Akın, Altuğ

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Akin, Altug
Akin, Altuğ
Akin, A.
Akın, A.
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altug.akin@ieu.edu.tr
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04.02. New Media and Communication
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0000-0001-8903-5733
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57193994145
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D21737FF5FC9CBED
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ySLUykEAAAAJ
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BBC-0159-2021
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NO POVERTY1
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ZERO HUNGER2
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GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING3
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QUALITY EDUCATION4
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GENDER EQUALITY5
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CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION6
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AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY7
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DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH8
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INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE9
INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
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REDUCED INEQUALITIES10
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SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES11
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RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION12
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CLIMATE ACTION13
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LIFE BELOW WATER14
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LIFE ON LAND15
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PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS16
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PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS17
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0.87

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Mıddle East Journal of Culture And Communıcatıon2
Football in Turkey1
Ilef Dergısı1
Internatıonal Journal of Communıcatıon1
Journalısm1
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    Gazete Sahipliğinin Editoryal Bağımsızlık ve Kurumsal Aidiyet Üzerindeki Etkileri: "gazetecilerin Gazetesi" 9 Eylül Örneği
    (İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi, 2023) Umdular, Di̇lek Gappi̇; Akın, Altuğ
    Bu çalışma, İzmir Gazeteciler Cemiyeti'nin iktisadi işletmesi olan 9 Eylül gazetesinin çoğulcu ve profesyonel gazetecilerden oluşan sahiplik yapısının editoryal bağımsızlığa ve çalışanların kurumsal aidiyet algısına ne yönde etki ettiğini tespit etmek amacıyla hazırlanmıştır. Çalışmada veriler, 7 yönetim kurulu üyesi/gazeteci ve 7 fiili olarak çalışan gazeteci olmak üzere toplam 14 gazeteciyle derinlemesine görüşme tekniği ile toplanmıştır. Yüz yüze görüşme yapılarak toplanan veriler, tematik analiz yöntemiyle incelenmiştir. Çalışmanın başlıca üç önemi bulunmaktadır. İlk olarak basın sektöründe sahiplik yapısıyla istisnai bir örnek oluşturan 9 Eylül gazetesiyle ilgili literatürde herhangi bir inceleme yapılmamıştır. İkinci olarak literatürde basın işletmelerinin sahiplik yapısı ve editoryal bağımsızlık ilişkisi, profesyonel gazetecilerin yönetiminde olan bir gazete üzerinden incelenmemiştir. Üçüncü olarak basın işletmelerinin sahiplik yapısı ile kurumsal aidiyet arasındaki ilişki, henüz bir araştırmaya konu edilmemiştir. Bu bakımdan çalışma, sayılan gerekçeler itibariyle diğer çalışmalardan ayrılmaktadır ve bu yönüyle araştırmanın literatüre katkı sağlaması umulmaktadır.
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    Conditions of Sense Making and News Making in Turkey After the Failed Coup Attempt: Sisyphus Labor on Two Fronts
    (Sage Publications Inc, 2016-11-17) Akin, Altug
    Turkey has been experiencing events with major impacts on almost all areas of life, including journalism, since the failed coup attempt of 15 July. Since then, the public's access to healthy news by the public and news making by journalists/news organizations have become increasingly crucial, yet complex operations. This article focuses on the 2 months after failed coup attempt, from the events that took place in the very first hours of the coup attempt, which are presented and discussed from media and communication perspective. This is followed by a detailed critical examination of consequently declared state of emergency in relation to news and news organizations. Then, post-coup attempt situation in Turkey is contextualized in a global tendency, namely, increasing complexity in sense making as journalistic institutions' public service roles deteriorate.
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    Marshall Plan Films and Documentaries: a Meditation on Origin of Communication for Development in Turkey
    (Ankara Univ, Fac Communication, 2021-12-31) Akin, Altug
    Concerned with exploiting communication tools for development purposes, Communication for Development was born in the specific context of post-World War II years as an implementation area or practice, prior to its establishment as an academic research domain. The same era coincidences with implementation of Marshall Plan, which included Turkey among its beneficiary countries. Marshall Plan and its communication, with a specific focus on the films in/about Turkey, constitute the core to the study, which aims to contribute to the limited literature on Marshall Plan communication in Turkey and the history of Communication for Development in Turkey. Underlying impulses of the Plan, its implication, the communication strategies and methods utilized throughout the Plan and films are studied, while the Marshall Plan films about Turkey are contextualized in the modernization paradigm-dominated period of communication for development practice and research.
