Local Broadcasting as Tactical Media

Exploring Practices of Kurdish Activism and Journalism in Turkey

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12955779
AutoresEce Algan (0000-0002-8761-1052, Loughborough University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen12
Número2
Páginas220-235
Fecha de publicación2019-09-13
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMiddle East Journal of Culture and Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1873-9857 • E-ISSN: 1873-9865
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/18739865-01202005
OpenAlexW2972482465
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas23

Against the backdrop of struggles that local broadcasters in Turkey who advocate for Kurdish minority rights have endured, I discuss local broadcast journalists’ tactics for creating and maintaining programming that caters to the ongoing Kurdish conflict. Local ethnic broadcasting in Kurdish provinces has long strived to offer an alternative discourse than that of the state propaganda and to mobilize political support within and outside Turkey. In order to illustrate the role of Kurdish activist journalism in political mobilization, I analyze examples of local radio programming from 2010 to 2013, a period during which broadcasters in Kurdish provinces enjoyed relative freedom. I aim to illustrate the instrumentality of activist journalism in an authoritarian regime, and the ways in which local broadcasting is utilized as tactical media by both activist journalists and the community they serve

Authoritarianism · Broadcasting (networking · Business · Computer security · Democracy · Ethnic group · Freedom of the press · Journalism · Media studies · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Turkey's Politics and Society