Way, Lyndon

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Way, Lyndon C. S.
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lyndon.way@ieu.edu.tr
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04.02. New Media and Communication
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Music as Multimodal Discourse: Semiotics, Power and Protest4
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    Citation - WoS: 2
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    Visuals in Turkish Pop: the Subversive Role of Cultural Hybrids
    (Sage Publications Inc, 2016) Way, Lyndon C. S.
    Globalisation brings with it fears of cultural imperialism and a global mass culture from the West. This article contends that global imagery in the promotion of Turkish popular music actually enhances difference within Turkey. Global images are employed alongside Turkish ones to create an array of cross-cultural hybrids which Turkish viewers may read as expressions of cultural, political and social difference. A social semiotic approach is used on a sample of visuals from three genres of popular music. Analysis is complemented with an historical and social contextualisation in order to enhance understanding of how images blend the global with the local' in different ways to enable a medium of protest. Here is a case where global images are an integral part of hybrids which express dissent to national social and political issues.
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    Citation - WoS: 5
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    Turkish Newspapers' Role in Winning Votes and Exasperating Turkish-Kurdish Relations: the Agri Shootings
    (Sage Publications Inc, 2016) Way, Lyndon C. S.; Kaya, Ece Nur
    Relations between Turkish authorities and their Kurdish minority have been a source of conflict for decades. On 11 April 2015, in the run-up to Turkey's parliamentary elections, a gunfight broke out in the south-eastern province of Agri, resulting in six Kurdish people being killed and four Turkish military personnel wounded. Although skirmishes like this are not unusual, this caught the public imagination as it became clear that Kurdish civilians had helped wounded Turkish soldiers after the shoot-out. The government denied such help and was keen to place the blame for the fight on the Kurdish opposition in its attempt to dissuade the public from voting for Kurdish-oriented parties, thereby increasing their chances of securing a parliamentary majority. The Kurds were keen to do the same to the government for the sake of votes, while the mainstream opposition saw this as an opportunity to represent the government and Kurds as poor voting options. The Turkish media, polarised and closely aligned to political interests, recontextualised events in ways which showed their political ties. This article uses critical discourse analysis to show how this was done in three national newspapers. Furthermore, the article argues that representations as such do nothing to aid in solving the decades-old problem of how Turks and Kurds can coexist peacefully.
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    Citation - WoS: 7
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    The Local News Media Impeding Solutions To the Cyprus Conflict: Competing Discourses of Nationalism in Turkish Cypriot Radio News
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011) Way, Lyndon C. S.
    This paper, drawing on data from a news production study, carries out a critical discourse analysis of two stories produced by the Turkish Cypriot national news agency (TAK) and the stories produced by three local radio stations based on these texts. Both TAK and the three stations are partisan and used by owners and the elite for political self-promotion that supports what are broadly two different kinds of economic interests. One seeks to benefit from economic links with mainland Turkey and the other through relative independence yet continued isolation and separation from the Greek Cypriot-controlled Republic of Cyprus. Neither position favours unification with the Republic of Cyprus now highly popular with the majority of the population. To this end, stations recontextualise events to promote two different discourses of national identity, one that is Turkish and one that is based on an independent Turkish Cyprus. While listeners tend to accept that news broadcasts will reflect the viewpoints of owners and controllers, what is less understood is the way that even the most mundane and banal news stories are recontextualised to support these. It is this that is explored in this paper.
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    Citation - WoS: 9
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    Discourses of Popular Politics, War and Authenticity in Turkish Pop Music
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2013) Way, Lyndon C. S.
    Turkey and the United States (US) have had a close mutually beneficial political and military relationship since the end of World War Two. However, this relationship came under pressure when the US government and Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) tried to cooperate closely in the 2003 military invasion of Iraq. AKP's leadership failed to persuade Turkey's parliament to accept the deployment of US troops and equipment in Turkey partially due to public opinion. Despite Turkish media and its government being intertwined to the extent where subversive discourses are all but silenced, some popular music videos were able to articulate discourses which questioned AKP's military policies. This paper analyses lyrics, visuals and sounds of one of these songs to look at the way war and political issues become articulated through a form of simplified popular politics, despite being presented as serious and authentic by a number of key signifiers across the different modes. A number of scholars have addressed the issue of subversion in music both as actual political challenge and as popular counter culture. This case study is used to assess subversion in music in these terms in order to consider its likely place in political debate in Turkey.
