Media and democracy in Turkey: Toward a model of neoliberal media autocracy

dc.contributor.authorBaybars Hawks, Banu
dc.contributor.authorAkser, Murat
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-13T20:34:42Z
dc.date.available2021-02-13T20:34:42Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThis paper reveals the ways in which media autocracy operates on political, judicial, economic and discursive levels in post-2007 Turkish media. Newsmakers in Turkey currently experience five different systemic kinds of neoliberal government pressures to keep their voice down: conglomerate pressure, judicial suppression, online banishment, surveillance defamation and accreditation discrimination. The progression of restrictions on media freedom has increased in volume annually since 2007; this includes pressure on the Dogan Media Group, the YouTube ban, arrests of journalists in the Ergenekon trials, phone tapping/taping of political figures and the exclusion of all unfriendly reporters from political circles. The levels and tools of this autocracy eventually lead to certain conclusions about the qualities of this media environment: it is a historically conservative, redistributive, panoptic and discriminatory media autocracy.en_US
dc.identifier.citation81
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/18739865-00503011en_US
dc.identifier.endpage321en_US
dc.identifier.issn1873-9857en_US
dc.identifier.issn1873-9857
dc.identifier.issue3en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84890903242en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ3
dc.identifier.startpage302en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/3916
dc.identifier.volume5en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000214540600004en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.institutionauthorBaybars Hawks, Banuen_US
dc.institutionauthorAkser, Muraten_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.journalMiddle East Journal of Culture and Communicationen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectAKPen_US
dc.subjectCensorshipen_US
dc.subjectJournalismen_US
dc.subjectMedia autocracyen_US
dc.subjectSurveillanceen_US
dc.titleMedia and democracy in Turkey: Toward a model of neoliberal media autocracyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication

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