Suncem Kocer
Biographic Data
| ID | 180384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suncem Kocer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suncem |
| FAMILY NAME | Kocer |
| SIGNATURE | KOCER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kadir Has University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5507-2448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Generative AI in authoritarian Turkey’s field of journalism: Enhanced efficiency, amplified precarity, and new imaginaries at work
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…
Skeptical Inertia in the Face of Polarization: News Consumption and Misinformation in Turkey
Focusing on Turkey, this article analyzes the role of polarization on news users’ perception of misinformation and mistrust in the news on social media. Turkey is one of the countries where citizens complain most about misinformation on the internet. The citizens’ trust in news institutions is also in continuous decline. Furthermore, both Turkish society and its media landscape are politically highly polarized. Focusing on Turkey’s highly polariz…
Folk theories of false information: A mixed-methods study in the context of Covid-19 in Turkey
This study explores how media users define false information in the daily flow of their lives against a backdrop of sociopolitical contexts. We focus on the vernacular definitions of false information through the concept of folk theories, which are the intuitive explanatory tools users develop to make sense of and act in the world around them. Based on mixed-method research conducted in Turkey during the Covid-19 pandemic, we identify three preva…
Invented Myths in Contemporary Turkish Political Advertising
Social business in online financing: Crowdfunding narratives of independent documentary producers in Turkey
Crowdfunding is a relatively novel concept in Turkish public discourse. Yet, activist media producers in Turkey actively use online opportunities to solicit production, post-production and distribution financing. This article explores crowdfunding as a signifier that draws public attention to media texts for which online funding drives are performed. As crowdfunding campaigns circulate through social media, they forge publics around the related f…
Kurdish Cinema as a Transnational Discourse Genre: Cinematic Visibility, Cultural Resilience, and Political Agency
Within the last few years, “Kurdish cinema” has emerged as a unique discursive subject in Turkey. Subsequent to and in line with efforts to unify Kurdish cultural production in diaspora, Kurdish intellectuals have endeavored to define and frame the substance of Kurdish cinema as an orienting framework for the production and reception of films by and about Kurds. In this article, my argument is threefold. First, Kurdish cinema has emerged as a nat…
‘Rhino Season is in exile, just like me’: An interview with Bahman Ghobadi
In recent decades the presence of dramatic actions in healing has been recognized and analysed through a performance approach in anthropology. Scholars have highlighted the dramatic features of healing performances around the world, and some, applying notions such as ‘catharsis’, ‘charismatic healing’ and ‘geographic healing’ to such performances, have thereby bridged the gap between theatre and medicine. The question remains as to how far such a…
Making transnational publics: Circuits of censorship and technologies of publicity in Kurdish media circulation
Kurdish media producers who interweave social and political agendas with their filmmaking are often marginalized within Turkish media worlds. Impeded by national censorship, these filmmakers move between national and transnational media worlds to advance their cinematic work. Such movement helps them create and maintain transnational publics that reinforce circulation of their media texts. Here I analyze how a documentary film about a seminomadic…
Making transnational publics: Circuits of censorship and technologies of publicity in Kurdish media circulation
Kurdish media producers who interweave social and political agendas with their filmmaking are often marginalized within Turkish media worlds. Impeded by national censorship, these filmmakers move between national and transnational media worlds to advance their cinematic work. Such movement helps them create and maintain transnational publics that reinforce circulation of their media texts. Here I analyze how a documentary film about a seminomadic…
Kurdish Cinema as a Transnational Discourse Genre: Cinematic Visibility, Cultural Resilience, and Political Agency
Within the last few years, “Kurdish cinema” has emerged as a unique discursive subject in Turkey. Subsequent to and in line with efforts to unify Kurdish cultural production in diaspora, Kurdish intellectuals have endeavored to define and frame the substance of Kurdish cinema as an orienting framework for the production and reception of films by and about Kurds. In this article, my argument is threefold. First, Kurdish cinema has emerged as a nat…
Social business in online financing: Crowdfunding narratives of independent documentary producers in Turkey
Crowdfunding is a relatively novel concept in Turkish public discourse. Yet, activist media producers in Turkey actively use online opportunities to solicit production, post-production and distribution financing. This article explores crowdfunding as a signifier that draws public attention to media texts for which online funding drives are performed. As crowdfunding campaigns circulate through social media, they forge publics around the related f…
Folk theories of false information: A mixed-methods study in the context of Covid-19 in Turkey
This study explores how media users define false information in the daily flow of their lives against a backdrop of sociopolitical contexts. We focus on the vernacular definitions of false information through the concept of folk theories, which are the intuitive explanatory tools users develop to make sense of and act in the world around them. Based on mixed-method research conducted in Turkey during the Covid-19 pandemic, we identify three preva…
‘Rhino Season is in exile, just like me’: An interview with Bahman Ghobadi
In recent decades the presence of dramatic actions in healing has been recognized and analysed through a performance approach in anthropology. Scholars have highlighted the dramatic features of healing performances around the world, and some, applying notions such as ‘catharsis’, ‘charismatic healing’ and ‘geographic healing’ to such performances, have thereby bridged the gap between theatre and medicine. The question remains as to how far such a…
Making transnational publics: Circuits of censorship and technologies of publicity in Kurdish media circulation
Kurdish media producers who interweave social and political agendas with their filmmaking are often marginalized within Turkish media worlds. Impeded by national censorship, these filmmakers move between national and transnational media worlds to advance their cinematic work. Such movement helps them create and maintain transnational publics that reinforce circulation of their media texts. Here I analyze how a documentary film about a seminomadic…
Social business in online financing: Crowdfunding narratives of independent documentary producers in Turkey
Crowdfunding is a relatively novel concept in Turkish public discourse. Yet, activist media producers in Turkey actively use online opportunities to solicit production, post-production and distribution financing. This article explores crowdfunding as a signifier that draws public attention to media texts for which online funding drives are performed. As crowdfunding campaigns circulate through social media, they forge publics around the related f…
Kurdish Cinema as a Transnational Discourse Genre: Cinematic Visibility, Cultural Resilience, and Political Agency
Within the last few years, “Kurdish cinema” has emerged as a unique discursive subject in Turkey. Subsequent to and in line with efforts to unify Kurdish cultural production in diaspora, Kurdish intellectuals have endeavored to define and frame the substance of Kurdish cinema as an orienting framework for the production and reception of films by and about Kurds. In this article, my argument is threefold. First, Kurdish cinema has emerged as a nat…
Invented Myths in Contemporary Turkish Political Advertising
Skeptical Inertia in the Face of Polarization: News Consumption and Misinformation in Turkey
Focusing on Turkey, this article analyzes the role of polarization on news users’ perception of misinformation and mistrust in the news on social media. Turkey is one of the countries where citizens complain most about misinformation on the internet. The citizens’ trust in news institutions is also in continuous decline. Furthermore, both Turkish society and its media landscape are politically highly polarized. Focusing on Turkey’s highly polariz…
Folk theories of false information: A mixed-methods study in the context of Covid-19 in Turkey
This study explores how media users define false information in the daily flow of their lives against a backdrop of sociopolitical contexts. We focus on the vernacular definitions of false information through the concept of folk theories, which are the intuitive explanatory tools users develop to make sense of and act in the world around them. Based on mixed-method research conducted in Turkey during the Covid-19 pandemic, we identify three preva…
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…
Generative AI in authoritarian Turkey’s field of journalism: Enhanced efficiency, amplified precarity, and new imaginaries at work
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Turkish (6 works) · History (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)