Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem

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Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem
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S. Koçer Çamurdan
Suncem, Koçer Çamurdan
Kocer Camurdan, Suncem
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Suncem, Kocer Camurdan
Kocer, Suncem
Çamurdan, Suncem Koçer
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Kocer, Suncem
Çamurda, Suncem Koçer
Koçer, Suncem
Koçer, S.
Çamurdan, Suncem Koçer
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Alternative Media in Contemporary Turkey: Sustainability, Activism, and Resistance1
American Ethnologist1
International Journal of Middle East Studies1
Kültür ve İletişim1
Media and Communication1
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    Citation - WoS: 15
    Citation - Scopus: 17
    Skeptical Inertia in the Face of Polarization: News Consumption and Misinformation in Turkey
    (Cogitatio Press, 2022) Bozdag, Cigdem; Kocer, Suncem
    Focusing on Turkey, this article analyzes the role of polarization on news users' perception of misinformation and mistrust in the news on social media. Turkey is one of the countries where citizens complain most about misinformation on the internet. The citizens' trust in news institutions is also in continuous decline. Furthermore, both Turkish society and its media landscape are politically highly polarized. Focusing on Turkey's highly polarized environment, the article aims to analyze how political polarization influences the users' trust in the news and their perceptions about misinformation on social media. The study is based on multi-method research, including focus groups, media diaries, and interviews with people of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. The article firstly demonstrates different strategies that the users develop to validate information, including searching for any suspicious information on search engines, looking at the comments below the post, and looking at other news media, especially television. Secondly, we will discuss how more affective mechanisms of news assessment come into prominence while evaluating political news. Although our participants are self-aware and critical about their partisan attitudes in news consumption and evaluation, they also reveal media sources to which they feel politically closer. We propose the concept of skeptical inertia to refer to this self-critical yet passive position of the users in the face of the polarized news environment in Turkey.
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    Master Thesis
    The Intertopian Elements in Terry Gilliam's Brazil
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2014) Akser, Didem Durak; Koçer, Suncem
    This thesis does a multi-layered reading of the film Brazil in terms of form and style. The analysis sees the utilization of dystopia and utopia in Brazil as notions and modes and not as genres. Terry Gilliam’s Brazil is often commonly treated as a dystopia. A new concept intertopia is used for describing Brazil to indicate its in-between position. The defining elements of intertopia are examined through the dystopian elements in the film as well as the utopian elements for such as the humorous tone the dream and daydreaming sequences the notion of hope in the film and the ending. -- Absract'tan.
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    Citation - WoS: 18
    Citation - Scopus: 24
    News-Sharing Repertoires on Social Media in the Context of Networked Authoritarianism: the Case of Turkey
    (USC ANNENBERG PRESS, 2020) Koçer, Süncem; Bozdağ, Çiğdem
    Social media has become a primary gateway for users to access news, especially in authoritarian states with strictly controlled media environments. In such contexts, it is crucial to understand the motivations that prompt users to share news on social media. Our qualitative multimethod study presents three patterns of news-sharing repertoires on social media: (1) refraining from sharing and/or self-censorship, (2) sharing overtly political news, and (3) sharing news with political implications in carefully crafted safe zones. In Turkey, these patterns are strongly influenced by the polarized and increasingly authoritarian setting. Our findings first contribute to the literature on news sharing and news repertoires through an in-depth study of news-sharing repertories that emphasize the role of social and political contexts. Second, we contribute to the literature on social media and authoritarianism by shedding light on a rather understudied group of users who do not completely self-censor and are not political activists but still share news with political implications online in a cautious and strategic way.
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    Citation - WoS: 10
    Citation - Scopus: 16
    Making Transnational Publics: Circuits of Censorship and Technologies of Publicity in Kurdish Media Circulation
    (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem
    Kurdish media producers who interweave social and political agendas with their filmmaking are often marginalized within Turkish media worlds. Impeded by national censorship these filmmakers move between national and transnational media worlds to advance their cinematic work. Such movement helps them create and maintain transnational publics that reinforce circulation of their media texts. Here I analyze how a documentary film about a seminomadic Kurdish community moves through international screening venues. As it journeys through film festivals in Europe its director Kazim oz accompanies it and through deliberate discourse attempts to increase and accelerate the film's transnational circulation. I explore the ways that oz discursively globalizes his film relates it to festival audiences flags the politics of Kurdish media production and seeks to construct a European public sensitive to the plight of Turkey's Kurds.
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    Citation - WoS: 4
    Citation - Scopus: 4
    Folk Theories of False Information: a Mixed-Methods Study in the Context of Covid-19 in Turkey
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2022) Kocer, Suncem; Oz, Bahadir; Okcuoglu, Gulten; Tapramaz, Fezal
    This study explores how media users define false information in the daily flow of their lives against a backdrop of sociopolitical contexts. We focus on the vernacular definitions of false information through the concept of folk theories, which are the intuitive explanatory tools users develop to make sense of and act in the world around them. Based on mixed-method research conducted in Turkey during the Covid-19 pandemic, we identify three prevailing folk theories of false information. First, users consider text-based characteristics, such as the presence of evidence as a flag of accuracy/inaccuracy. Second, users assume that people in their social networks distinguish between the accurate and the inaccurate, and thus the information coming from these circles is accurate. Finally, users imagine that people whose worldviews conflict with theirs spread inaccurate information. Despite users' overarching references to textual traits of news, it appears that the latter two folk theories drive users' information processing practices in daily life.
