Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem

Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem

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Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem
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S. Koçer Çamurdan
Suncem, Koçer Çamurdan
Kocer Camurdan, Suncem
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S. Kocer Camurdan
Suncem, Kocer Camurdan
Kocer, Suncem
Çamurdan, Suncem Koçer
Koçer, Süncem
Kocer, Suncem
Çamurda, Suncem Koçer
Koçer, Suncem
Koçer, S.
Çamurdan, Suncem Koçer

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Doç. Dr.

Email Address

Suncem.kocer@khas.edu.tr

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Making Transnational Publics: Circuits of Censorship and Technologies of Publicity in Kurdish Media Circulation
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem; Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem
Kurdish media producers who interweave social and political agendas with their filmmaking are often marginalized within Turkish media worlds. Impeded by national censorship these filmmakers move between national and transnational media worlds to advance their cinematic work. Such movement helps them create and maintain transnational publics that reinforce circulation of their media texts. Here I analyze how a documentary film about a seminomadic Kurdish community moves through international screening venues. As it journeys through film festivals in Europe its director Kazim oz accompanies it and through deliberate discourse attempts to increase and accelerate the film's transnational circulation. I explore the ways that oz discursively globalizes his film relates it to festival audiences flags the politics of Kurdish media production and seeks to construct a European public sensitive to the plight of Turkey's Kurds.
Folk Theories of False Information: a Mixed-Methods Study in the Context of Covid-19 in Turkey
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2022) Kocer, Suncem; Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem; Oz, Bahadir; Okcuoglu, Gulten; Tapramaz, Fezal
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 of folk theories, which are the intuitive explanatory tools users develop to make sense of and act in the world around them. Based on mixed-method research conducted in Turkey during the Covid-19 pandemic, we identify three prevailing folk theories of false information. First, users consider text-based characteristics, such as the presence of evidence as a flag of accuracy/inaccuracy. Second, users assume that people in their social networks distinguish between the accurate and the inaccurate, and thus the information coming from these circles is accurate. Finally, users imagine that people whose worldviews conflict with theirs spread inaccurate information. Despite users' overarching references to textual traits of news, it appears that the latter two folk theories drive users' information processing practices in daily life.
Invented Myths in Contemporary Turkish Political Advertising
(Springer, 2016) Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem; Yalkın, Çağrı
This article focuses on the November 2015 elections in Turkey and analyzes the discourses embedded in the political campaign videos produced and circulated by the Justice and Development Party (ruling party since 2002) Republican People's Party (first political party of the republic) People's Democratic Party (main vehicle of the Kurdish politics) and Nationalist Movement Party (ethno-nationalist party). Republic of Turkey's construction in the national imagination over the past 90 years have both rested on and reproduced a range of themes which are themselves based on recently invented nationalist myths such as the common enemy the multicultural mosaic order and progress fight against imperialism the break from the Ottoman empire and Turkey as bridge between east-and-west. Hence we argue that regardless of their severely diverse stance on key issues in the political realm all the political parties use the hegemony's myths as tools in their advertisements therefore reifying these themes in the public imagination.
Social Business in Online Financing: Crowdfunding Narratives of Independent Documentary Producers in Turkey
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2015) Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem; Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem
Crowdfunding is a relatively novel concept in Turkish public discourse. Yet activist media producers in Turkey actively use online opportunities to solicit production post-production and distribution financing. This article explores crowdfunding as a signifier that draws public attention to media texts for which online funding drives are performed. As crowdfunding campaigns circulate through social media they forge publics around the related films videos stories and more significantly the social causes around which these media revolve. Based on long-term ethnographic research with independent media producers in Turkey the article scrutinizes the crowdfunding adventures behind three documentaries My Child Ecumenopolis and I Flew You Stayed as narrated by their producers. Using the analysis of the campaigns for these documentary films as cases I argue that in addition to being a means to raising funds crowdfunding is a tool to accomplish social and political ends ranging from creating communities of support and attracting media attention to building a reputation of independence.
Sosyal Medya Platformlarında Ceo Sözcülüğü ve Kurumsal Kriz İletişimi: Yaşar Holding Krizi'nin Sosyal Ceo'luk Bağlamında İncelenmesi
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2019) Kaya, Buse; Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem; Çamurda, Suncem Koçer
