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Articles by Burak Ozcetin

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2024

This study presents a multimodal discourse analysis of three historical videos produced by the Pr... more This study presents a multimodal discourse analysis of three historical videos produced by the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye Directorate of Communications. The Directorate, chiefly operating as a partisan bureaucratic-cum-political apparatus of the ruling political party in Turkey, the Justice and Development Party, produces videos to recast the history of Turkey in line with the ruling party's neo-Ottomanist, nationalist, militarist, and Islamist agenda. These three videos reviewed refer to the discursive building blocks of the AKP's so-called Islamic populist worldview in recent years: the glorious Ottoman past, accumulation and glorification of military power, and a holy cause. The historical repository used in the videos reasserts the loneliness of Turkey, the utmost belief in and dedication to the nation's leader, Turkey's emergence as a regional power, and the primacy of the nation's will. The article discusses the authoritarian and exclusionary implications of the misuse of history by official agencies.

International Migration, 2024

This study aims to analyse the activities and discourses of the non-governmental organizations (N... more This study aims to analyse the activities and discourses of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the field of migration in Turkey. The research explores how the NGOs frame the issue of migration differently and how they define and comprehend migration, migrants, and refugees. The article discusses whether the NGOs view

The Political Football Stadium: Identity Discourses and Power Struggles

We would like to thank Başak Alpan, who encouraged us to do a study of football and enriched our ... more We would like to thank Başak Alpan, who encouraged us to do a study of football and enriched our chapter with her comments and insightful suggestions. Some early parts of this chapter were

European Journal of Communication

European Journal of Communication, 2023

Communication is among the most used and least theorized concepts across various disciplines, inc... more Communication is among the most used and least theorized concepts across various disciplines, including communication studies. There are many communication theories and models, most of which take communication for granted, only as a name and an unproblematic/self-evident concept. The concept's ambiguity relates to the definition of borders and the discipline's content. In 'Communication theory and the disciplines', Jefferson D. Pooley (2016a) presents an exhaustive list of disciplines that relate or are sensitive to communication theory, including sociology, psychology, political science, geography, economics, philosophy, history, literary studies, and cognate fields such as cultural studies, visual studies, game studies, popular music studies, gender studies, and LGBT studies. Located at the intersection of various disciplines, communication studies host a plethora of analytical frameworks, epistemological paradigms, and research interests. However, 'what it gained in intellectual richness. .. it lacked in disciplinary focus and shared identity' (Waisbord, 2019). Labeling communication studies as a post-discipline, Waisbord points to ontological plurality, theoretical heteroglossia, hyper-specialization of contemporary scholarship, and the overall decline of grand theories as the main reasons for the identity crisis. Communication is defined as connection, dialogue, expression, information, persuasion, and symbolic interaction (Waisbord, 2019). However, the ontological status of communication as such has not been adequately elaborated. What defines communication scholarship? What is the object and subject of communication? Most important of all, what is communication? These questions remain and seem to remain valid in the foreseeable future.

Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2019

In this article, I discuss the emergence and transformation of Islamic television broadcasting in... more In this article, I discuss the emergence and transformation of Islamic television broadcasting in Turkey. In the 1990s, Islamic channels were launched as a challenge to the so-called moral degeneracy of infotainment channels and claimed to represent an alternative form and content. However, far from presenting an alternative broadcasting style, Islamic channels rapidly succumbed to the logic of capital and the imperatives of commercial broadcasting. I argue that the transformation of Islamic broadcasting is related to the overall transformation of Islamism in Turkey.

European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2019

This article explores the relationship between populism, media and popular culture in Turkey by f... more This article explores the relationship between populism, media and popular culture in Turkey by focusing on a phenomenal historical television series, Diriliş: Ertuğrul, and the discursive spaces opened by the show. The author relies on a symptomatic analysis of populism which conceptualizes the term as an anti-status quo discourse that simplifies the political space by symbolically dividing the society between 'the people' and its other, more specifically 'the elites'. Diriliş is promoted by the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi) elite and pro-government media as 'the show of the people', and as a cultural artifact belonging to the people. The show has been embraced as an alternative to morally degenerate cultural products of alienated Westernist/Kemalist cultural elites. The Justice and Development Party elites used every opportunity to incorporate the series into its populist political program. The article focuses on a specific crisis moment, 'The Golden Butterfly Awards 2016', and the ensuing debates to show how media discourse can resonate with the populist political discourse of a political party.

This article analyzes the way in which the downing of a Russian aircraft by a Turkish F-16 jet on... more This article analyzes the way in which the downing of a Russian aircraft by a Turkish F-16 jet on 24 November 2015 was framed by pro-government (Türkiye, Yeni Akit, Yeni Şafak) and anti-government (Cumhuriyet) newspapers. Framing means selecting some aspects of a perceived reality and making them more salient in a communicating text. News frames give us definitions and identify those responsible for an event; make moral judgements; and propose solutions to problems. The analysis of
the news frames utilized by four newspapers underlines the fact that in a polarized media environment news frames are highly politicized and the distinction between news frames and official discourse is frequently blurred.

This article problematizes the role played by a football fan club—Çarşı—in one of the largest soc... more This article problematizes the role played by a football fan club—Çarşı—in one of the largest social movements in Turkish political history, the Gezi Park protests of June 2013. The authors suggest that as “unusual suspects” in social movements, Çarşı’s role in the Gezi Park protests can be understood with the conceptual toolbox provided by theories of contentious politics. Since action repertoires, or “known sequences for acting together,” are key to contentious politics and social movements, Çarşı’s organized and effective performance during the Gezi Park protests shows how previous encounters with the police can be decisive in terms of social upheavals. This study suggests that Çarşı members, who were already accustomed to making ethical judgments on a variety of issues both political and non-political, should be taken as a prominent example of how supporters on terraces and fan clubs facilitate the framing processes described by the social movement literature.

