{"product_id":"social-media-and-politics-in-turkey-9781498591379","title":"Social Media and Politics in Turkey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book focuses on media and zeroes in some critical and oppositional aspects of internet usage within Turkey. It does not radically challenge some works on Turkey's recent grand narrative but presents empirical and minor accounts to this. However, in elaborating the long history of relatively resilient and multilayered oppositional digital media networks in Turkey, this book insists that an idea of authoritarian turn may be misleading as the internet communications are exposed to repressive measures and surveillance tactics from the very beginning of the country's recent past. While discussing from citizen journalism practices to political trolls and from Gezi Park protests to disinformation campaigns, this book pays tribute to digital activists and points out that mobilizing through digital networks can present glimmers of hope in challenging authoritarian regimes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA great study of Turkish media cutting across political science, media studies and journalism. Saka's analysis is revolutionary it its inclusion of all aspects relating to social media use politically in Turkey. It is fresh, insightful, well-research and surprisingly up-to-date in an area that keeps changing by the minute. The research is careful, sound, informed, concise and very much relevant to both the scholar and the everyday reader. A fresh look at Turkish media and politics that is on a solid path to be an instant classic. -- Murat Akser, Lecturer, University of Ulster\u003cbr\u003eOrganized  around the  seminal 'Occupy Gezi Park' events   of  2013 and their  aftermath,  this meticulous  account of   the  emergence of  internet citizen journalism  in Turkey by one of its pioneering figures  ends with  chapters on  his courageous, remarkable  ethnographic research on the emergence of  pro-government trolls.   The resulting mischief of 'fake news' appears depressingly in Turkey as elsewhere as the  state  has  developed  its  own internet  strategy.  As an anitdote,  Saka  returns  in his  conclusion to the deeper tradition of  online journalism that  he chronicles to find  not only hope, but inventive  ideas and practices to counter the infestation of trolls.  This  is a meticulous, brilliantly explored work of committed ethnographic scholarship. -- George E. Marcus, University of California, Irvine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: A History of Turkey’s Internet Chapter 2: A Turning Point: “İnternetime Dokunma” March Chapter 3: The emergence of Citizen Journalism Chapter 4: A Major Turning Point: Occupy Gezi Chapter 5: Civic Emergences in the post-Gezi Period Chapter 6: Early Models for Political Trolls Chapter 7: The State of Fake News in Turkey","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040860078423,"sku":"9781498591379","price":72.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498591379.jpg?v=1750948089","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/social-media-and-politics-in-turkey-9781498591379","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}