Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem

Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem

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Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
Ç.,Bozdağ Bucak
Ç. Bozdağ Bucak
Çiğdem, Bozdağ Bucak
Bozdag Bucak, Cigdem
C.,Bozdag Bucak
C. Bozdag Bucak
Cigdem, Bozdag Bucak
Bozdağ, Çiğdem
Bozdağ, Ç.

Job Title

Doç. Dr.

Email Address

Cıgdem.bozdag@khas.edu.tr

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19

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6

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0

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Citation Count: 22
Bottom-Up Nationalism and Discrimination on Social Media: an Analysis of the Citizenship Debate About Refugees in Turkey
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2020) Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
This study analyzes social media representations of refugees in Turkey and discusses their role in shaping public opinion. The influx of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey has created heated debates about their presence and future in the country. One of these debates was triggered by President Erdogan's statement that Turkey would issue citizenship rights to Syrians in July 2016. Due to a lack of critical voices about refugee issues in Turkey's mass media sphere, social media has become a key platform for citizens to voice their opinions. Through a discourse analysis of tweets about the issue of refugees' citizenship, I will map different perceptions of refugees in Turkey. I argue that despite contesting discourses about Syrians, the debate on social media reinforces nationalism and an ethnocentric understanding of citizenship in Turkey. As the number of refugees and migrants increases rapidly worldwide, they become the new 'others' of national imagined communities. Social media becomes a key communication space where the nation is discursively constructed in a bottom-up manner through manifestations of 'us' and 'them'. The analysis shows that social media contributes to trivialization and normalization of discrimination and hatred against Syrian refugees through disseminating overt discourses of 'Othering'. Social media also enables more covert forms of discrimination through 'rationalized' arguments that are used to justify discrimination through the basis of false/non-verified information. Thus, Twitter becomes a space for critical, bottom-up, yet nationalistic and discriminatory statements about refugees.
The Impact of Audience Feedback on Sns User's Self - Representation in the New Media Age
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2016) Ali, Yasmin Essam Said; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
This thesis examines the relationship between audience feedback and selfrepresentation on Facebook using Erving Goffman's dramaturgical model, focusing on the conceptions of audience and context on Facebook of Facebook-using students at Kadir Has University. I am exploring participants' perspectives in four main areas: Audience Feedback on Facebook user's posts and photos; examining user's response to audience feedback; investigating user's self-representation on Facebook; and finally examining if people's online and offline personalities are different and if they are presenting themselves differently in different situations and with different people. I examine the impact of audience feedback on Facebook users' behavior, and understand how Facebook users is re-presenting themselves online. Theoretically, I consider Goffman's model, by applying it to the findings and results of this study.
New Media as a Space for Memory-Making in the Context of Visual Representations of Socio-Political Events
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Cebeci, Gamze; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
This thesis aims to discuss how narratives of socio-political events are represented through new media and attempts to reveal the effects of this usage in construction of memory. Three cases, namely "Map of Women Patrons' Structures in Ottoman Istanbul", Networks of Dispossession and projects of Hafıza Merkezi, were analyzed and expert interviews were made with the project coordinators. As a result of the analysis and after theoretical explanations that were applied to account for it, the role of new media in memory-making was underlined for its capacity to preserve and represent information as well as generate knowledge and provide access to it. It can be concluded that this study is a particular case of a broader phenomenon; it is only limited to the cases, however, by revealing the research processes and evaluation of finished products of the cases, it is believed that the inferences may lead to further studies that could deepen the analysis.
A Qualitative Analysis of Data Journalism Practice in Turkey
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2017) Oran, İrem; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
The importance of data in the field of communication is increasing day by day; the usage of data in the media/news called as data journalism which produces news with data. There are many theses and academic articles on journalism and media studies, but the studies conducted in the sense of data journalism are limited. Despite resource constraints, it is important to work in the field of data journalism and provide resources for literature which has limited resource. The aim of this study is to examine the data and use of data at media which has a large role in communication studies. In research, the share of data journalism in terms of changing journalistic practices has been investigated. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed with editors, freelancers, academicians, and managers at news organizations who had data journalism trainings or have experience on the field to determine common and important points on the subject. Results were obtained by comparing the given answers and literature review. The findings provide information about the current state of data journalism in Turkey, the effects of media economy on the field and the diffuculties of reaching the open data and it gives idea of the future status of data journalism.
