Murat Akser
Biographic Data
| ID | 213851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Murat Akser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Murat |
| FAMILY NAME | Akser |
| SIGNATURE | AKSER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9772-394X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rodney Benson, Mattias Hessérus, Timothy Neff, and Julie Sedel, How Media Ownership Matters
Canonical scholarship on the interplay between media and politics typically examines the ways in which increasingly authoritarian
Finding Leadership in Media Education
This article is an exploration of leadership in media education and some of its identifying features. As a lecturer in screen production, our teaching philosophy weaves through these themes: active learning (Budhai 2021), learning by doing (Schank et al 2013), peer and self-assessment (Iglesias Pérez, Vidal-Puga, and Pino Juste 2022) and constructive alignment (Loughlin, Lygo-Baker and Lindberg-Sand 2021)
Media Systems and Media Capture in Turkey
This article attempts to explain the current situation of the Turkish media system through the media systems approach as a case study with special attention to the concept of media capture. We propose that the Turkish media system’s shift is heavily influenced by media capture. We associate four of Hallin and Mancini’s media systems concepts related to the effects of media capture in the Turkish media system shift: rise of political parallelism, …
Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey
This article examines the historical roots of the role of successive Turkish governments’ fear of media and Turkish media’s fear of government authority with respect to the development of press freedom over the long run and closely analyzes the historical pressures imposed on journalists through legal and informal means. We focus particularly on the economic and political pressure on the media in Turkey and offer three arguments regarding the fea…
On land, memory, and masculinity
This article offers a critical reading of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree) through an exploration and critique of the mythmaking and monumentalization surrounding the Gallipoli Battle and the multiple ways in which Ceylan’s film unsettles the foundational myths of the last century in Turkey. Ceylan’s scenes and characters are constructed in such a way that the male characters and particularly Sinan (the main character) refuse …
Digital Contention in a Divided Society
Writing on Northern Ireland post troubles society is a challenge in itself; identifying and deciphering the social media culture wars between multiple opposing parties within the Northern Ireland is even a bigger challenge that Paul Reilly tackled in his book Digital Contention in a Divided Society. The book is a solid case study of affective publics contested via the microblogging site Twitter between 2012 and 2016. This is a period that has ser…
Diversity and Inclusion in Film, Television and Media Sector
This issue of CINEJ Cinema Journal observed the slow recovery from the destructive effects of COVID-19 global pandemic on filmmaking, film distribution and exhibition, and teaching film at HE institutions. One development that is on the agenda is diversity and inclusion in film industry, film education and film studies/criticism as institution. The diversity of film sets has been voiced and is gaining momentum at creative top of the line levels o…
Remembering Thomas Elsaesser and Peter Wollen
Late in 2019 film studies lost two of its founding members that help define the field as a discipline with their work in the last 50 years. Thomas Elsaesser was one of the founding members of the editorial board of CINEJ Cinema Journal. His contribution to the study of German Cinema, founding of Amsterdam School of Cultural Studies and training of countless PhD students in the field will be a long-lasting legacy for this giant figure of cinema an…
Cinema, Life and Other Viruses
This issue of CINEJ Cinema Journal witnessed the devastating effects of COVID-19 global pandemic on filmmaking, film distribution and exhibition, and teaching film at HE institutions. Global shifts in production and distribution gave rise to new stars, streaming services. The diversity of film sets was gaining momentum as film productions were halted. New reports and new investment for the future of filmmaking are at stake at this juncture. As th…
Screening the Red Army Faction
The Turkish Media Structure in Judicial and Political Context
Turkey has been undergoing a transition in governance over decades, most recently in the sociopolitical transformation from Kemalist laicism to Islamic-dominated politics. The shifts have been uneven, with government frequently overtaken by military control, and then returned to some form of democratic functioning, with associated changes in the laws reflecting greater or lesser tolerance for multi-party politics, public religious practice, and E…
Temporality of the dispossessed
In permanent crisis provides a much needed historical and philosophical background to the discussions surrounding the representation of ethnic minorities in both news media and cinema in Europe. Ip
Social movements and their technologies
Stefania Milan’s book is about the interaction between social movements and how they use media technologies. Her main premise is that communication technologies are instrumental in giving social movements a voice, and that beyond this, they are part of the impact of the social movements and they affect the way these movements operate. She calls the real life use of media in social movement activism “Emancipatory Communication Practices,” which sh…
Women and Turkish Cinema
There has been a significant recent increase in the number of English-language monographs on Turkish cinema. Savas Arslan’s Cinema in Turkey (2010), Asuman Suner’s New Turkish Cinema (2010) and Gonul Donmez-Colin’s specialized volumes (The Routledge Dictionary of Turkish Cinema, 2013; Turkish Cinema: identity, distance andbelonging; 2013) attest to this new proliferation. Eylem Atakav’s book focuses on women and Turkish cinema in the context of p…
Media and Democracy in Turkey
This paper reveals the ways in which media autocracy operates on political, judicial, economic and discursive levels in post-2007 Turkish media. Newsmakers in Turkey currently experience five different systemic kinds of neoliberal government pressures to keep their voice down: conglomerate pressure, judicial suppression, online banishment, surveillance defamation and accreditation discrimination. The progression of restrictions on media freedom h…
Media and Democracy in Turkey
This paper reveals the ways in which media autocracy operates on political, judicial, economic and discursive levels in post-2007 Turkish media. Newsmakers in Turkey currently experience five different systemic kinds of neoliberal government pressures to keep their voice down: conglomerate pressure, judicial suppression, online banishment, surveillance defamation and accreditation discrimination. The progression of restrictions on media freedom h…
Media Systems and Media Capture in Turkey
