This panel explores the use of new media and the proliferation of communication networks in Turkey. It surveys a wide variety of new media experiences in Turkey and their social implications, such as the economic and cultural consequences of file sharing of films on the internet, alternative journalism methods and practices by ideological groups, political and social significance of a new Armenian video game, women’s movement and communication networks etc. The panel seeks to understand the impact of globalization, the role of new media in social change, the experience of modernity and the negotiation of cultural identities in Turkey.
Chair: Nurcay Turkoglu (Marmara University)
Discussant: Ece Algan (California State University, San Bernardino)
Panelists: Yavuz Kerem Demirbas, Esengul Ayyildiz, Bora Altun, Sevilen Toprak Alayoglu (Marmara University)
Kafa Ayarı 