(Il)Legitimisation of the role of the nation state: Understanding of and reactions to Internet censorship in Turkey
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Date
2014
Authors
Yalkın, Çağrı
Kerrigan, Finola
vom, Lehn Dirk
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Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Abstract
This study aims to explore Turkish citizen-consumers' understanding of and reactions to censorship of websites in Turkey by using in-depth interviews and online ethnography. In an environment where sites such as YouTube and others are increasingly being banned the citizen-consumers' macro-level understanding is that such censorship is part of a wider ideological plan and their micro-level understanding is that their relationship with the wider global network is reduced in the sense that they have trouble accessing full information on products services and experiences. The study revealed that citizen-consumers engage in two types of resistance strategies against such domination by the state: using irony as passive resistance and using the very same technology used by the state to resist its domination.
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Keywords
Turkey, Resistance, YouTube, Consumption, Citizen-consumers, Internet censorship
Turkish CoHE Thesis Center URL
Citation
11
WoS Q
Q1
Scopus Q
Q1
Source
Volume
16
Issue
2
Start Page
271
End Page
289