Turkey’s communicative authoritarianism

The majority of current political communication studies focus on discursive dimensions of communications and disregard how communications partake in the governing of populations through economic, material and institutional practices. By focusing on Turkey’s case, here I move beyond this approach and examine the role of communications in the development of neoliberal capital accumulation, authoritarian welfare politics, political repression and the production of popular support. The article provides an empirical analysis of policy developments and plans and the restructuring of ownership and control of networks between 2002 and 2016 in Erdoğan’s Turkey.

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Boundary disputes: New approaches to the interaction between sport and politics in the postwar years

Journal of Modern European History ◽

10.1177/16118944211014418 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 161189442110144

Author(s):

Harm Kaal

Keyword(s):

Political Communication ◽

Political Representation ◽

Communication Studies ◽

Boundary Disputes ◽

History Of ◽

Relevant Field ◽

Local Residents ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Welfare State

Although often framed as politics ultimate ‘other’, it is hard to ignore that sport and the political are intimately connected. Historians, however, have up until now hardly reflected on the nature of this connection in the postwar years, on how the politicisation of sport has actually taken shape, and how actors and institutions have delineated, navigated, and crossed the boundaries between the two. This article tackles these questions through an analysis of three vectors of politicisation: political communication, struggles over the use of space, and governance and policy making. Based on a discussion of recent work at the intersection of political history, sport history, political science, geography, and communication studies, the article unearths the relationship between sport and personalised modes of political representation, explores the role of sport spaces as sites of community building and conflict, and the instrumentalisation of sport in policy schemes of the welfare state. It shows how policy schemes and governance arrangements drew sport into the orbit of the state; maps the various actors and institutions at the intersection of sport and politics, ranging from local residents’ groups to international non-governmental organisations; and highlights the gendered, exclusionary nature of new, popular forms of political communication through sport. All in all, the article makes the case for sport as a highly relevant field to engage with for those who are interested in the postwar history of political power, representation, communication, and governance.

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Metaphors for comic relief: Satirists’ self-reported contribution to democratic dialogue in difficult times

Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies ◽

10.1386/cjcs_00006_1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 249-264

Author(s):

Mario Álvarez Fuentes

Keyword(s):

Political Communication ◽

Political Institutions ◽

The Political ◽

Communication Studies ◽

Political Satire ◽

Normative Approach ◽

Ethnographic Approach ◽

Democratic Dialogue ◽

Difficult Times

This article aims at enriching the debate on the role of political satire when politics becomes troublesome. It takes an ethnographic approach to the production of the TV programme Polònia, which has been broadcast weekly in Catalonia since 2006 and consists of satirical impersonations of politicians. The first section tries to understand the role programme-makers attribute to Polònia within Catalan politics. Participants regard themselves as a central part of the political institutions in Catalonia and recognize a commitment with democratic values. This contests the normative approach in political communication studies which does not assign a role for entertainment in fostering democratic dialogue. The second section has to do with the main characteristic of Polònia’s language: experiential metaphors. Politics is ‘re-described’ in terms of everyday situations by transposing politicians into situations easily recognisable for the audience. It is concluded that Polònia uses a verisimilitude-oriented language rather than the veracity-oriented language of journalism.

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The Citizen Marketer

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190658052.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Joel Penney

Keyword(s):

Political Communication ◽

Political Activity ◽

Democratic Participation ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

The Public ◽

Media Messages ◽

Marginalized Groups ◽

And Control ◽

New Framework

From hashtag activism to the flood of political memes on social media, the landscape of political communication is being transformed by the grassroots circulation of opinion on digital platforms and beyond. The Citizen Marketer offers a new framework for understanding this phenomenon by exploring how everyday people assist in the promotion of political media messages in hopes of persuading their peers and shaping the public mind. The analysis is grounded in the firsthand testimony of citizens who have engaged in popular activities such as changing their profile picture to a protest symbol, tweeting links to news articles to raise strategic awareness about select issues, and publicly displaying everything from slogan T-shirts to viral videos that promote a favored electoral candidate. In contrast to the “slacktivism” critique often leveled at these media-based forms of political activity, The Citizen Marketer argues that they enable citizens to take on the potentially influential role of viral political marketers as they participate in the networked dissemination of ideas. Furthermore, the discussion critically examines the promises of the citizen marketer approach for expanding democratic participation and elevating the voices of marginalized groups, as well as the risks that these practices pose for polarization and partisanship, the trivialization of issues, and control and manipulation by elites. By investigating the logics and motivations behind the citizen marketer, as well as how this approach has developed in response to key social, cultural, and technological changes, the book charts the evolution of activism in the age of mediatized politics, promotional culture, and viral circulation.

