Nazlı Özkan
Biographic Data
| ID | 165163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nazlı Özkan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nazlı |
| FAMILY NAME | Özkan |
| SIGNATURE | ÖZKAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Koç University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7085-5934 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rethinking news trust in post-truth Turkey: Immediacy as the imagined affordance of television and search engines
In today’s post-truth world, news users grapple with the tension between growing distrust in news institutions and the need for “true” information. Based on a mixed-methods study conducted in Turkey, this paper examines strategies developed by news users to establish trust in media tools in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and populist polarization. We first collected data with a nationally representative survey ( N = 1089). Then, 30 media us…
Representing Alevism on Alevi Television: The Formation of Dedes ' Religious Authority in Turkey
This ethnographic study explores the intricate dynamics between media representation and religious authority within Turkey's Alevi minority, focusing on the production of religious programs at Cem TV and TV 10. Despite their distinct portrayals of Alevism, the study concludes that both television networks prioritize presenting a specific representation of Alevism over nurturing pious cultivation and upholding the religious authority of dedes . Th…
Sensing” productivity at home: Self-tracking technologies, gender, and labor in Turkey
This article explores how women in Turkey use sensing technologies to render visible their productivity at home in ways that contest home–workplace boundary under neoliberal, digital capitalism. It does so by focusing on a group of lower- and middle-class women, who work from home as both paid laborers and unpaid caregivers. Although neoliberalism makes it harder to distinguish home and workplace, my digital ethnography highlights that women work…
Wireless telephone, materiality, and making of the national auditory in Turkey
This paper focuses on the radio’s novelty years in 1920s Turkey to examine how the functions of wireless technology as a material artifact are negotiated in ways that fashion a national auditory. Most studies on radio’s history prioritize sound, eliding people’s tinkering with the wireless as a technical object. Based on archival research and oral history interviews, I suggest that early radio as a material object required as much of its listener…
Producing Journalistic Authority in the Age of Digital Media: Temporality, Media Affordance, and Ethical Reflexivity in Turkey’s Media Sphere
This article examines how journalists in Turkey form their authority and strengthen control over their news craft in the digital age through processing ( işlemek ) the news. Processing combines two crucial components: ethical engagement with news stories and a flexible time frame. Drawing on ethnographic and visual analysis of televisual, newspaper, and internet production at Turkey’s socialist Yüzyıl newspaper, I argue that journalists invest mo…
Representing Religious Discrimination at the Margins: Temporalities and "Appropriate" Identities of the State in Turkey
In Turkey during Ramadan in the 2000s, a group of Sunni Muslims attacked a Kurdish Alevi family that was not fasting. The Alevis, Turkey's second-largest religious group, do not fast during Ramadan, creating tensions in mixed neighborhoods in which Sunni Islam is the reigning religion. This article analyzes how an Alevi-run television station covered this event, from its location in a provincial town to related protests in Istanbul, to show how m…
Representing Religious Discrimination at the Margins: Temporalities and "Appropriate" Identities of the State in Turkey
In Turkey during Ramadan in the 2000s, a group of Sunni Muslims attacked a Kurdish Alevi family that was not fasting. The Alevis, Turkey's second-largest religious group, do not fast during Ramadan, creating tensions in mixed neighborhoods in which Sunni Islam is the reigning religion. This article analyzes how an Alevi-run television station covered this event, from its location in a provincial town to related protests in Istanbul, to show how m…
Wireless telephone, materiality, and making of the national auditory in Turkey
This paper focuses on the radio’s novelty years in 1920s Turkey to examine how the functions of wireless technology as a material artifact are negotiated in ways that fashion a national auditory. Most studies on radio’s history prioritize sound, eliding people’s tinkering with the wireless as a technical object. Based on archival research and oral history interviews, I suggest that early radio as a material object required as much of its listener…
Sensing” productivity at home: Self-tracking technologies, gender, and labor in Turkey
This article explores how women in Turkey use sensing technologies to render visible their productivity at home in ways that contest home–workplace boundary under neoliberal, digital capitalism. It does so by focusing on a group of lower- and middle-class women, who work from home as both paid laborers and unpaid caregivers. Although neoliberalism makes it harder to distinguish home and workplace, my digital ethnography highlights that women work…
Representing Religious Discrimination at the Margins: Temporalities and "Appropriate" Identities of the State in Turkey
In Turkey during Ramadan in the 2000s, a group of Sunni Muslims attacked a Kurdish Alevi family that was not fasting. The Alevis, Turkey's second-largest religious group, do not fast during Ramadan, creating tensions in mixed neighborhoods in which Sunni Islam is the reigning religion. This article analyzes how an Alevi-run television station covered this event, from its location in a provincial town to related protests in Istanbul, to show how m…
Producing Journalistic Authority in the Age of Digital Media: Temporality, Media Affordance, and Ethical Reflexivity in Turkey’s Media Sphere
This article examines how journalists in Turkey form their authority and strengthen control over their news craft in the digital age through processing ( işlemek ) the news. Processing combines two crucial components: ethical engagement with news stories and a flexible time frame. Drawing on ethnographic and visual analysis of televisual, newspaper, and internet production at Turkey’s socialist Yüzyıl newspaper, I argue that journalists invest mo…
Sensing” productivity at home: Self-tracking technologies, gender, and labor in Turkey
This article explores how women in Turkey use sensing technologies to render visible their productivity at home in ways that contest home–workplace boundary under neoliberal, digital capitalism. It does so by focusing on a group of lower- and middle-class women, who work from home as both paid laborers and unpaid caregivers. Although neoliberalism makes it harder to distinguish home and workplace, my digital ethnography highlights that women work…
Wireless telephone, materiality, and making of the national auditory in Turkey
This paper focuses on the radio’s novelty years in 1920s Turkey to examine how the functions of wireless technology as a material artifact are negotiated in ways that fashion a national auditory. Most studies on radio’s history prioritize sound, eliding people’s tinkering with the wireless as a technical object. Based on archival research and oral history interviews, I suggest that early radio as a material object required as much of its listener…
Representing Alevism on Alevi Television: The Formation of Dedes ' Religious Authority in Turkey
This ethnographic study explores the intricate dynamics between media representation and religious authority within Turkey's Alevi minority, focusing on the production of religious programs at Cem TV and TV 10. Despite their distinct portrayals of Alevism, the study concludes that both television networks prioritize presenting a specific representation of Alevism over nurturing pious cultivation and upholding the religious authority of dedes . Th…
Rethinking news trust in post-truth Turkey: Immediacy as the imagined affordance of television and search engines
In today’s post-truth world, news users grapple with the tension between growing distrust in news institutions and the need for “true” information. Based on a mixed-methods study conducted in Turkey, this paper examines strategies developed by news users to establish trust in media tools in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and populist polarization. We first collected data with a nationally representative survey ( N = 1089). Then, 30 media us…
Political science (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (3 works) · Affordance (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)