İnternet kullanımının yaygınlaşması sosyal medya platformlarını hayatın bir parçası haline getirmekle birlikte, öznel iletişim kanallarının kullanım şeklini etkilerken, kurumların iletişim stratejileri konusunda da büyük değişimler yaratmıştır. Sosyal medya platformları içerikleri kısa bir sürede büyük kitlelere ulaştırabilen yapısı itibariyle, kişilerin ilgisini çekmesinin yanı sıra kurumlar için de birçok avantajı beraberinde getirmektedir. Sosyal medya platformları iletişim çalışmalarına olan uygunluğunu ile kurumlar tarafından da etkin şekilde kullanmaktadır. Ancak burada, sosyal medya kullanımı konusunda dikkat edilmesi gereken hususlar doğmakta ve kurumların faydasına görünen bu interaktif iletişim kanalının kurumlar için birer tehdit oluşturduğu da unutulmamalıdır. Sosyal medya platformlarının yaygın kullanımı ile kurumlar her an bir krizle karşı karşıya kalma ihtimalini göz önünde bulundurarak iç ve dış iletişiminde sosyal medya kullanımına itina göstermelidir. Günümüzde özellikle üst düzey yöneticilerin sosyal medya platformlarındaki artan görünürlüğü ile dolaylı yoldan kurumu da temsil ettikleri şahsi sosyal medya hesaplarından yaptıkları paylaşımlar, kurum için krize sebebiyet verirken yıllarca ve özenle inşa edilen itibarı da kısa sürede örselemektedir. Bu çalışmada, 16 Nisan 2017 tarihinde cumhurbaşkanlığı referandum sonuçlarının açıklanmasının ardından Yaşar Holding Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı Selim Yaşar'ın Facebook hesabından paylaştığı siyasi düşüncesiyle alakalı bir içerikle temsil ettiği kurum olan Yaşar Holding'i büyük bir krize sürüklemesi vakası derinlemesine incelenecektir ve "kriz iletişiminde kurum sözcülüğü" ile "sosyal medyada kurum temsili ve yaşanabilecek olası krizler" gibi kavramlar üzerine içerik analizi yapılacaktır. Anahtar Sözcükler: sosyal medya, kurumsal iletişim, kriz, kriz iletişimi, kurumsal iletişim, Yaşar Holding, kurum sözcülüğü, CEO sözcülüğü
Ethnographic Cinema, Anthropology and Issues of Representational Authority in Visual Documentation of Culture
(İmge Kitabevi Yayınları, 2015) Çamurdan Koçer, Suncem; Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem
Ethnographic film has offered unique tools for cultural documentation since the emergence of motion pictures. However, visual representations of culture have had a problematic relationship with the larger discipline of anthropology for decades in part due to the threat of the camera to replace the scientific yet imperfect eye of the anthropologist with a technological tool. This article argues that the rocky relationship between anthropology and the moving image has deeper roots in the epistemological constructions of Self and Other, Home and Field, as well as Modern and Primitive. In conjunction with the dissolution of anthropological authority, a number of ethnographic films dealt with theoretical and ethical questions in relation to the issues of representational authority. The article illustrates three different ethnographic and filmic approaches to the issue: Reassemblage by Trinh T. Min-ha, The Wedding Camels by Judith and David MacDougal and Jaguar by Jean Rouch.
Trust in News in the Context of Political Polarization: a Case Study of Turkey
(Taylor and Francis, 2022) Bozdağ, Ç.; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem; Koçer, S.; Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem
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Kurdish Cinema as a Transnational Discourse Genre: Cinematic Visibility, Cultural Resilience, and Political Agency
(Cambrıdge Univ Press, 2014) Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem; Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem
Within the last few years, "Kurdish cinema" has emerged as a unique discursive subject in Turkey. Subsequent to and in line with efforts to unify Kurdish cultural production in diaspora, Kurdish intellectuals have endeavored to define and frame the substance of Kurdish cinema as an orienting framework for the production and reception of films by and about Kurds. In this article, my argument is threefold. First, Kurdish cinema has emerged as a national cinema in transnational space. Second, like all media texts, Kurdish films are nationalized in discourse. Third, the communicative strategies used to nationalize Kurdish cinema must be viewed both in the context of the historical forces of Turkish nationalism and against a backdrop of contemporary politics in Turkey, specifically the Turkish government's discourses and policies related to the Kurds. The empirical data for this article derive from ethnographic research in Turkey and Europe conducted between 2009 and 2012.
Skeptical Inertia in the Face of Polarization: News Consumption and Misinformation in Turkey
(Cogitatio Press, 2022) Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem; Kocer, Suncem
Focusing on Turkey, this article analyzes the role of polarization on news users' perception of misinformation and mistrust in the news on social media. Turkey is one of the countries where citizens complain most about misinformation on the internet. The citizens' trust in news institutions is also in continuous decline. Furthermore, both Turkish society and its media landscape are politically highly polarized. Focusing on Turkey's highly polarized environment, the article aims to analyze how political polarization influences the users' trust in the news and their perceptions about misinformation on social media. The study is based on multi-method research, including focus groups, media diaries, and interviews with people of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. The article firstly demonstrates different strategies that the users develop to validate information, including searching for any suspicious information on search engines, looking at the comments below the post, and looking at other news media, especially television. Secondly, we will discuss how more affective mechanisms of news assessment come into prominence while evaluating political news. Although our participants are self-aware and critical about their partisan attitudes in news consumption and evaluation, they also reveal media sources to which they feel politically closer. We propose the concept of skeptical inertia to refer to this self-critical yet passive position of the users in the face of the polarized news environment in Turkey.
İlac Sektorundeki İletisim Uzmanlarinin Gozunden Yeni Rtuk Kanunuyla Degisen İletisim Faaliyetlerinin Saglik İletisimine Etkileri
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2016) Bekci, Neriman; Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem; Koçer, Suncem
2011 yilinda cikan RTuK kanunuyla birlikte ilac firmalari recetesiz ilaclarla ilgili reklam ve tanitim faaliyeti yapabilme serbestligi elde etti. Gunumuzde de bu kanun guncelligini korumaktadir. Bu dogrultuda recetesiz ilaclar hakkindaki kanun degisikligi ilac sirketlerinin iletisim faaliyetlerinde degisime sebep olmustur. Ayni zamanda bu yeni iletisim faaliyetlerinin ilac sirketi iletisim uzmanlarinin gozunden saglik iletisimi ile ilgili bagi bu alana katkilari olup olmadigi sorgulanmistir. Bu calisma kapsamda saglik iletisimi ve Turkiye’deki saglik iletisim tarihi irdelenmistir. Tezde degisen iletisim faaliyetlerinin saglik iletisimine katkilari oldugu hipotezi savunulmus ve arastirma sonuclarina gore dogrulanmistir. Turkiye’de bu konuda yapilan calismalara ornek olmasi acisindan Bayer Turkiye Sandoz Turkiye Abdi Ýbrahim ve Boehringer ingelheim Turkiye sirketlerinin iletisim departman yoneticileri ile mulakat yapilmistir.