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The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francıs Ltd, 2020) Yanardağoğlu, Eylem; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
[Abstract Not Available]
Changing Practices in International Broadcasting the Bbc World Service Example
(Ankara Univ, Fac Communication, 2014) Yanardagoglu, Eylem; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
Looking at the history of international broadcasting, one can observe that governments utilised international media as an element of public diplomacy as early as 1930s. Some of the first examples are seen at the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) World Service, which runs a Turkish Service since 1939. This research examines the factors that impact on international broadcasting and takes the BBC World Service as an example. It focuses on its Turkish Section in order to consider the changing practices at its language services and explore the influence of the issues such as public diplomacy, technological advances and economic policies on these language services. The BBC World Service and the Turkish section are chosen because they constitute one of the first examples of international broadcasting efforts. The findings are based on data that were collected via in-depth interviews conducted with editors and producers in 2011 at the World Service Central Newsroom and the Turkish Service. This research was funded by TUBITAK (the Scientific and Research Council of Turkey) post-doctoral study abroad bursary, at the Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster in London, where the researcher was based as a visiting scholar.
Changing Practices in International Broadcasting the Bbc World Service Example
(Ankara Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi, 2014) Yanardağoğlu, Eylem; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
Looking at the history of international broadcasting, one can observe that governments utilised international media as an element of public diplomacy as early as 1930s. Some of the first examples are seen at the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) World Service, which runs a Turkish Service since 1939. This research examines the factors that impact on international broadcasting and takes the BBC World Service as an example. It focuses on its Turkish Section in order to consider the changing practices at its language services and explore the influence of the issues such as public diplomacy, technological advances and economic policies on these language services. The BBC World Service and the Turkish section are chosen because they constitute one of the first examples of international broadcasting efforts. The findings are based on data that were collected via in-depth interviews conducted with editors and producers in 2011 at the World Service Central Newsroom and the Turkish Service. This research was funded by TÜBİTAK (the Scientific and Research Council of Turkey) post-doctoral study abroad bursary, at the Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster in London, where the researcher was based as a visiting scholar.
Citizenship, Media and Activism in Turkey During Gezi Park Protests
(Routledge, 2024) Yanardagoglu, Eylem; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
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Citizenship, Media and Activism in Turkey during Gezi Park Protests1
(Taylor and Francis, 2023) Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
In the decade that followed the Arab Spring, hopes for greater democratization in the Arabic speaking countries and their neighbours have waned. The political activism in Turkey has grown in the immediate years after the Gezi Park protests especially due to the increasing role of social media as an alternative venue for information exchange for citizens. However, the media freedom began to decline especially after the failed coup in 2016 onward and democratic backsliding have been more prominent. This chapter examines the use of Twitter during the Gezi Park protests and explores the ways in which it motivated or facilitated democratic participation. The data presented here are drawn from independent research efforts of a number of academics who collaborated in data collection, which combines a quantitatively driven social network analysis of approximately one million archived tweets, followed by in-depth interviews in order to collect personal accounts of motivations for online participation of protestors during the Gezi Protests. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Nael Jebril and Mohammed-Ali Abunajela; individual chapters, the contributors.
Conclusion
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) Yanardağoğlu, E.; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
The birth of the so called Justice and Development Party proponent media and increased media capture leading to an eventual collapse of what was known as mainstream news media, catalysed the emergence of native digital and platform-based news media in which new players emerged. These new players emphasised ‘do it yourself’ and ‘self-actualizing citizenship’ (Kligler-Vilenchik, New Media & Society 19:1887–1903, 2017) because their main emphasis was on maintaining democratic standards and independence in media and communication. New media convergence afford entrepreneurial journalists; media professionals and content producers to fill a gap in the news media that was previously filled with the mainstream. However, this potential may be overshadowed by a number of internal and external factors related to contemporary journalism’s global vulnerability; these include sustainability of revenue models, precarisation of journalism and political polarisation. This chapter offers a general summary of the preceding work and offers concluding reflections. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Covering Turkey: the Dilemmas of Foreign Correspondents Between the Desk and the Field
(Galatasaray Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi, 2014) Yanardağoğlu, Eylem; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
In the last decade, Turkey’s appeal for international news organizations has risen dramatically. In 1991, there were 85 accredited foreign reporters based in Turkey, the number was recorded as 145 in 2000, 200 in 2005. At the end of 2013, there were 317 accredited members of the foreign media, working for 284 different media organizations. This study accounts for the noticeable increase in the number of foreign correspondents in Turkey. By analyzing data collected via 20 in-depth interviews and online questionnaires, it offers insight on the personal and professional characteristics and practices of foreign journalists covering Turkey. The findings suggest that correspondents “feel responsible” for explaining the complexities in Turkey for their audiences, highlighting the dilemmas between the “desk” and the “field”. They also indicate that Istanbul as an emerging global city does in its own right attracts new media connections.
