media studies

Our new book project! Call for Chapters: Turkish Television Series in Transformation

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My TV Turkish Serials Subreddit receives more than 95 thousand visits weekly, and my colleague Alper Kırklar and I decided to curate an edited volume on Turkish Television Series. The series’ global attraction is definitely unintended, but all over the world, I come across people asking me about a particular Turkish series. So here we … Read more

My Cyber-Anthropology Course readings for 2014 Fall Semester

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Just revised my stuff and decided to assign readings below. I hope we will have a productive semester.  I will need to polish it up a bit but this will give you a sense of what we are up to this semester;)  MED 521 Cyber Anthropology for Media Studies is a course designed for Media … Read more

John Postill on MEDIA AND SOCIAL CHANGING SINCE 1979

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Media and social changing since 1979: a diachronic ethnography of media and actual social changes