Gerek Arap Baharı gerekse Gezi Parkı protestoları sırasında futbol taraftar gruplarının, özellikl... more Gerek Arap Baharı gerekse Gezi Parkı protestoları sırasında futbol taraftar gruplarının, özellikle de Ultraların şaşırtıcı bir şekilde protestoların önemli aktörlerden biri oluşuna tanık olduk. Mısır'da Develer Savaşı'nda ve sonrasında ve Türkiye'de de göstericilerle polis arasındaki çatışmalarda, taraftar grupları dağınık ve örgütsüz kitleleri bir araya toplayarak direnişe önemli bir destek vermiştir. Toplumsal hareketlerin bu sıra dışı aktörlerini sorunsallaştıran bu çalışma, Mısır ve Türkiye örneklerini belirli karşılaştırma öğeleri çerçevesinde ele almaktadır. Çekişmeci siyaset literatürünün sunduğu kavramsal çerçeveye yaslanan makalede siyasal fırsatlar, birikmiş bir çekişmenin varlığı, deneyim ve taraftar gruplarının mevcut eylem repertuvarları tartışılmaktadır. Makale siyasete demokratik katılım yollarının tıkandığı, devlet şiddetinin yaygın olduğu ve sokağın asli muhalefet ve protesto uzamı haline geldiği Mısır örneğinde taraftar gruplarının, tecrübeli sokak savaşçıları olarak toplumsal hareketlerin güçlü ve kalıcı unsurları haline geldiğini vurgulamaktadır.

Concerns regarding body and health colonize nearly all aspects of contemporary societies. Citizen... more Concerns regarding body and health colonize nearly all aspects of contemporary societies. Citizens are exposed to discourses disseminated from innumerable sources, on living a healthier, happier life and attaining a more desirable body. The common point for these discourses is their role in medicalization and individualization of health, i.e. approaching natural cycles of life as diseases and ignoring the social determinants of health. Health professionals, or “health opinion leaders”, occupy a strategic and advantageous position in this process. Most recently, web 1.0 and web 2.0 environments, especially social media outlets come forward among these sources. Social media provides health opinion leaders with opportunities to continuous and easy opinion/idea dissemination, and to mutual interaction with followers. Definition and promotion of diseases and fear; lifestyles and habits; beauty; longevity; performance and personal development; and naturalness lie at the center of their discursive strategy. This article suggests that social media discourses of health professionals on health and body must be considered within the context of medicalization and commodification of health in contemporary societies, and within the context of neoliberal governmentality.

Recent interest in the role of new media on politics has concentrated on the question whether the... more Recent interest in the role of new media on politics has concentrated on the question whether these novel communication channels enrich and enlarge more conventional ways of making politics. Problems such as debates over politicizing or depoliticizing character of new media; potentials of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 tech nologies as public spaces; and the so-called emancipatory or delimiting qualities of the Internet became matters of theoretical and empirical inquiry. In other words, new media has become a popular issue in the field of po litical communication. Vast majority of the work done in the field pointed to the fact that over-generalizations or theoretical reasoning alone will not provide the researcher with adequate answers regarding the relationship between politics and the new media. Instead, handled within a sound theoretical and methodological frame work, and through empirical investigation, the instances and moments of the relationship between politics and the new media must be carefully analyzed. Departing from these insights, current work studies the relationship between the new media and politics through focusing on Twitter use of politicians in Turkey. More specifically the study investigated the content of professional politicians' twitter use. It asked whether politicians' Twitter use promote citizen participation into politics and dialogue with politicians, or basically utilized for self-pro motion and representation by politicians. The study analyzed one month (May 2013) Twitter performances of 20 politicians (5 from each party) from political parties which has parliamentary group in the assembly (the Justice and Development Party, the Republican People's Party, the Nationalist Action Party, and the Peace and Democracy Party) and who are most active Twitter users. The study finds out that interaction is a significant aspect of politicians' Twitter use in Turkey, but the quality of interaction is far from promoting a participatory political environment through use of digital technologies.

iletişim: araştırmaları, 8 (2), 2013.

İzlerkitle çalışmalarına sosyolojik bir perspektiften yaklaşan bu çalışma mevcut araştırma gündem... more İzlerkitle çalışmalarına sosyolojik bir perspektiften yaklaşan bu çalışma mevcut araştırma gündemlerini eleştirel bir şekilde ele almakta ve yeni bir izlerkitle araştırma gündemi ile ilgili ipuçlarını tartışmaktadır. Çalışma, izlerkitle araştırmalarının tarihini etki araştırmaları, kullanımlar ve doyumlar kuramı, Kültürel Çalışmalar (kodlama/kodaçımı modeli) ve alımlama analizini tartışarak ele almaktadır. İzlerkitleyi ve televizyon izlerkitlesini konu alan alternatif yaklaşımların güçlü ve zayıf yanlarını tartışan çalışma, Türkiye'de izlerkitle çalışmalarından da bir kesit sunmaktadır. Çalışma, izlerkitleye yönelik özcü ve psikolojik indirgemeci yaklaşımların yetersizliğini vurgulamakta ve izlerkitleye inşacı ve sosyolojik bir perspektiften yaklaşmaktadır. Sınırları belli, toplumsal uzamda bir yer kaplayan ve araştırmacı tarafından keşfedilmeyi bekleyen bir izlerkitle algısının yerine televizyon izleme pratiğinin daha geniş toplumsal ve kültürel pratik ve yapılar içerisine yerleştirilmesi gerektiğini iddia etmektedir. İzlerkitle sosyolojisi olarak adlandırılan bu yaklaşım, gündelik yaşamın, beğenilerin ve kültürel kimliklerin kuruluşunda televizyon izleme pratiğinin rolüne odaklanmaktadır.

Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Volume 5, Number 3, 2012 , pp. 261-281(21)

This article presents a discursive analysis of religious conservative daily newspapers' response ... more This article presents a discursive analysis of religious conservative daily newspapers' response to Israeli commandos' attack on a flotilla of aid ships that were attempting to break an embargo on traffic to Gaza on 31 May 2010. The event not only caused a serious rupture in Israeli-Turkish relations but also resulted in the rise of (already present) anti-Israeli sentiment in the conservative religious sectors of society. Conservative religious media, more specifically the Islamic newspapers, led the anti-Israeli campaign within this process. The authors emphasize that news does not simply represent reality, but, as an active process, works on it. The institutional dependence on regular and reliable institutional sources and the ideological character of language are two major dynamics of this process. The journalistic routine imposes the statements of the institutional sources, or the voice of the powerful, as the only reliable and viable definition of events. The language used in the news enhances this partiality through use of stereotypical, bitter and discriminatory expressions. This article discusses the way news texts influence reality by focusing on the primary and secondary definers in the news, newspapers' oscillation between humanitarian and Islamic concerns, and between anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic positions.

folklor/edebiyat, cilt:78, sayı: 72, 2012/4

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2024

This study presents a multimodal discourse analysis of three historical videos produced by the Pr... more This study presents a multimodal discourse analysis of three historical videos produced by the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye Directorate of Communications. The Directorate, chiefly operating as a partisan bureaucratic-cum-political apparatus of the ruling political party in Turkey, the Justice and Development Party, produces videos to recast the history of Turkey in line with the ruling party's neo-Ottomanist, nationalist, militarist, and Islamist agenda. These three videos reviewed refer to the discursive building blocks of the AKP's so-called Islamic populist worldview in recent years: the glorious Ottoman past, accumulation and glorification of military power, and a holy cause. The historical repository used in the videos reasserts the loneliness of Turkey, the utmost belief in and dedication to the nation's leader, Turkey's emergence as a regional power, and the primacy of the nation's will. The article discusses the authoritarian and exclusionary implications of the misuse of history by official agencies.

International Migration, 2024

This study aims to analyse the activities and discourses of the non-governmental organizations (N... more This study aims to analyse the activities and discourses of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the field of migration in Turkey. The research explores how the NGOs frame the issue of migration differently and how they define and comprehend migration, migrants, and refugees. The article discusses whether the NGOs view

The Political Football Stadium: Identity Discourses and Power Struggles

We would like to thank Başak Alpan, who encouraged us to do a study of football and enriched our ... more We would like to thank Başak Alpan, who encouraged us to do a study of football and enriched our chapter with her comments and insightful suggestions. Some early parts of this chapter were

European Journal of Communication

European Journal of Communication, 2023

Communication is among the most used and least theorized concepts across various disciplines, inc... more Communication is among the most used and least theorized concepts across various disciplines, including communication studies. There are many communication theories and models, most of which take communication for granted, only as a name and an unproblematic/self-evident concept. The concept's ambiguity relates to the definition of borders and the discipline's content. In 'Communication theory and the disciplines', Jefferson D. Pooley (2016a) presents an exhaustive list of disciplines that relate or are sensitive to communication theory, including sociology, psychology, political science, geography, economics, philosophy, history, literary studies, and cognate fields such as cultural studies, visual studies, game studies, popular music studies, gender studies, and LGBT studies. Located at the intersection of various disciplines, communication studies host a plethora of analytical frameworks, epistemological paradigms, and research interests. However, 'what it gained in intellectual richness. .. it lacked in disciplinary focus and shared identity' (Waisbord, 2019). Labeling communication studies as a post-discipline, Waisbord points to ontological plurality, theoretical heteroglossia, hyper-specialization of contemporary scholarship, and the overall decline of grand theories as the main reasons for the identity crisis. Communication is defined as connection, dialogue, expression, information, persuasion, and symbolic interaction (Waisbord, 2019). However, the ontological status of communication as such has not been adequately elaborated. What defines communication scholarship? What is the object and subject of communication? Most important of all, what is communication? These questions remain and seem to remain valid in the foreseeable future.

Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2019

In this article, I discuss the emergence and transformation of Islamic television broadcasting in... more In this article, I discuss the emergence and transformation of Islamic television broadcasting in Turkey. In the 1990s, Islamic channels were launched as a challenge to the so-called moral degeneracy of infotainment channels and claimed to represent an alternative form and content. However, far from presenting an alternative broadcasting style, Islamic channels rapidly succumbed to the logic of capital and the imperatives of commercial broadcasting. I argue that the transformation of Islamic broadcasting is related to the overall transformation of Islamism in Turkey.

European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2019

This article explores the relationship between populism, media and popular culture in Turkey by f... more This article explores the relationship between populism, media and popular culture in Turkey by focusing on a phenomenal historical television series, Diriliş: Ertuğrul, and the discursive spaces opened by the show. The author relies on a symptomatic analysis of populism which conceptualizes the term as an anti-status quo discourse that simplifies the political space by symbolically dividing the society between 'the people' and its other, more specifically 'the elites'. Diriliş is promoted by the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi) elite and pro-government media as 'the show of the people', and as a cultural artifact belonging to the people. The show has been embraced as an alternative to morally degenerate cultural products of alienated Westernist/Kemalist cultural elites. The Justice and Development Party elites used every opportunity to incorporate the series into its populist political program. The article focuses on a specific crisis moment, 'The Golden Butterfly Awards 2016', and the ensuing debates to show how media discourse can resonate with the populist political discourse of a political party.