This article attempts to explain the current situation of the Turkish media system through the media systems approach as a case study with special attention to the concept of media capture. We propose that the Turkish media system’s shift is heavily influenced by media capture. We associate four of Hallin and Mancini’s media systems concepts related to the effects of media capture in the Turkish media system shift: rise of political parallelism, …
The Turkish Media Structure in Judicial and Political Context
Turkey has been undergoing a transition in governance over decades, most recently in the sociopolitical transformation from Kemalist laicism to Islamic-dominated politics. The shifts have been uneven, with government frequently overtaken by military control, and then returned to some form of democratic functioning, with associated changes in the laws reflecting greater or lesser tolerance for multi-party politics, public religious practice, and E…
Media and Democracy in Turkey
This paper reveals the ways in which media autocracy operates on political, judicial, economic and discursive levels in post-2007 Turkish media. Newsmakers in Turkey currently experience five different systemic kinds of neoliberal government pressures to keep their voice down: conglomerate pressure, judicial suppression, online banishment, surveillance defamation and accreditation discrimination. The progression of restrictions on media freedom h…
Women and Turkish Cinema
There has been a significant recent increase in the number of English-language monographs on Turkish cinema. Savas Arslan’s Cinema in Turkey (2010), Asuman Suner’s New Turkish Cinema (2010) and Gonul Donmez-Colin’s specialized volumes (The Routledge Dictionary of Turkish Cinema, 2013; Turkish Cinema: identity, distance andbelonging; 2013) attest to this new proliferation. Eylem Atakav’s book focuses on women and Turkish cinema in the context of p…
Social movements and their technologies
Stefania Milan’s book is about the interaction between social movements and how they use media technologies. Her main premise is that communication technologies are instrumental in giving social movements a voice, and that beyond this, they are part of the impact of the social movements and they affect the way these movements operate. She calls the real life use of media in social movement activism “Emancipatory Communication Practices,” which sh…
Temporality of the dispossessed
In permanent crisis provides a much needed historical and philosophical background to the discussions surrounding the representation of ethnic minorities in both news media and cinema in Europe. Ip
The Turkish Media Structure in Judicial and Political Context
Turkey has been undergoing a transition in governance over decades, most recently in the sociopolitical transformation from Kemalist laicism to Islamic-dominated politics. The shifts have been uneven, with government frequently overtaken by military control, and then returned to some form of democratic functioning, with associated changes in the laws reflecting greater or lesser tolerance for multi-party politics, public religious practice, and E…
Remembering Thomas Elsaesser and Peter Wollen
Late in 2019 film studies lost two of its founding members that help define the field as a discipline with their work in the last 50 years. Thomas Elsaesser was one of the founding members of the editorial board of CINEJ Cinema Journal. His contribution to the study of German Cinema, founding of Amsterdam School of Cultural Studies and training of countless PhD students in the field will be a long-lasting legacy for this giant figure of cinema an…
Cinema, Life and Other Viruses
This issue of CINEJ Cinema Journal witnessed the devastating effects of COVID-19 global pandemic on filmmaking, film distribution and exhibition, and teaching film at HE institutions. Global shifts in production and distribution gave rise to new stars, streaming services. The diversity of film sets was gaining momentum as film productions were halted. New reports and new investment for the future of filmmaking are at stake at this juncture. As th…
Screening the Red Army Faction
Diversity and Inclusion in Film, Television and Media Sector
This issue of CINEJ Cinema Journal observed the slow recovery from the destructive effects of COVID-19 global pandemic on filmmaking, film distribution and exhibition, and teaching film at HE institutions. One development that is on the agenda is diversity and inclusion in film industry, film education and film studies/criticism as institution. The diversity of film sets has been voiced and is gaining momentum at creative top of the line levels o…
Digital Contention in a Divided Society
Writing on Northern Ireland post troubles society is a challenge in itself; identifying and deciphering the social media culture wars between multiple opposing parties within the Northern Ireland is even a bigger challenge that Paul Reilly tackled in his book Digital Contention in a Divided Society. The book is a solid case study of affective publics contested via the microblogging site Twitter between 2012 and 2016. This is a period that has ser…
Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey
This article examines the historical roots of the role of successive Turkish governments’ fear of media and Turkish media’s fear of government authority with respect to the development of press freedom over the long run and closely analyzes the historical pressures imposed on journalists through legal and informal means. We focus particularly on the economic and political pressure on the media in Turkey and offer three arguments regarding the fea…
On land, memory, and masculinity
This article offers a critical reading of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree) through an exploration and critique of the mythmaking and monumentalization surrounding the Gallipoli Battle and the multiple ways in which Ceylan’s film unsettles the foundational myths of the last century in Turkey. Ceylan’s scenes and characters are constructed in such a way that the male characters and particularly Sinan (the main character) refuse …
Finding Leadership in Media Education
This article is an exploration of leadership in media education and some of its identifying features. As a lecturer in screen production, our teaching philosophy weaves through these themes: active learning (Budhai 2021), learning by doing (Schank et al 2013), peer and self-assessment (Iglesias Pérez, Vidal-Puga, and Pino Juste 2022) and constructive alignment (Loughlin, Lygo-Baker and Lindberg-Sand 2021)
Media Systems and Media Capture in Turkey
This article attempts to explain the current situation of the Turkish media system through the media systems approach as a case study with special attention to the concept of media capture. We propose that the Turkish media system’s shift is heavily influenced by media capture. We associate four of Hallin and Mancini’s media systems concepts related to the effects of media capture in the Turkish media system shift: rise of political parallelism, …
Rodney Benson, Mattias Hessérus, Timothy Neff, and Julie Sedel, How Media Ownership Matters
Canonical scholarship on the interplay between media and politics typically examines the ways in which increasingly authoritarian
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Movie theater (5 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (5 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works)