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    Book Part
    Citation - Scopus: 3
    Politics of News Reception and Circulation in Turkish News Culture
    (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2021) Koçer, S.
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    Domestik Etnografi Örneği Olarak Ben Uçtum Sen Kaldın
    (Hacettepe Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi, 2015) Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem; Çamurdan, Suncem Koçer
    In what ways does documentary camera with its unique capacity to disentangle reality penetrate and reconstruct history? At the intersections of history and memory and of family and self, how do documentary narratives crafted through the pursuit of personal life stories, longed family members, and childhood recollections contest hegemonic ideologies about identity? This article focuses on I Flew You Stayed (2012) by Mizgin Müjde Arslan as a reflexive narrative of tracing longed family members and occult life stories. As Arslan searches for her family history to fill out painful gaps in her life journey through documentary practice, she ends up uncovering a restless history construed by ideologies that silence counter-hegemonic voices in unique ways.
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    Master Thesis
    Türkiye'de Tıbbi Kitle Fonlaması: Sosyal Medya ve Bireylerin Bağış Katılımları Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2022) YEDİKARDEŞLER, BETÜL; Kocer, Suncem
    Günümüzde bağışta bulunma eylemlerinin çevrimiçi mecralara dâhil olması ile kitlesel fonlama ve sosyal medya platformları, ihtiyaç sahibi bireyler ile destekçilerini bir araya getirmektedir. Kitlesel fonlama yönteminin tıbbi alan çerçevesinde kullanılmasını kapsayan tıbbi kitle fonlaması kavramı, ihtiyaç sahiplerinin ödeneklerini tamamlayamadıkları tıbbi ihtiyaçları doğrultusundaki taleplerini kitlesel fonlama kampanyaları ile finanse etmeleri olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Keşif amaçlı bu çalışmada; son yıllarda sosyal medya platformlarında sıkça yer almaya başlayan Spinal Musküler Atrofi (SMA) hastalığının tedavisine yönelik bağış kampanyaları ele alınmıştır. Bu örnek çerçevesinde, Türkiye’de tıbbi kitle fonlaması kampanyalarına yönelik olarak bireylerin bağış katılımlarını etkileyen faktörler üzerine bir değerlendirme yapılmıştır. Çalışma kapsamında niteliksel bir yaklaşımla anket ve yarı yapılandırılmış derinlemesine görüşmeler katılımcılara uygulanmış, veriler analiz edilmiş ve yorumlanmıştır. Çalışmanın sonucunda, bireylerin sosyal medya platformlarında yer alan Spinal Musküler Atrofi (SMA) hastalığının tedavisine yönelik başlatılan bağış kampanyalarına katılmayı düşündükleri ancak ilk etapta kampanyaları güvenilir bulmadıkları belirlenmiştir. Bireyler, bu kampanyalara bağışta bulunmalarının önündeki engeli sosyal medya platformlarının güvenilirliğini zedeleyen kötü niyet, suistimal ve dolandırıcılık konularıyla ilişkilendirmiştir. Bireylerin bu kampanyaların doğruluklarını çeşitli şekilde teyit etme ihtiyacı hissettikleri belirlenmiştir. Sosyal medya platformlarındaki iletişim materyalleri arasında yer alan fotoğraf, video ve metinlerin de bireylerin bağış katılımlarını etkilediği görülmüştür. Alternatif bağış katılımı olarak ise bireylerin sosyal medya platformlarında yer alan bu kampanyaların daha çok yayılması için beğeni ve paylaşım araçlarını kullanmayı tercih ettikleri, yorum yapmayı ise daha az tercih ettikleri belirlenmiştir.
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    Citation - WoS: 1
    Citation - Scopus: 1
    Invented Myths in Contemporary Turkish Political Advertising
    (Springer, 2016) Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem; Yalkın, Çağrı
    This article focuses on the November 2015 elections in Turkey and analyzes the discourses embedded in the political campaign videos produced and circulated by the Justice and Development Party (ruling party since 2002) Republican People's Party (first political party of the republic) People's Democratic Party (main vehicle of the Kurdish politics) and Nationalist Movement Party (ethno-nationalist party). Republic of Turkey's construction in the national imagination over the past 90 years have both rested on and reproduced a range of themes which are themselves based on recently invented nationalist myths such as the common enemy the multicultural mosaic order and progress fight against imperialism the break from the Ottoman empire and Turkey as bridge between east-and-west. Hence we argue that regardless of their severely diverse stance on key issues in the political realm all the political parties use the hegemony's myths as tools in their advertisements therefore reifying these themes in the public imagination.