[ecrea] New book: Media in New Turkey

*Media in New Turkey***

*The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State***

/Bilge Yesil/

"The rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey since the 
early 2000s and its overseeing of a growing economy and a forceful 
foreign policy have been one of the key forces shaping the Middle East 
in a turbulent decade bookended by the September 11 attacks and the Arab 
Uprisings. In /Media in New Turkey/, Yesil explores and explains the 
growth of Turkish media, its travails with the government, and its 
forays in the Middle East and Central Asia. Deftly eschewing media 
determinism, Yesil approaches Turkish media as a site of struggle 
between various strands of democratic and authoritarian politics, 
Islamism and neoliberalism. Both in its approach to the topic and in the 
important insights it provides, this book will be an original and 
lasting contribution to the literature on media, culture, and politics 
within and beyond the Middle East."--Marwan Kraidy, author of /Reality 
Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life/

    "It is a real treat to read a work on the Middle Eastern media that 
shows the sociological sophistication employed by Bilge Yesil. This book 
is packed with stimulating ideas on Turkish media, state, and society 
that cut through the familiar mind-numbing clichés. Not only categories 
that have served Middle East experts for so long, but also the myth of 
Turkish Model dissolves under her scrutiny. This is a timely book and a 
must-read for students of international communications and any students 
interested in the contemporary Middle East."--Gholam Khiabany, author of 
/Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity/

    In /Media in New Turkey/, Bilge Yesil unlocks the complexities 
surrounding and penetrating today's Turkish media. Yesil focuses on a 
convergence of global and domestic forces that range from the 1980 
military coup to globalization's inroads and the recent resurgence of 
political Islam. Her analysis foregrounds how these and other forces 
become intertwined, and she uses Turkey's media to unpack the 
ever-more-complex relationships.   Yesil confronts essential questions 
regarding: the role of the state and military in building the structures 
that shaped Turkey's media system; media adaptations to ever-shifting 
contours of political and economic power; how the far-flung economic 
interests of media conglomerates leave them vulnerable to state 
pressure; and the ways Turkey's politicized judiciary criminalizes 
certain speech.   Drawing on local knowledge and a wealth of Turkish 
sources, Yesil provides an engrossing look at the fault lines carved by 
authoritarianism, tradition, neoliberal reform, and globalization within 
Turkey's increasingly far-reaching media.

*Bilge Yesil* is an associate professor of media culture at City 
University of New York, College of Staten Island. She is the author of 
/Video Surveillance: Power and Privacy in Everyday Life/.

University of Illinois Press

The Geopolitics of Information

June 2016 216pp  9780252081651 PB £22.99 now only £18.39* when you quote 
CSL16MINT when you order

http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/media-in-new-turkey


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