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You can use code SP24UIP on University of Illinois Press website and receive a 30% discount. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087998

I ask what happens when a personalistic and power-driven regime wields this rhetoric to further its geopolitical and economic goals and obfuscates facts with identity politics, demonizes the West to aggrandize the East and rallies Muslims under Turkey’s purportedly benevolent leadership. +

Moving beyond the typical public diplomacy and soft power frameworks, I use a cultural framework and direct attention to the decolonial and pan-Islamist messages AKP-sponsored outlets deploy to position Turkey as a rising power opposed to Western imperialism and claiming to be the voice of oppressed Muslims around the world. +

My new book is out: Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order. I examine the Erdogan regime's English-language communication apparatus (news channel, news agency, newspaper, social media activity, tv series, journalism training, media conferences...) focusing on its objectives and outcomes, the idea-generating framework that undergirds it, and the implications of its activities. +

Do we need to remind Turkish pundits having a field day with the police crackdown on US campuses how 1) they label every anti-gov protest in Turkey as terrorism 2) Armenian genocide commemoration in Istanbul has been banned 3) and so will May Day celebrations, and Pride March (for several years now). Anyway, it's a long list and I'm angry.

I'll be giving a research seminar at HKBU on March 1 at 9 pm EST/ March 2, 10 am HKT. You can register here
https://www.hkbu.online/commfilm/when-authoritarian-regimes-talk-back-to-the-west-the-case-of-turkey/

I'll be giving a research seminar at HKBU on March 1 at 9 pm EST/ March 2, 10 am HKT. You can register here
https://www.hkbu.online/commfilm/when-authoritarian-regimes-talk-back-to-the-west-the-case-of-turkey/

The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) is seeking to appoint an Associate Professor of Digital Culture

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/vacancies/

I can't stand hearing my own voice but here's a book talk I gave at George Washington U. https://ipdgc.gwu.edu/2024/02/20/5658/

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@ahmetasabanci thank you!

My new book is out in June 🥰 I examine Turkey's English-language communication apparatus, its expansion, strategies and implications. I ask how/why the Erdogan govt rallies Muslims under Turkey’s purportedly benevolent leadership, and what happens when state-run and pro-gov outlets obfuscate facts with identity politics, discredit the West, and aggrandize the East. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087998

Tomorrow at George Mason

"The details coming out of #Gaza are so graphic, so relentless, that now may be the time to think about what progressive values, feminist or otherwise, really mean if they stop at the threshold of what is familiar," argues Nesrine Malik. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/05/gaza-war-women-west-mothers-babies-medical

@ahmetasabanci pardon ama oha diyorum

Book launch tomorrow Feb 1 : Rethinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust: Globality, Culture, Affect https://www.aup.edu/news-events/event/2024-02-01/book-launch-re-thinking-mediations-post-truth-politics-and-trust

New pub in this great collection ed by Jayson Harsin

https://www.routledge.com/Re-thinking-Mediations-of-Post-truth-Politics-and-Trust-Globality-Culture/Harsin/p/book/9781032484198

Ergin Bulut and I wrote about post-truth politics in Turkey in light of pol eco of media and the lies spread by the govt

This from a journalist in Gaza