Mehmet Ali Üzelgün
Biographic Data
| ID | 6196866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mehmet Ali Üzelgün |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mehmet Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Üzelgün |
| SIGNATURE | UZELGUN M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4426-9055 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Social Media Debate and Criticisms in the Postdisaster Context
The causal attribution of extreme events poses a communicative challenge in connecting global climate change and local vulnerabilities. Alongside improved insights into climate models and sensitivities, enhanced understanding is needed of the social and discursive dynamics that shape the attribution of responsibility in extreme events and disasters. This article examines how responsibilities are attributed in the public debate on the 2017 Pedrógã…
The future beyond Fridays
Fridays for Future, founded by young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, quickly became a transnational movement through its intense use of digital media. This article aims to understand the collective’s formation in Brazil, given the very different discourse production conditions vis-à-vis the Global North. In Study 1, employing content analysis, we identify the quantitative trends in the networked mediation of student climate strikes, demonstratin…
Young climate activists in television news
Young climate activists around the globe have been raising their voices against the inadequate response of world leaders to climate change. Mainstream media have an important role in bringing young people’s concerns to the public, but research has shown that, in some countries, news outlets have failed to adequately represent their political voice. In view of a prevailing depoliticization of climate change, this study focuses on Portugal’s televi…
Reporting on Young Climate Activism
Published online: 27 Nov 2024
Assessing coherence and fidelity
Non-fictional narratives have an open-ended character that projects roles and values to those who participate in them. Narrative participation, in turn, entails narrative assessment and identification processes, through which adherence to values and positions may fail or be achieved. In the analysis of interviews with university students across Turkey, we draw on Fisher’s narrative paradigm to focus on how our participants carry out assessments o…
Beyond the co-production of technology and society
Favorite Battlegrounds of Climate Action
This article examines how two conflicting views regarding science-society relations—science as the arbiter of truth and as a social endeavor—perpetuate a tension in the way scientific consensus and evidence are called upon in climate change debate. In our analysis of interviews with climate change campaigners, we employ argumentation theory and social representations theory to identify and account for three discursive strategies of responding to …
Managing disagreement through yes, but … constructions
The goal of this study is to examine the argumentative functions of concessive yes, but... constructions. Based on ( N = 22) interview transcripts, we examine the ways environmental activists negotiate their agreements and disagreements over climate change through yes, but... constructions. Starting from conversational analyses of such concessive sequences, we develop an account grounded in argumentative discourse analysis, notably pragma-dialect…
Climate Change in the Mainstream Turkish Press
This article examines how climate change is represented by the mainstream press in a developing country context characterized by long-term avoidance of the issue. Study 1 establishes the issue coverage trends in two mainstream Turkish newspapers (1997–2013). Study 2 focuses on the news sections of these papers that were used for reporting about the issue in the first attention cycle (1997–2009) to summarize the knowledge and meaning dimensions pr…
The Voice of Science on Climate Change in the Mainstream Turkish Press
This study aims to explore how the Turkish press represents the discourse of climate change scientists. This is achieved by analyzing climate change-related articles that quote scientists, directly and indirectly, in two Turkish mainstream newspapers (N = 132, 7 years). The Turkish case illustrates how scientific rhetoric is used for presenting climate change as a matter of concern in an industrializing country. The analysis suggests that climate…
Climate Change in the Mainstream Turkish Press
This article examines how climate change is represented by the mainstream press in a developing country context characterized by long-term avoidance of the issue. Study 1 establishes the issue coverage trends in two mainstream Turkish newspapers (1997–2013). Study 2 focuses on the news sections of these papers that were used for reporting about the issue in the first attention cycle (1997–2009) to summarize the knowledge and meaning dimensions pr…
Beyond the co-production of technology and society
Favorite Battlegrounds of Climate Action
This article examines how two conflicting views regarding science-society relations—science as the arbiter of truth and as a social endeavor—perpetuate a tension in the way scientific consensus and evidence are called upon in climate change debate. In our analysis of interviews with climate change campaigners, we employ argumentation theory and social representations theory to identify and account for three discursive strategies of responding to …
The Voice of Science on Climate Change in the Mainstream Turkish Press
This study aims to explore how the Turkish press represents the discourse of climate change scientists. This is achieved by analyzing climate change-related articles that quote scientists, directly and indirectly, in two Turkish mainstream newspapers (N = 132, 7 years). The Turkish case illustrates how scientific rhetoric is used for presenting climate change as a matter of concern in an industrializing country. The analysis suggests that climate…
Managing disagreement through yes, but … constructions
The goal of this study is to examine the argumentative functions of concessive yes, but... constructions. Based on ( N = 22) interview transcripts, we examine the ways environmental activists negotiate their agreements and disagreements over climate change through yes, but... constructions. Starting from conversational analyses of such concessive sequences, we develop an account grounded in argumentative discourse analysis, notably pragma-dialect…
Climate Change in the Mainstream Turkish Press
This article examines how climate change is represented by the mainstream press in a developing country context characterized by long-term avoidance of the issue. Study 1 establishes the issue coverage trends in two mainstream Turkish newspapers (1997–2013). Study 2 focuses on the news sections of these papers that were used for reporting about the issue in the first attention cycle (1997–2009) to summarize the knowledge and meaning dimensions pr…
Favorite Battlegrounds of Climate Action
This article examines how two conflicting views regarding science-society relations—science as the arbiter of truth and as a social endeavor—perpetuate a tension in the way scientific consensus and evidence are called upon in climate change debate. In our analysis of interviews with climate change campaigners, we employ argumentation theory and social representations theory to identify and account for three discursive strategies of responding to …
Beyond the co-production of technology and society
Young climate activists in television news
Young climate activists around the globe have been raising their voices against the inadequate response of world leaders to climate change. Mainstream media have an important role in bringing young people’s concerns to the public, but research has shown that, in some countries, news outlets have failed to adequately represent their political voice. In view of a prevailing depoliticization of climate change, this study focuses on Portugal’s televi…
Reporting on Young Climate Activism
Published online: 27 Nov 2024
Assessing coherence and fidelity
Non-fictional narratives have an open-ended character that projects roles and values to those who participate in them. Narrative participation, in turn, entails narrative assessment and identification processes, through which adherence to values and positions may fail or be achieved. In the analysis of interviews with university students across Turkey, we draw on Fisher’s narrative paradigm to focus on how our participants carry out assessments o…
Social Media Debate and Criticisms in the Postdisaster Context
The causal attribution of extreme events poses a communicative challenge in connecting global climate change and local vulnerabilities. Alongside improved insights into climate models and sensitivities, enhanced understanding is needed of the social and discursive dynamics that shape the attribution of responsibility in extreme events and disasters. This article examines how responsibilities are attributed in the public debate on the 2017 Pedrógã…
The future beyond Fridays
Fridays for Future, founded by young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, quickly became a transnational movement through its intense use of digital media. This article aims to understand the collective’s formation in Brazil, given the very different discourse production conditions vis-à-vis the Global North. In Study 1, employing content analysis, we identify the quantitative trends in the networked mediation of student climate strikes, demonstratin…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (7 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Discourse analysis (3 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Mainstream (3 works)