[Commlist] CFP - Transnational consumption and international distribution of Turkish TV series

The International Communication Gazette --Special Issue Call for 
Papers—Abstract Submission Deadline: 12/15/2021
 *Transnational consumption and international distribution of Turkish 
TV series in the new global televisual landscape*
 Yeşim Kaptan, Kent State University & Ece Algan, California State 
University, San Bernardino, Guest Editors
 Deadline for Full Papers: 06/30/2022
Expected Date of Publication: Early 2023s
 The rise of internet access and widespread use of television streaming 
technologies and social media have further accelerated global television 
consumption which had gained an important momentum cultivating 
transnational tastes and encouraging multidirectional flows since the 
satellite era. Coupled with a high demand for television content, these 
developments have enabled Turkish television, which is a lesser-known 
newly-emerged national media industry, to become a major global player 
by expanding its regional reach beyond the Middle East, Balkans and its 
diaspora in Europe. Since the mid 2000s, the Turkish television industry 
has been among the top five exporters of global TV content (Kaptan and 
Algan 2020). Although a number of important studies have captured the 
moment of Turkish TV series’ big breakthrough (Alankus and Yanardagoglu 
2016, Algan and Kaptan 2021, Al-Ghazzi and Kraidy 2013, Berg 2020, 
Rakhmani 2020, Salamandra 2012), the unexpected global popularity of 
Turkish media products across diverse populations and regions 
necessitates revisiting audience experiences of emerging transnational 
content through a new lens that will investigate global and local 
distribution networks and reception of Turkish TV series and move beyond 
previous linear theories and models of global television studies.
In this special issue, we welcome proposals that explore international 
distribution, transnational consumption and appeal of Turkish TV series 
(dizi) in the context of cross- cultural television. We are particularly 
interested in case studies that treat Turkish TV series as transnational 
texts, consider the dislocations and discontinuities of media 
consumption across various cultural contexts, problematize current 
dynamics of reception between the local, national and global beyond the 
North-South dichotomy, and analyze audience engagement with Turkish TV 
productions.
We invite contributions from a variety of methodological approaches and 
theoretical perspectives that explore a range of topics including, but 
not limited to:
 •   Transnational and translocal audiences of Turkish TV series; 
cultural affinity, reflexivity, and alternative/multiple modernities
•   The impact of digitalization of TV, online streaming and convergence 
on audience experiences
•   Online and offline fan communities, fandom, translations and fan labor
•   Dynamics of television markets and their implications on global 
audiences of Turkish TV series in various regions
•   Cross-border flows, multiple proximities, mediation and audience 
engagement
•   Trans/national television distributors’ assessment of their 
audiences’ demands and responses to Turkish TV series
•   Audience experiences of race, class, ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ+, 
religious, national and global identities
•   The role of public, cable and/or satellite broadcasting regulations 
and censorship on the consumption of Turkish TV series
•   Alternative ways of consuming Turkish TV series and piracy
•   Public controversies and reactions around Turkish TV series
•   Online audience interactions and digital ethnographies
 Please send a 400-word abstract and 150-word bio to the guest editors, 
Yeşim Kaptan  ((ykaptan /at/ kent.edu)) and Ece Algan ((ealgan /at/ csusb.edu)) until 
December 15, 2021. NO article processing charges (APCs) will be required.

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