding the fear in Turkish media: (1) Media fear is historical rather than a rupture that happened during the Justice and Development Party era; (2) out of fear of losing power, the governments use structural, legislative and extra-legal factors to the advantage of the ruling party to support a friendly media-ecology; and (3) the repressed media attempt to come out of this ecology of fear by utilizing new tactics of reporting, such as alternative media and citizen journalism.