This article analyzes the way in which the downing of a Russian aircraft by a Turkish F-16 jet on... more This article analyzes the way in which the downing of a Russian aircraft by a Turkish F-16 jet on 24 November 2015 was framed by pro-government (Türkiye, Yeni Akit, Yeni Şafak) and anti-government (Cumhuriyet) newspapers. Framing means selecting some aspects of a perceived reality and making them more salient in a communicating text. News frames give us definitions and identify those responsible for an event; make moral judgements; and propose solutions to problems. The analysis of
the news frames utilized by four newspapers underlines the fact that in a polarized media environment news frames are highly politicized and the distinction between news frames and official discourse is frequently blurred.

This article problematizes the role played by a football fan club—Çarşı—in one of the largest soc... more This article problematizes the role played by a football fan club—Çarşı—in one of the largest social movements in Turkish political history, the Gezi Park protests of June 2013. The authors suggest that as “unusual suspects” in social movements, Çarşı’s role in the Gezi Park protests can be understood with the conceptual toolbox provided by theories of contentious politics. Since action repertoires, or “known sequences for acting together,” are key to contentious politics and social movements, Çarşı’s organized and effective performance during the Gezi Park protests shows how previous encounters with the police can be decisive in terms of social upheavals. This study suggests that Çarşı members, who were already accustomed to making ethical judgments on a variety of issues both political and non-political, should be taken as a prominent example of how supporters on terraces and fan clubs facilitate the framing processes described by the social movement literature.

Gerek Arap Baharı gerekse Gezi Parkı protestoları sırasında futbol taraftar gruplarının, özellikl... more Gerek Arap Baharı gerekse Gezi Parkı protestoları sırasında futbol taraftar gruplarının, özellikle de Ultraların şaşırtıcı bir şekilde protestoların önemli aktörlerden biri oluşuna tanık olduk. Mısır'da Develer Savaşı'nda ve sonrasında ve Türkiye'de de göstericilerle polis arasındaki çatışmalarda, taraftar grupları dağınık ve örgütsüz kitleleri bir araya toplayarak direnişe önemli bir destek vermiştir. Toplumsal hareketlerin bu sıra dışı aktörlerini sorunsallaştıran bu çalışma, Mısır ve Türkiye örneklerini belirli karşılaştırma öğeleri çerçevesinde ele almaktadır. Çekişmeci siyaset literatürünün sunduğu kavramsal çerçeveye yaslanan makalede siyasal fırsatlar, birikmiş bir çekişmenin varlığı, deneyim ve taraftar gruplarının mevcut eylem repertuvarları tartışılmaktadır. Makale siyasete demokratik katılım yollarının tıkandığı, devlet şiddetinin yaygın olduğu ve sokağın asli muhalefet ve protesto uzamı haline geldiği Mısır örneğinde taraftar gruplarının, tecrübeli sokak savaşçıları olarak toplumsal hareketlerin güçlü ve kalıcı unsurları haline geldiğini vurgulamaktadır.

Concerns regarding body and health colonize nearly all aspects of contemporary societies. Citizen... more Concerns regarding body and health colonize nearly all aspects of contemporary societies. Citizens are exposed to discourses disseminated from innumerable sources, on living a healthier, happier life and attaining a more desirable body. The common point for these discourses is their role in medicalization and individualization of health, i.e. approaching natural cycles of life as diseases and ignoring the social determinants of health. Health professionals, or “health opinion leaders”, occupy a strategic and advantageous position in this process. Most recently, web 1.0 and web 2.0 environments, especially social media outlets come forward among these sources. Social media provides health opinion leaders with opportunities to continuous and easy opinion/idea dissemination, and to mutual interaction with followers. Definition and promotion of diseases and fear; lifestyles and habits; beauty; longevity; performance and personal development; and naturalness lie at the center of their discursive strategy. This article suggests that social media discourses of health professionals on health and body must be considered within the context of medicalization and commodification of health in contemporary societies, and within the context of neoliberal governmentality.

Recent interest in the role of new media on politics has concentrated on the question whether the... more Recent interest in the role of new media on politics has concentrated on the question whether these novel communication channels enrich and enlarge more conventional ways of making politics. Problems such as debates over politicizing or depoliticizing character of new media; potentials of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 tech nologies as public spaces; and the so-called emancipatory or delimiting qualities of the Internet became matters of theoretical and empirical inquiry. In other words, new media has become a popular issue in the field of po litical communication. Vast majority of the work done in the field pointed to the fact that over-generalizations or theoretical reasoning alone will not provide the researcher with adequate answers regarding the relationship between politics and the new media. Instead, handled within a sound theoretical and methodological frame work, and through empirical investigation, the instances and moments of the relationship between politics and the new media must be carefully analyzed. Departing from these insights, current work studies the relationship between the new media and politics through focusing on Twitter use of politicians in Turkey. More specifically the study investigated the content of professional politicians' twitter use. It asked whether politicians' Twitter use promote citizen participation into politics and dialogue with politicians, or basically utilized for self-pro motion and representation by politicians. The study analyzed one month (May 2013) Twitter performances of 20 politicians (5 from each party) from political parties which has parliamentary group in the assembly (the Justice and Development Party, the Republican People's Party, the Nationalist Action Party, and the Peace and Democracy Party) and who are most active Twitter users. The study finds out that interaction is a significant aspect of politicians' Twitter use in Turkey, but the quality of interaction is far from promoting a participatory political environment through use of digital technologies.

iletişim: araştırmaları, 8 (2), 2013.