Cultural Identity in 'fragile Communities: Greek Orthodox Minority Media in Turkey
(Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014) Yanardağoğlu, Eylem; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
[Abstract Not Available]
Cultural identity in ‘fragile’ communities: Greek orthodox minority media in Turkey
(Taylor and Francis, 2016) Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
The appropriation of community media by ethno-religious minorities raises questions about the relationship between media, ethnicity, identity and citizenship. Scholars consider minority media institutions instrumental for the transmission of memory and traditions and the survival of language and culture against the homogenizing effects of national or global cultures, especially in the case of ‘fragile’ diasporic communities (Dayan 1998).1 This is of particular relevance to Greek community media in Istanbul,2 which constitute the focus of this chapter. The non-Muslim minority communities in Turkey, namely the Armenians, Jews and Istanbul Greeks are the legacy of the Ottoman Empire’s demographic make-up, which has dwindled dramatically over the 20th century. They were administered by one of the oldest system of governance of minorities, known as the millet system3 in the Ottoman Empire (Preece 1997). Due to their historical entitlement to certain cultural rights, these communities boast an uninterrupted and diverse media and publishing tradition since the Ottoman period. Thus, compared with ethnic media practices, which emerged in Europe as a result of contemporary skilled and nonskilled labour migration, the non-Muslim minority media in Turkey have a longer history making them one of the oldest ethnic/minority media examples in Europe.4. © 2014 Vally Lytra.
Elusive Citizenship: Media, Minorities and Freedom of Communication in Turkey in the Last Decade
(Galatasaray Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi, 2013) Yanardağoğlu, Eylem; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
This paper is based on a presentation delivered at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford on 21st of May 2012 as part of the Seminar Series “Authority, Censorship and Subversion in Turkey: Culture and Society in the AKP Years”. It reviews the developments that took place in realm of freedom of communication and media in the last decade.1 Through interviews with editors and journalists, this presentation demonstrates that the exercise of democratic citizenship through the media and freedom of communication in Turkey is inversely correlated to deepening of AKP’s power in governance.
Europeanisation Reforms and Early AKP Era
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
This chapter focuses on some key events involving minority language media, mainstream and digital media in the 2000s. After Turkey’s candidate status was accepted in 1999, a set of Europeanisation reforms was implemented by two governments: Democratic Left Party, Motherland Party and Nationalist Movement Party (DSP–ANAP–MHP) coalition, and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government that came to power in November 2002. Public service broadcaster TRT began broadcasts in 2004 and local private channels began to broadcast in Kurdish in 2006. The second tenure of the AKP government began on 22 July in 2007. From 2007 onwards, the momentum of Europeanisation began to decline and media capture and media autocracy intensified. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Facebook Usage for the Women Between the Ages 55-65 Years Old
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2016) Daloğulları, Deniz; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
The current study investigates the special in-group dynamics of women between 55-65 years, and demonstrates the need for "Facebook usage" for that specific age group. The research question assesses the reasons behind the Facebook usage need and intention, for the women between 55-65 years. It is true that the underlying reasons behind social media usage is related to many sociologic and psychological factors, and the Facebook usage of women aged between 55-65 can only be explained by first examining the sociologic and psychological needs of the women in the group. The current study is important at the point of being the first study in Turkey, which especially focuses on the social media usage of middle-aged women, rather than focusing on the social media usage trends among youth, and which investigates the underlying hidden reasons behind Facebook usage. In the scope of the research, interviews are conducted with 15 participants and the results are investigated by sentiment and qualitative analysis. Participants are 55-65 year old women and in addition to that conducted with 10 participant 18-35 year old women for comparison. According to the results of the study, it is found out that women aged between 55 and 65 mainly use Facebook for the reasons of self-actualization, socialization and self-valuation. In addition, even though the middle aged women use Facebook in the same amount or less than the young people, they attach a higher meaning on Facebook. It can also be said that women in 55-65 age group relate Facebook with their self-identity.
