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=p087998New 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

Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust: Globality, Culture, Affect
This collection reaches beyond fake news and propaganda, misinformation, and charismatic liars, to explore the lesser-publicized cultural forms and practices that serve as a cultural infrastructure for post-truth society and politics.
Situating post-truth in specific contexts as a site of contestation or crisis, the book critically explores it as a dynamic and shifting site around which political and cultural practices in specific contexts revolve and overlap. Through a breadth of perspectives,
Routledge & CRC PressThis from a journalist in Gaza
You know, this is not just for POC or Global south scholars: “Speakers address the maelstrom of conflicting messages, misinformation, disinformation, doublespeak, gate-keeping, silencing, intimidation, fabrication, and most shockingly the targeted killing of journalists.” Dec 8, Friday 3pm EST
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