İzlerkitle çalışmalarına sosyolojik bir perspektiften yaklaşan bu çalışma mevcut araştırma gündem... more İzlerkitle çalışmalarına sosyolojik bir perspektiften yaklaşan bu çalışma mevcut araştırma gündemlerini eleştirel bir şekilde ele almakta ve yeni bir izlerkitle araştırma gündemi ile ilgili ipuçlarını tartışmaktadır. Çalışma, izlerkitle araştırmalarının tarihini etki araştırmaları, kullanımlar ve doyumlar kuramı, Kültürel Çalışmalar (kodlama/kodaçımı modeli) ve alımlama analizini tartışarak ele almaktadır. İzlerkitleyi ve televizyon izlerkitlesini konu alan alternatif yaklaşımların güçlü ve zayıf yanlarını tartışan çalışma, Türkiye'de izlerkitle çalışmalarından da bir kesit sunmaktadır. Çalışma, izlerkitleye yönelik özcü ve psikolojik indirgemeci yaklaşımların yetersizliğini vurgulamakta ve izlerkitleye inşacı ve sosyolojik bir perspektiften yaklaşmaktadır. Sınırları belli, toplumsal uzamda bir yer kaplayan ve araştırmacı tarafından keşfedilmeyi bekleyen bir izlerkitle algısının yerine televizyon izleme pratiğinin daha geniş toplumsal ve kültürel pratik ve yapılar içerisine yerleştirilmesi gerektiğini iddia etmektedir. İzlerkitle sosyolojisi olarak adlandırılan bu yaklaşım, gündelik yaşamın, beğenilerin ve kültürel kimliklerin kuruluşunda televizyon izleme pratiğinin rolüne odaklanmaktadır.

Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Volume 5, Number 3, 2012 , pp. 261-281(21)

This article presents a discursive analysis of religious conservative daily newspapers' response ... more This article presents a discursive analysis of religious conservative daily newspapers' response to Israeli commandos' attack on a flotilla of aid ships that were attempting to break an embargo on traffic to Gaza on 31 May 2010. The event not only caused a serious rupture in Israeli-Turkish relations but also resulted in the rise of (already present) anti-Israeli sentiment in the conservative religious sectors of society. Conservative religious media, more specifically the Islamic newspapers, led the anti-Israeli campaign within this process. The authors emphasize that news does not simply represent reality, but, as an active process, works on it. The institutional dependence on regular and reliable institutional sources and the ideological character of language are two major dynamics of this process. The journalistic routine imposes the statements of the institutional sources, or the voice of the powerful, as the only reliable and viable definition of events. The language used in the news enhances this partiality through use of stereotypical, bitter and discriminatory expressions. This article discusses the way news texts influence reality by focusing on the primary and secondary definers in the news, newspapers' oscillation between humanitarian and Islamic concerns, and between anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic positions.

folklor/edebiyat, cilt:78, sayı: 72, 2012/4

Kapitalizm ve Demokrasi Bir Zıtlığın Anatomisi, 2023

BU BÖLÜM, Adorno'nun kapitalizmle demokrasi arasındaki uyuşmazlığa dair kapsamlı ve çokkatmanlı e... more BU BÖLÜM, Adorno'nun kapitalizmle demokrasi arasındaki uyuşmazlığa dair kapsamlı ve çokkatmanlı eleştirisini ele alacak. Düşünürün kapitalizm ile demokrasi arasındaki uyuşmazlığı nasıl açıkladığını, bu açıklama sırasında hangi kavramları kullandığını ve bu uyuşmazlığı serimlemek için atıf yaptığı süreç ve mekanizmaları tartışacak. Çalışma, Adorno'nun politik, kültürel, ekonomik ve psikanalitik tahlillerinin tümünü kesen bireyin ve bireyin özerkliğinin tasfiyesi sorunsalını merkeze yerleştirecek. Tartışmada ikili bir strateji izleyecek: Bir yandan onun kapitalizmle demokrasi arasındaki imkânsız birlikteliğe dair yaptığı eleştirileri ele alırken, diğer yandan demokratik bir sistemin dayanması gereken felsefi ve kurumsal temeller hakkındaki formülasyonlarına değinecek.

Kitap Arka Kapağından Oldukça titiz ve yoğun bir çalışmanın ürünü olan Kitle İletişim Kuramları ... more Kitap Arka Kapağından

Oldukça titiz ve yoğun bir çalışmanın ürünü olan Kitle İletişim Kuramları iletişim kuramlarının ezberlenecek malumatlar bütününden ibaret olmadığını, sosyal ve beşeri bilimler içerisinde derinlikli, incelikli ve zor bir çalışma alanı olduğunu gösteriyor.
İletişim bilimlerindeki anaakım ve eleştirel kuramların düşünsel ve metodolojik farklılıklarını; toplum ve kitle iletişim araçları arasındaki ilişkilere dair kavramsal-kuramsal tartışmaları çeşitli yönleriyle ortaya koyan kitap önemli isimlerin kısa hayat hikâyeleri, okuma parçaları ve önerileriyle zenginleşiyor.
Burak Özçetin sade bir anlatımla Chicago Okulu’ndan Lippmann, Lasswell, McLuhan, Castells gibi isimlere, kitle iletişim modellerinden İngiliz kültürel çalışmalarına, iletişimin ekonomi politiğinden Frankfurt Okulu’na birçok kavram, kuram ve modelin soru, cevap ve işleyişlerine uzanarak geniş bir yelpaze çiziyor.
Alandaki büyük bir boşluğu doldurmaya aday Kitle İletişim Kuramları ders kitabı olarak temel bir kaynak niteliği taşırken, insan-toplum ve medya ilişkisine ilgi duyanlar için de kapsamlı bir rehber

Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea studies, Mar 4, 2024

Internet kullanimi ve internete erisim olanaklari arttikca, internet kanaatlerin sekillenmesi ve ... more Internet kullanimi ve internete erisim olanaklari arttikca, internet kanaatlerin sekillenmesi ve dolasimi acisindan gitgide daha da onemli bir arac haline gelmistir. Kimi arastirmacilar, siber uzamin alternatif bir kamusal alan olarak dusunulebilecegi iddiasini gundeme getirmekte ve internetin demokrasinin derinlestirilmesinde olumlu bir rol oynayacaginin altini cizmektedir. Internet-kamusallik baglantisina daha supheci yaklasan arastirmacilar ise, siber uzamin sinirliliklarini vurgular ve internete erisimdeki esitsizlikler ve siber uzamdaki anti-demokratik iceriklere (nefret soylemi, irkci, cinsiyetci, ayrimci icerikler vb.) isaret etmektedirler. “Internet Mecralari, Kanaat Olusumu ve Dolasimi: Kamusal ve Mahrem Arasinda” baslikli TUBITAK SOBAG projesinin bulgularindan yola cikan bu calismada, siber uzam-kamusallik iliskisi niceliksel ve niteliksel arastirma bulgulari esliginde tartisilmaktadir. Calisma, internet, kamusallik, tartisma etigi ve demokrasi arasindaki iliskinin ve bu i...

European Journal of Communication, May 12, 2023

Communication is among the most used and least theorized concepts across various disciplines, inc... more Communication is among the most used and least theorized concepts across various disciplines, including communication studies. There are many communication theories and models, most of which take communication for granted, only as a name and an unproblematic/self-evident concept. The concept's ambiguity relates to the definition of borders and the discipline's content. In 'Communication theory and the disciplines', Jefferson D. Pooley (2016a) presents an exhaustive list of disciplines that relate or are sensitive to communication theory, including sociology, psychology, political science, geography, economics, philosophy, history, literary studies, and cognate fields such as cultural studies, visual studies, game studies, popular music studies, gender studies, and LGBT studies. Located at the intersection of various disciplines, communication studies host a plethora of analytical frameworks, epistemological paradigms, and research interests. However, 'what it gained in intellectual richness. .. it lacked in disciplinary focus and shared identity' (Waisbord, 2019). Labeling communication studies as a post-discipline, Waisbord points to ontological plurality, theoretical heteroglossia, hyper-specialization of contemporary scholarship, and the overall decline of grand theories as the main reasons for the identity crisis. Communication is defined as connection, dialogue, expression, information, persuasion, and symbolic interaction (Waisbord, 2019). However, the ontological status of communication as such has not been adequately elaborated. What defines communication scholarship? What is the object and subject of communication? Most important of all, what is communication? These questions remain and seem to remain valid in the foreseeable future.

Ankara üniversitesi ilef dergisi, Dec 1, 2014

Akdeniz Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, Sep 1, 2010

Bu makale Kemalizmin en onemli ideologlarindan ve ayni zamanda Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi ve erken c... more Bu makale Kemalizmin en onemli ideologlarindan ve ayni zamanda Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi ve erken cumhuriyet hukumetlerinde onemli makamlar isgal etmis olan Recep Peker’in siyasal goruslerini tartismaktadir. Bircok degerlendirme Recep Peker’i parti icerisinde, otoriter siyaset onerileri mutedil kadrolar tarafindan engellenen asiri bir figur olarak ele alir. Bu makale, aksine, Recep Peker ve onun solidarist-korporatist cercevesinin Kemalist ideolojinin olusmasinda onemli bir rol oynadigini iddia etmektedir. Peker ve Kemalizmin halkcilik anlayisi ve iki rakip ideolojiye – liberalizm ve sosyalizm – yaklasimlari tartismanin merkezinde yer alacaktir

Mülkiye Dergisi, Jun 20, 2015

Gerek Arap Bahari gerekse Gezi Parki protestolari sirasinda futbol taraftar gruplarinin, ozellikl... more Gerek Arap Bahari gerekse Gezi Parki protestolari sirasinda futbol taraftar gruplarinin, ozellikle de Ultralarin sasirtici bir sekilde protestolarin onemli aktorlerden biri olusuna tanik olduk. Misir’da Develer Savasi’nda ve sonrasinda ve Turkiye’de de gostericilerle polis arasindaki catismalarda, taraftar gruplari daginik ve orgutsuz kitleleri bir araya toplayarak direnise onemli bir destek vermistir. Toplumsal hareketlerin bu sira disi aktorlerini sorunsallastiran bu calisma, Misir ve Turkiye orneklerini belirli karsilastirma ogeleri cercevesinde ele almaktadir. Cekismeci siyaset literaturunun sundugu kavramsal cerceveye yaslanan makalede siyasal firsatlar, birikmis bir cekismenin varligi, deneyim ve taraftar gruplarinin mevcut eylem repertuvarlari tartisilmaktadir. Makale siyasete demokratik katilim yollarinin tikandigi, devlet siddetinin yaygin oldugu ve sokagin asli muhalefet ve protesto uzami haline geldigi Misir orneginde taraftar gruplarinin, tecrubeli sokak savascilari olarak toplumsal hareketlerin guclu ve kalici unsurlari haline geldigini vurgulamaktadir.