Foreign Correspondents in Turkey Between the Home and Host Agendas
(Taylor & Francis Inc, 2014) Yanardağoğlu, Eylem; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem; Tiliç, L. Dogan
[Abstract Not Available]
From Television To Internet: Convergence in Television Series in Turkey
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2019) Turhallı, Neval; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
This study aims to understand the convergence of television series in Turkey as distribution platforms move from television to internet. It adopts qualitative research methods where a number of in-depth interviews were conducted with producers, directors, script writers, content managers and representatives of internet-distributed television platforms working in both mainstream television and web series. The study discusses technological, cultural and economic convergence in television series in turkey in terms of similarities and differences between video on demand and mainstream television. Therefore, original web series of Blu TV, Puhu TV and Netflix are compared with mainstream television series in terms of their production processes. The findings indicate that convergence is evident in the case of series in turkey. Considerable tendency t
From Trt To Netflix: Implications of Convergence for Television Dramas in Turkey
(Springer International Publishing, 2020) Yanardağoğlu, E.; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem; Turhallı, N.
Since the1980s, the television (TV) drama has proved to be one of the most dominant formats on Turkish TV channels and occupied major slots on primetime throughout the 1990s and 2000s. As Internet penetration grew, on-demand services transformed audiences’ expectations of TV series. Internet series first became a trend on YouTube in 2013, and Netflix began broadcasting in Turkey at the beginning of 2016. Its entry to the sector triggered video-on-demand suppliers like Blu TV and Puhu TV which are digital enterprises of Doğan and Doğus? Holdings. Blu TV announced their first original project in 2017, Masum (Innocent), which was a big-budget series that included famous actors. In the same year, Puhu TV released their first original, Fi (Phi). Finally, Netflix launched their first original production in Turkey, Hakan: The Protector, in 2018. This chapter focuses on the implications of convergence for the production and distribution of TV dramas and considers the changes in the sector as television broadcasting shifted to new media platforms in Turkey. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020, corrected publication 2021.
Highly Educated People's Approaches To News on New Media
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2019) Baş, Dilara Eldaş; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
Bu tez, sorumluluk almaya ve sorgulamaya gönüllü iyi eğitimli kişilerin özellikle haber sitelerinde yayınlanan içeriklere karşı yaklaşımlarını ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu bağlamda, yüksek eğitimli 25 kişiye 11 soru modeli yöneltilmiştir. Bulgulara göre, başlangıç seviyesindekilerin ve bazı ilerlemeye başlama seviyesindekilerin durumları bir cümleyle özetlenebilir: "Sorgularlarken ilk gördüklerinden fazla etkinleniyorlar." Medya okuryazarlığı ile ilgilenen bu kişiler en çok haber siteleri, internet blogları ve forumları, ve TV haber programları arasında geziniyor olabilir. Ancak yine de sıra bilgiyi değerlendirmeye gelince; ilk bakışta gördüklerine dayanarak, okuyup sorgulama yetenekleri ile bakıp hızlı karar verme tarafları kolayca yer değiştirebiliyor. Bu bulgu, eğitimli insanlar arasında görsel-şekil değerlerinin, yaygın inancın aksine, hala kelimelerden daha önemli olduğunu göstermektedir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Dijital Medya Okuryazarlığı, Yeni Medya, İnternet haberleri, İnternet Reklamları, Doğal Reklam, Haber Doğrulama, Tık Tuzağı, Manipülasyon, Sahte Haber, Görsel Okuryazarlık This thesis aims to reveal approaches of well-educated people who are willing to take responsibility and interrogate, especially to the contents published in news websites. In this context, 11 questions modal were asked to 25 highly educated people. According to the findings, positions of beginners and some emerged levels can be summed up in one sentence: "They are over-impressed by what it is seen first while interrogating." Those media literacy concerned people may be most able to flit between news websites, Internet blogs and forums, and TV news programs. But still when it comes to evaluating information, they can easily substitute their reading and questioning the ability to their looking and easy-deciding part according to what they see at first glance. It shows that the visual-shape values still moreover important than words among educated people contrary to popular belief. Key Words: Digital Media Literacy, New Media, Internet news, Internet Advertorial, Native Advertising, Fact-Checking, Click-Bait, Manipulation, Fake News, Visual Literacy
How Does New Media Affect the Creative Department of Advertising Agencies in Turkey?