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    Youtube as a Site of Debate Through Populist Politics: the Case of a Turkish Protest Pop Video [2016]
    (Routledge, 2016) Way, Lyndon C. S.
    6During and immediately after the 2013 anti-government protests in Turkey, while there was almost complete state control over mainstream media, anti-government pop videos posted on YouTube became a symbolic rallying point for protest movements and attracted vast amounts of posted comments. These were widely shared and became sung in public places and during clashes with the police. These videos and the comments posted below them can be examined in the light of scholarly debates about the role of social media in public debate and protest movements. For critical discourse analysis, this provides the challenge to analyse the discourses realised in both the video and in the comments themselves. In popular music studies, it has been suggested that pop songs have been unsuccessful at communicating more than populist political sentiments. From a discursive point of view, the paper shows that this is indeed the case for one Turkish iconic protest video. It also finds that comments do not deal with the actual events represented in the video but seek to frame these in terms of wider forms of allegiances to, and betrayal of, a true Turkish people and in the light of homogenised and reduced forms of history.
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    Citation - WoS: 18
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    Protest Music, Populism, Politics and Authenticity the Limits and Potential of Popular Music's Articulation of Subversive Politics
    (John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2016) Way, Lyndon C. S.
    Political discourses are found not only in speeches and newspapers, but also in cultural artefacts such as architecture, art and music. Turkey's June 2013 protests saw an explosion of music videos distributed on the internet. This paper uses these videos as a case study to examine the limits and potential of popular music's articulation of popular and populist politics. Though both terms encompass what is widely favoured, populism includes discourses which construct the people pitted against an elite. Past research has shown how popular music can articulate subversive politics, though these do not detail what that subversion means and how it is articulated. This paper uses specific examples to demonstrate how musical sounds, lyrics and images articulate populist and popular politics. From a corpus of over 100 videos, a typical example is analysed employing social semiotics. It is found that popular music has the potential to contribute to the public sphere, though its limits are also exposed.
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    Citation - WoS: 21
    Citation - Scopus: 37
    Understanding Music as Multimodal Discourse
    (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2017) Way, L.C.S.; McKerrell, S.
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    Citation - WoS: 5
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    Orientalism in Online News: Bbc Stories of Somali Piracy
    (Intellect Ltd, 2013) Way, Lyndon C. S.
    This article considers how news stories about piracy off the coast of Somalia reflect E. Said's concept of Orientalism, that is, the West representing the Rest in ways beneficial to the West. Critical discourse analysis is applied to news stories from the international BBC news website to reveal strategies used to represent a non-western 'other' in need of control by a successful West. This legitimates the West's military presence and actions whilst challenging BBC's claims of objectivity. An historical account of both Somalia and piracy precede this analysis. The former illustrates how Somalia's current 'failed state' status is in part due to foreign involvement while the latter describes how this status has produced conditions conducive to piracy. Actions by the West together with the BBC's Orientalist perspective do little to relieve Somalia's hardship, suffering and ending Somalia's multiple problems.
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    Citation - WoS: 24
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    Youtube as a Site of Debate Through Populist Politics: the Case of a Turkish Protest Pop Video [2015]
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015) Way, Lyndon C. S.
    During and immediately after the 2013 anti-government protests in Turkey, while there was almost complete state control over mainstream media, anti-government pop videos posted on YouTube became a symbolic rallying point for protest movements and attracted vast amounts of posted comments. These were widely shared and became sung in public places and during clashes with the police. These videos and the comments posted below them can be examined in the light of scholarly debates about the role of social media in public debate and protest movements. For critical discourse analysis, this provides the challenge to analyse the discourses realised in both the video and in the comments themselves. In popular music studies, it has been suggested that pop songs have been unsuccessful at communicating more than populist political sentiments. From a discursive point of view, the paper shows that this is indeed the case for one Turkish iconic protest video. It also finds that comments do not deal with the actual events represented in the video but seek to frame these in terms of wider forms of allegiances to, and betrayal of, a true Turkish people and in the light of homogenised and reduced forms of history.
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    Citation - WoS: 4
    Citation - Scopus: 9