Folklor/edebiyat, Aug 1, 2015

DergiPark (Istanbul University), Apr 1, 2010

Göreli olarak uzun say›labilecek bir zaman sonra Ulus Baker'in en az kendisi kadar 'efsane' olang... more Göreli olarak uzun say›labilecek bir zaman sonra Ulus Baker'in en az kendisi kadar 'efsane' olangerek içeri¤i, gerek yaz›l›fl süreci, gerek kendisinin bu süreçle ilgili yazd›klar› ve gerekse de "hüzün geriye kaland›r. Biraz blues dinleyin benim için ..." ifadesi ile kendini gösteren-tezi Harun Abuflo¤lu'nun çevirisi ile Türkçe'ye çevirilerek kitap olarak bas›ld›. Kaynakça ile birlikte toplam 357 sayfa olan kitap, Hasan Ünal Nalbanto¤lu'nun tezin nas›l gayr-i resmi dan›flman› olarak çal›flmaya kat›ld›¤›n›, tezin "saçakl›" yap›s›n› (ki sözkonusu olan bir Ulus Baker düflünmesi/metni ise, 'saçaklanma' bir bafl ya da bir son ya da bir bitifl yerine 'rhizomatic' bir yap›ya sahip olmamas› mümkün müdür?), günümüzde görselli¤in artan önemi ile bu önem nedeniyle Fredric Jameson'dan hareketle bir 'görsel ontoloji'ye duyulan ihtiyac› ve Ulus'un tezinin kabulu sonras› hissettiklerini aktard›¤› 'Önsöz' ile bafllamaktad›r. Önsözün ard›ndan kitab›n çevirmeni ve Ulus'un yak›n arkadafl› olan Harun Abuflo¤lu'nun kaleme ald›¤› "Sunufl: Kullan›fll› bir Sosyoloji" bölümü gelmektedir. Tezin/kitab›n özeti say›labilecek bu bölümde Ulus'un düflüncenin üç bilefleni olan kanaat, duygu ve imaj›n Spinozist kavran›fl›n›, nas›l video-imaja ve video-uzama geniflletti¤i yer almaktad›r. Burada karfl›m›za televizyonun kanaat toplumlar›nda sadece kanaatlerin kendini gösterdi¤i bir ortam olmas›n›n ötesinde kanaat üreticisi olarak düflünceyi kuflatan yap›s›na video-imaj ile karfl› konulabilece¤i önermesinin ç›kt›¤›n› görmekteyiz. Daha ilk sayfalarda bu cümleleri okur okumaz televizyonun gündelik yaflant›m›z üzerindeki kuflat›c› etkisini gözümüzde canland›rabiliyor ya da 'hissedebiliyoruz.' Ama video-imaj›n bunu nas›l de¤ifltirebilece¤i sorusunu da kendimize sormadan edemiyoruz (Tam da bu nokta, video, video art, video-imaj, belgesel ve giderek sinema üzerine çal›flan ya da düflünenlerin dikkatini kitaba daha da çok vermeleri gerekti¤inin iflareti olarak görülebilir). As›l soru ise okuru bir sonraki sayfada beklemektedir: Dünya alg›s›n›n yo¤un bir flekilde artarak imaj›n kontrolü alt›na girmesinden dolay› hayat›n kendisini fragmenter tarzda ortaya koydu¤u modern/postmodern kültürde, baflkalar›n›n rüyalar›na kap›lmamak nas›l mümkündür? Abuflo¤lu'na göre, Ulus Baker kap›lmama-n›n da ötesine geçerek öznelerin, çokluklar›n kendi rüyalar›n› kurgulamalar›n›n, yaratmalar›n›n gerekti¤ini düflünmekte ve bunun için de Anti-Ödip'in bilinçd›fl› Spinozac›l›¤›n›, ‹gnoramus (ilerleyen k›s›mlarda daha genifl olarak ele al›nacak olan bu kavram› oldukça kestirmeden 'eylem,' 'üretime geçifl' olarak yazabiliriz) deneyiminde elden geçirmektedir. Bu fragmenter kültür ortam›nda bilim, sanat, felsefe gibi temel insan sanatlar›n› gerçeklefltirmek, öznenin kendi rüyalar›n› üretmesi ancak bu kültürel ortam›n havas›na, medyalar›na ve tasar›mlar›na içkin olmakla mümkün olacakt›r. ‹flte bu noktada "Ben görüyorum" (videoyani, görüyorum ya da Vertov'un Sine-göz'ü) yeni bir öznellik olana¤› sunarak, bahsedilen yeni özneyi olanakl› k›labilecek araç olarak Ulus taraf›ndan ele al›nmaktad›r. Bu aç›klay›c› bölümün ard›ndan Abuflo¤lu, "Çevirmenin Notu" bölümünde ufuk aç›c› bu metnin çeviri sürecini ve çeviride dikkate al›nan önemli noktalar› okuyucu ile paylafl›rken metinle-belki de asl›nda Ulus Baker'le-aras›ndaki ba¤› da hissettirmektedir. Kitab›n birinci bölümü olan "Girifl" k›sm›nda tez çal›flmas›n›n amac›n›n k›saca 'kanaatler sosyolojisi'nin yerine 'duygular sosyolojisi'nin geçirilmesinin olanaklar›n›n araflt›r›lmas› oldu¤u görülmektedir. Gabriel Tarde'›n kullan›fl›ndan daha baflka kullan›mlara kaym›fl olan 'kanaatler sosyolojisi' elefltirisi art›k sosyolojinin duygusal bir varl›k olarak nitelenen-George Simmel'in ortaya koydu¤u 'yoksul,' 'Yahudi,' 'yabanc›,' ya da Marx'›n kulland›¤› 'Lumpenproletariat' gibi-toplumsal tiplerle ilgilenmeyip, 'kanaatperverlik,' kanaatlerin arflivi olman›n ötesine gidemeyiflinin incelenmesi, toplumsal tipler yaratamamada akademik sosyal bilimlerin ve bugünkü 'global' yaflam›n etkileri, toplumsal tip yaratman›n sosyolojiyi ye-K‹TAP VE F‹LM ELEfiT‹R‹LER‹ / BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS

European Journal of Cultural Studies, Mar 11, 2019

This article explores the relationship between populism, media and popular culture in Turkey by f... more This article explores the relationship between populism, media and popular culture in Turkey by focusing on a phenomenal historical television series, Diriliş: Ertuğrul, and the discursive spaces opened by the show. The author relies on a symptomatic analysis of populism which conceptualizes the term as an anti-status quo discourse that simplifies the political space by symbolically dividing the society between 'the people' and its other, more specifically 'the elites'. Diriliş is promoted by the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi) elite and pro-government media as 'the show of the people', and as a cultural artifact belonging to the people. The show has been embraced as an alternative to morally degenerate cultural products of alienated Westernist/Kemalist cultural elites. The Justice and Development Party elites used every opportunity to incorporate the series into its populist political program. The article focuses on a specific crisis moment, 'The Golden Butterfly Awards 2016', and the ensuing debates to show how media discourse can resonate with the populist political discourse of a political party.

