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Alternative media in contemporary Turkey : sustainability, activism and resistance

Title
Alternative media in contemporary Turkey : sustainability, activism and resistance / edited by Murat Akser and Victoria McCollum.
Publication
London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd, [2019]

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Additional Authors
  • Akser, Murat
  • McCollum, Victoria
Description
viii, 202 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"This book looks at the structural, economic and political reasons why the current media system fails urban educated young professionals in Turkey and led them to a month-long resistance and protest through the use of social media during OccupyGezi movement"--
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: alternative media in contemporary Turkey: sustainability, activism and resistance / Murat Akser -- The diverging trajectories of alternative/citizen media in Turkey: a comparative analysis of C̦apul TV and 140journos / Haluk Mert Bal, Ergin Bulut and Lemi Baruh -- The activist dimension of the alternative media and sustainability / Laura Avadar -- Politics of news reception and circulation in Turkish news culture / Suncem Kocer -- Journalism in Turkey and the Gezi Park protest: power and agency in the media sphere / Désirée Hostettler -- Citizen journalism through affective statements on Twitter / Burcum Kesen -- Precarization and insecurity in Turkey after the coup attempt: era of denizens in Turkey's new media order / Sarphan Uzunoğlu -- Social movement media and affective field: construction of activist subjectivity as a "spirit" of action / Alptug Okten -- Communication as political action: Gezi Park and online content producers / Eylem Yanardagoglu -- Resisting through images: video activism in the Gezi Park movement / Gülüm Eener and Perrin Öğün Emre -- Contemporary feminist media in Turkey: a study of online feminist platform, C̦atlak Zemin / Hanife Aliefendioglu.
ISBN
  • 9781786610638
  • 1786610639
LCCN
  • 2018034138
  • 99979364131
OCLC
  • on1057237929
  • 1057237929
  • SCSB-9253975
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries