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Alternative Media in Contemporary Turkey Alternative Media in Contemporary Turkey Sustainability, Activism, and Resistance Edited by Murat Akser and Victoria McCollum London•NewYork PublishedbyRowman&LittlefieldInternational,Ltd. 6TinworthStreet,LondonSE115AL,UnitedKingdom www.rowmaninternational.com Rowman&LittlefieldInternational,Ltd.isanaffiliateof Rowman&Littlefield 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706,USA WithadditionalofficesinBoulder,NewYork,Toronto(Canada),andLondon(UK) www.rowman.com Selectionandeditorialmatter©2019byMuratAkserandVictoriaMcCollum Copyrightinindividualchaptersisheldbytherespectivechapterauthors. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformation AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:HB978-1-78661-063-8 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Akser,Murat,editor.|McCollum,Victoria,editor. Title:AlternativemediaincontemporaryTurkey:sustainability,activism,andresistance/editedby MuratAkserandVictoriaMcCollum. Description:London;NewYork:Rowman&LittlefieldInternationalLtd,[2019]|Includesbiblio- graphicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2018034138(print)|LCCN2018048444(ebook)|ISBN9781786610645(elec- tronic)|ISBN9781786610638(cloth:alk.paper) Subjects:LCSH:Alternativemassmedia—Politicalaspects—Turkey.|Socialmedia—Politicalas- pects—Turkey.|Communicationinsocialaction—Turkey.|Communicationinpolitics—Tur- key. 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PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction:AlternativeMediainContemporaryTurkey: Sustainability,Activism,andResistance 1 MuratAkserandVictoriaMcCollum PartI:Sustainability 13 1 TheDivergingTrajectoriesofAlternative/CitizenMediain Turkey:AComparativeAnalysisofÇapulTVand140journos 15 HalukMertBal,ErginBulut,andLemiBaruh 2 TheActivistDimensionoftheAlternativeMediaand Sustainability:TheCaseofMedyascope.tv 39 LauraAvadar 3 PoliticsofNewsReceptionandCirculationinTurkishNews Culture 61 SuncemKoçer PartII:Activism 75 4 CitizenJournalismbeforeandaftertheGeziParkProtest:Power andAgencyintheMediaSphere 77 DésiréeHostettler 5 CitizenJournalismthroughAffectiveStatementsonTwitter 101 BurcumKesen 6 PrecarizationandInsecurityinTurkeyaftertheCoupAttempt: EraofDenizensinTurkey’sNewMediaOrder 113 SarphanUzunoğlu v vi Contents PartIII:Resistance 121 7 SocialMovementMediaandAffectiveField:Constructionof ActivistSubjectivityasa“Spirit”ofAction 123 AlptugÖkten 8 CommunicationasPoliticalAction:GeziParkandOnline ContentProducers 137 EylemYanardağoğlu 9 ResistingthroughImages:VideoActivismintheGeziPark Movement 155 GülümŞenerandPerrinÖğünEmre 10 ContemporaryFeministMediainTurkey:AStudyofOnline FeministPlatformÇatlakZemin(CrackedGround) 177 HanifeAliefendioğlu Index 197 AbouttheContributors 199 Acknowledgments The genesisof thisbookowes alot to aJune 2016socialmediaandpolitics symposium presented by Ulster University’s Arts and Humanities Research cluster. The successive research directors Frank Lyons, Thomas Maguire, and Brian Bridges at Ulster University supported this symposium. Professor Jan Jedrzejewski, our dean at Faculty of Arts then, and Professor Paul Moore, head of the School of Creative Arts and Technologies, were great sourcesofsupportandinspiration.Throughthissymposium,wewereableto address some of the key issues related to the uses of social media during social protest movements, such as Occupy, Tahrir, Euromaidan, and Gezi Park.During thesymposium, theparticipants sharedtheirperspectives from countries as diverse as Russia, China, Ireland, and Morocco. We have learnedagreatdealofcomparativemethodologyfromdistinguishedscholars like Fatima El-Issawi, Anastasia Denisova, Sally Chen, Lina Dencik, Joss Hands,DanielTrottier,PaulReilly,andJakobSvensson.Unfortunately,time constraints and participants’ commitments to other journal publications pre- vented a timely publication of a collected volume back then. Hence the offshoot of such an idea—a book on Turkish alternative media—was born out of the ashes of the former project. I would like to thank the invited participants in this volume for their speediness in addressing editing and proofreading needs. Some articles that address other areas of social media activism had to be excluded from the present volume. These are also giving waytoanewproject:VideoActivisminTurkey(thetitleofournewbook). In this journey, I thank my editing partner Victoria McCollum from Ul- sterUniversity.Shewasabletoreadthewholetextandcorrecteverylineof it to make it more reader friendly as a final book. I am looking forward to future collaborations with her. I would also like to thank our two blind referees and our reviewers Isabel David, Robert Porter, Ayca Alemdaroglu, vii viii Acknowledgments andBanuAkdenizli.TheeditorsatRowman&Littlefield—DharaSnowden, RebeccaAnastasi,andPatriciaStevenson—whomadeourliveseasydeserve ahugecreditforraisingthisbookofhighestacademiccaliber.
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