TR Dizin İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / TR Dizin Indexed Publications Collection

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    From Life To Its Online School: an Analysis of Alain De Botton's 'the School of Life' as Strategy and Tactic
    (Marmara Univ, Fac Communication, 2020) Karanfil, Y Gökçen; Gürsoy, A. Özgür
    Through a critical engagement with the literature on the conceptualizations of culture, this article focuses on the possibilities for empowerment and social agency that may be found in manifestations of everyday popular culture and the critiques of this approach that voice their oppressive nature. The article draws on Michel de Certeau's distinction between strategies and tactics, as qualified by Michel Foucault's use of the same conceptual pair, in order to develop a conceptual grid that emphasizes their imbrication or mutual conditioning. The key advantage offered by this grid is that it makes visible the inherently ambivalent nature of cultural products and the way in which constraining strategies and liberating tactical reversals are both made possible on the same shared site. It thus argues that popular cultural works may subvert the manipulative imperatives of the culture industry only from within a strategically structured social field. It thereby becomes possible to acknowledge the insights of the culture industry perspective of critical theory, while providing a more nuanced interpretation and evaluation of certain works of popular culture. The conceptual analysis is then applied to The School of Life (an online educational organization initiated by the popular author, philosopher, and entrepreneur Alain de Botton) both to offer an examination of this cultural artifact and to test the assumptions the theoretical framework developed.
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    Social Media in Political Communication and the Use of Twitter in the 2011 General Elections in Turkey
    (Ahmet Yesevi Univ, 2014-01-27) Bayraktutan, Gunseli; Binark, Mutlu; Comu, Tugrul; Dogu, Burak; Islamoglu, Gozde; Aydemir, Asli Telli; Binark, Ferruh Mutlu
    Social media environments, which are basically new media applications, have many users both in Turkey and in the world. These applications, which make direct interaction via the Internet possible, are used frequently by the candidates and/or the members of political parties during the election periods. This study focuses on the relationship between the candidates or members of political parties and the voters along with the social media using practices in the sample of Twitter as a social media environment, where the candidates and/or the members of political parties are users themselves, unlike the personal or institutional web sites where they have a broader ability to moderate. For this purpose, Twitter accounts belonging to the members of political parties and party leaders during Turkey's General Elections in 2011 have been examined, and the findings based on quantitative content analysis about their Twitter accounts and tweets have been evaluated.