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📚Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order
📚Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East
📚Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State
📚Video Surveillance: Power and Privacy in Everyday Life

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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

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

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 Press
This from a journalist in Gaza
In the Shadow of War and Empire

"In the Shadow of War and Empire" published on 14 Dec 2023 by Brill.

Brill
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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