European Journal of Communication, Jan 2, 2023

DergiPark (Istanbul University), Jun 1, 2010

Bu çalışmanın amacı Stuart Hall'un ideoloji, iletişim ve kültür çalışmalarına katkılarının genel ... more Bu çalışmanın amacı Stuart Hall'un ideoloji, iletişim ve kültür çalışmalarına katkılarının genel bir değerlendirmesini sunmaktır. Özellikle Stuart Hall'un Marksist ideoloji ve kültür kuramına katkıları üzerinde yoğunlaşan makale Hall'un formülasyonlarının araştırmacılara 'toplumsal'ın karmaşıklığını kavramak açısından son derece değerli ipuçları sunduğunu vurgulamaktadır. Onun "nihai garantilerden yoksun Marksizm"i bize ideolojik düzeyin özgüllüğünü hatırlatmakta ve "açıklamaya çalıştığımız şeyin karmaşıklığı ile başa çıkabilecek" yeterlikte bir ideoloji kuramı geliştirmemiz gerektiğinin altını çizmektedir. Hall, iktidarın, kültürün merkezi bir öğesi olduğunu ve kültürün iktidar ilişkilerinin kuruluşunda hayati önemde rol oynadığını ısrarla vurgular. Onun kültüre dinamik yaklaşımı kültürel alan hakkında özcü genellemelerden kaçınmamıza yardımcı olur.

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Apr 6, 2017

This article problematizes the role played by a football fan club-Çarşı-in one of the largest soc... more This article problematizes the role played by a football fan club-Çarşı-in one of the largest social movements in Turkish political history, the Gezi Park protests of June 2013. The authors suggest that as "unusual suspects" in social movements, Çarşı's role in the Gezi Park protests can be understood with the conceptual toolbox provided by theories of contentious politics. Since action repertoires, or "known sequences for acting together," are key to contentious politics and social movements, Çarşı's organized and effective performance during the Gezi Park protests shows how previous encounters with the police can be decisive in terms of social upheavals. This study suggests that Çarşı members, who were already accustomed to making ethical judgments on a variety of issues both political and non-political, should be taken as a prominent example of how supporters on terraces and fan clubs facilitate the framing processes described by the social movement literature.

Ankara Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi iletişim araştırmaları dergisi, 2010

Ankara Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık eBooks, 2017

Political Studies Review, Jul 9, 2016

Just talk to people! This phrase refers to the test of learning-by-doing with which graduate stud... more Just talk to people! This phrase refers to the test of learning-by-doing with which graduate students – and even more experienced researchers – are often confronted when carrying out fieldwork. The reason? Most graduate programmes in political science neglect to provide formal training in interview-based research. The starting point of this book is precisely the paradox that in spite of the fact that there is a long tradition in some subfields of political science of relying on field-intensive research, a considerable gap exists in the literature related to the use of interviews as a methodological tool. This book aims to fill this gap by addressing different elements of interview-based research. With that purpose in mind, this volume brings together 12 contributions from across different subfields of political science, but where they all share the goal of giving ‘advice, both practical and theoretical, about how to effectively use interviews as part of the research process’ (p. 26). The book is comprised of three main parts, preceded by an introduction in which the editor broadly outlines the main discussions associated with the use of interviews within political science. The first part touches upon general considerations such as aligning sampling strategies with analytical goals, the ethical treatment of human subjects, the power of the interviewer and the best ways to report interview data. These are valuable contributions for any researcher employing interviews as a methodological tool. The second part addresses the particular challenges of interview research like, for example, working with interpreters or facing the problem of extraterritorial legality. Readers might find particular aspects from here relevant for their own research, although other aspects might not be. The last part of the volume illustrates specific uses of interview data. Examples include, among others, elite interviewing in Washington and interviews to understand racial group identity and political behaviour. Apart from its value for filling a gap in the literature, this book has one additional merit: it reflects the epistemological diversity within the discipline, facilitating a dialogue between positivist and interpretivist scholars. Overall, the book is a valuable source for understanding the key challenges behind interview-based research – such as ethics, sampling, validity and reliability – and also contains practical advice for coping with interviews in the different stages of research. However, it should be clarified that, more than a handbook for interview-based research, it is a collection of texts interested in appraising interviews as a methodological tool.

Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Sep 13, 2019

In this article, I discuss the emergence and transformation of Islamic television broadcasting in... more In this article, I discuss the emergence and transformation of Islamic television broadcasting in Turkey. In the 1990s, Islamic channels were launched as a challenge to the so-called moral degeneracy of infotainment channels and claimed to represent an alternative form and content. However, far from presenting an alternative broadcasting style, Islamic channels rapidly succumbed to the logic of capital and the imperatives of commercial broadcasting. I argue that the transformation of Islamic broadcasting is related to the overall transformation of Islamism in Turkey.

Turkish Historical Review, Dec 27, 2021

Momentdergi, Jun 15, 2016