Alternative Media in Contemporary Turkey: Sustainability, Activism, and Resistance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781538158715)

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Alternative Media in Contemporary Turkey: Sustainability, Activism, and Resistance

$46.95

Alternative Media in Contemporary Turkey: Sustainability, Activism, and Resistance

$46.95
Format: Paperback
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The transformations in alternative media, journalism and social protest in contemporary Turkey have largely occurred due to the upsurge in use of social media. Some of the most fervent users of social media in the world come from Turkey where forms of social media are frequently banned by the Turkish government.

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. The book outlines the history of alternative media use and the ways in which it has become a tool for the critics of the neoliberal economic system in Turkey. The collection concentrates on social media use within social movements and applies interdisciplinary approaches and research methods, ranging from cinema and visual arts to sociology, political science, content analysis and ethnographic study.

Author: Murat Akser
ISBN-10: 153815871X
ISBN-13: 9781538158715
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/06/2021
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d
By Murat Akser
By Murat Akser
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Murat Akser is a Lecturer in Cinematic Arts, in the School of Arts and Humanities, at Ulster University. Between 2006-2013 he was an Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Chair of New Media Department and the Founding Director of the New Media MA program at Kadir Has University, Turkey.

Victoria McCollum is a Lecturer in Cinematic Arts, in the School of Arts and Humanities, at Ulster University. Her most recent research examines how horror films, including some of its most transgressive subgenres, deal with memory, ideology, and the often-competing claims of nationalism, American exceptionalism and cultural sorrow. She is the author of Post-9/11 Heartland Horror: Rural Horror Films in an Era of Urban Terrorism (2017) and the co-editor of HBO's Original Voices: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality and Power (2018) and Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear (2019). Victoria is currently working on a long-term research project concerning Halloween in Northern Ireland.

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