The Role of Social Media on Cultural Heritage Consciousness :a Case Study of Hagia Sophia and Foursquare
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Çetinkaya, Mustafa; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
The widespread cultural heritage consciousness is important for the protection and promotion of cultural assets. This study aims to examine the influence of social media tools on the widespread awareness of cultural heritage. The Hagia Sophia Museum was chosen as the sample place and Foursquare was selected as the sample social media tool. After examining the technical and theoretical background a triple research was designed. Foursquare interpretations of 2016 were transformed into a data set a survey was conducted for visitors at the Hagia Sophia Museum and expert opinions were sought. The results of the research have been analyzed within the framework of the knowledge and views gained in the technical and theoretical background. it has been seen that the development of social media technologies and tools has positive effects on the widespread of cultural heritage consciousness.
The Factors That Influence the Transformation of a Regular User To a Youtube Celebrity
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2016) Kahraman, Ninsu; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
The purpose of this research is to explain the factors that are efficient for being a YouTube celebrity rather than a regular user of YouTube. The goal is to show that YouTube users have something in common while creating their content. Since YouTube recently became a business opportunity in Turkey it has users attention. To identify patterns among YouTube content creators i made interviews with them. Then analyze the findings and created the path of being YouTube celebrity.
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Integration Diversity and the Making of a European Public Sphere
(USC ANNENBERG PRESS, 2018) Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
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Popular Culture Representation on Youtube: an Analysis on Youtube Rewinds
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2017) Denci, Sida Dilara; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
My thesis specifically focuses on "Popular Culture Representation on YouTube and the Evolution of the Representation" and to point out Youtube's position when it comes to popular culture, my methodology includes applying a content analysis on all 7 YouTube Rewind videos which are 2010 YouTube Rewind: Year in review", YouTube Rewind: Year in Review 2011", "Rewind YouTube Style 2012", "Youtube Rewind: What does 2013 Say?", "Youtube Rewind: Turn Down for 2014", "YouTube Rewind: Now Watch Me 2015" and "Rewind 2016: The Ultimate 2016 Challenge.", respectively.
Challenging the Influence of Interactivity on Narrative Structures in Digital Games. an Analysis of Adventure Genres
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Yavuz, Nilufer Zeynep; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
This study analyzes the narrative structure of the computer games after the emergence of the computer technology which provides an opportunity for the game designers to create more extensive narrative structures. The aim is to introduce a framework which contains J. Campbell’s “monomyth” theory and C. Vogler’s modernization of the same theory specify the indicatives thereafter create an understanding of game narrative in an approach that is correspondent with the classical narrative structure. This thesis tries to indicate whether the entrance of a new perception of technology which brings the interactivity notion to human life changes the practices and the fundamentals of the classical narrative structure. The purpose of this thesis is to understand how the adventure game scenarios are constituted to see if the structure of the games have overtones of the classical narrative and to determine the influence of the interactivity by picking two games of adventure genre and analyzing their quest lines.
Incorporating the Non-Expert Publıic To Heritage Practices From Below
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2018) Toktaş, Özge; Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
in our 21st century cultural heritage field grows to be much more dynamic participatory open to change and dialogue. The scope of cultural heritage too broadens. People who are supposed to inherit heritage are acknowledged as not just mere inheritors anymore but also as the creators of heritage itself. Quite supportive of this development new media lead the way of hearing user-generated contents in cultural heritage practices that used to be strictly confined to the expert-based opinions. in light of these progresses this thesis endeavors to make visible the efforts of incorporating the non-expert public to heritage practices from below in Turkey. Although there are institutional efforts of integrating the public to the cultural heritage practices through new media and there are studies on such efforts the heritage practices from below are quite neglected by the scholarly literature here in Turkey. Following up this fact this thesis elaborates on the four cases which embrace a bottom-up heritage discourse in Turkey. Adopting an ethnographic approach the thesis analyzes the four chosen cases (Ýstanbul Kent Savunmasi Memory Map UrbanObscura Adalara Ses Ol) through in depth interviews and concludes with an argument that to achieve a bottom-up application of such participatory discourse is difficult while the expert’s dominance design and guidance is still impenetrable. Altogether the cases examined here indeed variegate heritage stories.