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    Does Journalism Exist in Turkey? Constraints on and Struggles in the Field of Journalism in the Post-Coup Context
    (Brill, 2019-09-13) Akin, Altug
    In this article, I analyze the post-coup media and communications environment in Turkey with a particular focus on the practice of journalism, which is becoming increasingly complicated. Following an approach that considers both the constraints imposed on journalism and struggle for news-making, this study represents an attempt to better comprehend the most recent condition of the field of journalism in Turkey, where both producing the news and making sense of the news have become increasingly arduous endeavors. In order to study the structural constraints and struggles of journalists and news organizations, I deploy Pierre Bourdieu's field theory as a theoretical framework to scrutinize the current situation of journalism in Turkey.
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    The Reality Is Not as It Seems From Turkey: Imaginations About the Eurovision Song Contest From Its Production Fields
    (Usc Annenberg Press, 2013) Akin, Altug
    This article applies notions drawn from Pierre Bourdieu's field theory to explore the Turkish production front of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) and to reveal unorthodox imaginations about the entertainment phenomenon. Its findings, based on in-depth interviews with actors who have been involved in the production of Turkey's contribution to the ESC-rather than consuming it via national media channels as the vast majority of the public does-indicate that the actors' views are vastly different from the dominant discourses about the ESC in Turkey. Along with a discussion of the reasons for the discrepancy between aggressive media discourses and producers' approaches to the ESC, this article also highlights national media outlets' key role in shaping the imaginations about communicative phenomena beyond national borders.
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    2011-2013 Constitution-Making Process and Media Field in Turkey
    (2019) Akın, Altuğ; Yaman Akyar, Burcu; Akyar, Burcu Yaman
    This paper examines so-called “Constitutional Process” which took place between 2011 and 2013 in Turkey to eventually fail after more than two years of intense work and rise of expectations both in Turkish society and international community from the perspective of media and communications. How Turkish media influenced the constitution making process including workings of Constitutional Conciliation Commission is discussed, surveying relevant media content or performance with a particular focus on the political economy of Turkish media during that period. Traditional media outlets such as newspapers and television channels, and nowadays largely digital platforms, function as present-day agoras where political agenda is determined and contested. These online and offline channels have different levels of influence on discussions of the political elite, as presented extensively in media and communication studies. Together with the global media environment, national media foster the emergence of its own elites, while maintaining multi-layered relationships with high-level political decision-making processes. Media channels therefore bear symbolic powers that impact political policymaking by employing methods such as agenda setting and framing. In this line of thought, this article approaches Turkish media space as a specific field while its content and its political economy are examined in relation with the constitution making process to reveal the role played by media during highly politicized processes, such as constitution making, as well as eliciting the dynamics that herald such media performance.
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    Atatürk and Contemporary Speech Lessons From the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Era
    (Cambridge University Press, 2017-11-17) Akın, Altuğ
    In recent decades, discussions in Turkey regarding limitations on speech and the press have intensified, attracting widespread global attention. From frequent bans on online communication platforms including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, to the seemingly arbitrary imprisonment of journalists with opposition views, regulation of speech during the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) since 2002 has been highly contentious. This chapter aims to put debate on these practices into an historical perspective, by focusing on the era of the foundation of modern Turkey, namely the late Ottoman and early Republican period, which stretched roughly between 1830 and 1945. It argues that it is in this period that significant fields of contemporary Turkey, such as politics, education, and the legal system, emerged, leaving an enduring legacy, in the context of which contemporary policies must be understood. This earlier era is associated with one of the most significant political characters in Turkey’s history, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938), who played a momentous role in the transition from the Ottoman order to modern Turkey. In his single-minded efforts to realize his utopia, a modern, secular republic being part of the Western world, Atatürk brought about a drastic reshaping of Turkish society, and neither Turkey nor the Muslim world will ever be the same again (Hanioğlu 2011, p. 232). Although Mustafa Kemal was evidently not the sole factor that made the transformation of Turkish society possible, he was a radical and authoritative figure who marked the process with his own stamp. It is therefore important to examine his approach to speech as a sociopolitical phenomenon and its regulation, in order to understand the foundational framework in which speech has been handled in the Turkish context. His stamp is central to a consideration of tendencies in speech and society in Turkey. Accordingly, after summarizing Atatürk’s views on the issue of speech, its role and regulation, this chapter presents the context of the late Ottoman and early Republican era that heralded his approach, in order to uncover his inspirations and their underlying dynamics. © Cambridge University Press 2018.