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2014) Özdemir, Serpil; Özdemir, Serpil; Binay Kurultay, Ayşe; Yalkın, Çağrı; Binay Kurultay, Ayşe; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
Bu çalışmanın amacı, yeni birer reklam mecrası haline dönüşen dijital platformların Türk Reklam Ajanslarının kreatif departmanlarının işleyişine etkilerini araştırmaktır. Reklam sektöründe son yıllarda yaşanan dijital dönüşümün, reklamın en önemli unsuru olan yaratıcılık becerisini nasıl değiştirdiğini, yaratıcı departmanların bu değişimle birlikte nasıl bir dönüşüm yaşadığını incelemektir. Öncelikle reklam tarihinin ve yaratıcılığın tarihsel gelişiminin inceleneceği bu çalışmada yakın zamanda ortaya çıkan geleneksel ajans-dijital ajans ayırımının yaratıcı departmanlarda çalışan reklamcıların iş ve görev tanımlarına nasıl yansıdığnın incelemesi yapılacaktır. Yakın zamanda Türkiye'deki yaratıcı ajansların yapısal değişikliğine dair yapılacak bu çalışma için otuza yakın üst düzey yaratıcı-yöneticilerle derin mülakat yapılması hedeflenmektedir. Farklı ajans türlerinden- Geleneksel ajanslardan, dijital ajanslardan, sosyal medya ajanslarından, entegre ajanslardan seçilmiş yaratıcı reklamcılara üç önemli konu hakkında sorular sorulacaktır: 1. Yeni medya, reklam ajanslarının kreatif departmanlarını yapısal olarak nasıl değiştirdi? Bu deparmanlarda çalışanların iş ve görev tanımlarını değiştirdi mi? Değiştirdiyse nasıl? 2. Yeni medyanın, reklam ajanslarındaki yaratıcı departmanların fonksiyonlarına etkisi ne oldu? Yaratıcı süreci nasıl etkiledi? 3. Yeni medya, yaratıcı ajansların müşterileriyle ilişkilerini hangi yönde etkiledi? Ajanslar arası ilişkileri nasıl yapılandırdı? Bu çalışmanın sonunda hedeflenen, dijital devrimin neden olduğu yeni medyanın ihtiyaçlarına cevap verecek, aynı zamanda geleneksel mecralara etkin yaratıcı çözümler sunan en etkili yaratıcı departmanın tarifini yaparak yakın geleceğin ideal reklam ajanslarıyla ilgili öngörüler geliştirmektir.
'i Stopped Reading Newspapers Because of the Internet!': News Consumption Behaviour of Youth in Greece and Turkey
(Intellect Ltd, 2022) Yanardagoglu, Eylem; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
Digitalization of news organizations and other traditional media presents an ongoing struggle. Although there is a general decline in news consumption in all ages, youth in particular seems to be `tuning out' of news globally. The Reuters Institute Digital News Report published in 2016 by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, announced that news accessed via social media sites increased in Europe (average 46 per cent) where Greece and Turkey were high adoption countries with 74 and 73 per cent usage rates, respectively. These numbers dropped in the 2018 report to 66 per cent in Turkey and 71 per cent in Greece. This research explores the factors that influence college students' news consumption behaviour in Greece and Turkey through an interpretative approach. Data collection was done in 2017 in Athens and Istanbul with voluntary participation of 40 college students who study in public and private universities.
Introduction
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) Yanardağoğlu, E.; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
This study considers the media system in Turkey through the lens of rights and citizenship. It attempts to bring together a perspective that considers processes such as Europeanisation, de-Europeanisation and digitalisation in relation to communication and citizenship, thereby arriving at a holistic view of the transformation of the media under the rule of Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party. It tracks the transformation of the media, in all its aspects (mainstream, minority, alternative, digital), since the beginning of the 2000s through normative, communicative and participative citizenship trajectories and through entrepreneurial citizenship practices. There is an ever-present need to make sense of the country’s recent political changes, which have spanned more than two decades and reflect the transition from a democratising, Europeanising parliamentary republic to a presidential system. This chapter includes the studies and fieldwork from which the data are drawn, and reviews the relationship between media and citizenship in a European context. It also introduces the remaining chapters and describes the structure of the book. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
'just the Way My Generation Reads the News': News Consumption Habits of Youth in Turkey and the Uk
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2020) Yanardağoğlu, Eylem; Yanardağoğlu, Eylem
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. This research explores the factors that influence college students' news consumption behaviour in the United Kingdom and Turkey through an interpretative approach. The data are based on qualitative in-depth interviews with around 50 students studying in major universities in London and Istanbul. The findings show overarching common trends such as increased mobile news access, incidental exposure to news on social media, irregular snacking and verifying of news that drive youth's news consumption behaviour. Findings also show that traditional media use for news has almost been replaced by online media and the modality of traditional media do not easily fit in with youth's daily routine of studies, work and commute.