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Technocracy Revisited: the Polish Security Dispositif and Ukrainian Migration to Poland

Journal of Contemporary European Research ◽

10.30950/jcer.v17i2.1215 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Marta Jaroszewicz ◽

Jan Grzymski

Keyword(s):

Speech Acts ◽

The European Union ◽

Local Identity ◽

Politics Of Memory ◽

Institutional Practices ◽

Security Practices ◽

Political Agents ◽

And Control ◽

Control State

The article investigates the reaction of the Polish technocratic security dispositif to the arrival of Ukrainian migrants in Poland between 2014-2020. It contributes to the studies on securitisation and on technocracy by proposing to re-conceptualise research on the security practices towards migration, drawing upon the notions of a security dispositif and regime of practices. It is exemplified by migration from Ukraine to Poland. The paper distinguishes three regimes of practices within Polish migration control: state ignorance, technocratic governance and neighbourhood. Contrary to most securitisation practices on migration to the European Union from the South, there have been very few populist ‘speech acts’ by Polish political agents that would have positioned the migration from Ukraine as an existential threat. The article concludes that the Polish security dispositif mainly mobilised state ignorance as a resource in governing migration, since neither new legal nor institutional practices were adopted to address the increased arrivals of Ukrainians. Simultaneously, this was accompanied by an internal logic of technocratic governance and its ubiquitous strategic tendency to widen surveillance and control capacities towards foreigners. The article also highlights the role of local identity and the politics of memory in governing Ukrainian migration to Poland.

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Book title: An Introduction to Political Communication

ISSUE1 - Journal of Peace, Development & Communication ◽

10.36968/jpdc.0301.05 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 03 (01) ◽

Author(s):

Brian McNair

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Political Communication ◽

The Political ◽

Political Actors ◽

Political Messages ◽

Book Title ◽

Transmission Of Information ◽

Basic Ideas ◽

And Control

Dr Brian McNair, an Australian author and academician, has explained the basic ideas concerning political communication in his book “An Introduction to Political Communication”, which discusses in detail the transmission of information in society for the purpose of politics and control. The author, Brian McNair, is a journalism professor from Queensland University, Australia. The book discusses the role of communication in politics, and how citizens respond to political messages transmitted to them through media from political actors. The political actors are defined as individuals trying to influence decision making though different means.

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Morphogenesis of a New Human Herpes-Type Virus Isolate (Sasha Virus)

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100073404 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 31 ◽

pp. 592-593

Author(s):

R. F. Zeigel ◽

W. Munyon

Keyword(s):

Virus Isolate ◽

Calf Serum ◽

Uranyl Acetate ◽

Human Herpes ◽

Human Embryonic Lung ◽

Human Herpes Virus ◽

Intracytoplasmic Inclusions ◽

Hel Cells ◽

And Control

In continuing studies on the role of viruses in biochemical transformation, Dr. Munyon has succeeded in isolating a highly infectious human herpes virus. Fluids of buccal pustular lesions from Sasha Munyon (10 mo. old) uiere introduced into monolayer sheets of human embryonic lung (HEL) cell cultures propagated in Eagles’ medium containing 5% calf serum. After 18 hours the cells exhibited a dramatic C.P.E. (intranuclear vacuoles, peripheral patching of chromatin, intracytoplasmic inclusions). Control HEL cells failed to reflect similar changes. Infected and control HEL cells were scraped from plastic flasks at 18 hrs. of incubation and centrifuged at 1200 × g for 15 min. Resultant cell packs uiere fixed in Dalton's chrome osmium, and post-fixed in aqueous uranyl acetate. Figure 1 illustrates typical hexagonal herpes-type nucleocapsids within the intranuclear virogenic regions. The nucleocapsids are approximately 100 nm in diameter. Nuclear membrane “translocation” (budding) uias observed.

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