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Turkey's failed coup as an 'ongoing media event' and the formation of public affect

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Media and Visual Arts
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Sociology
dc.contributor.kuauthorBulut, Ergin
dc.contributor.kuauthorCan, Başak Bulut
dc.contributor.kuprofileFaculty Member
dc.contributor.kuprofileFaculty Member
dc.contributor.otherDepartment of Media and Visual Arts
dc.contributor.otherDepartment of Sociology
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Social Sciences and Humanities
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Social Sciences and Humanities
dc.contributor.yokid219279
dc.contributor.yokid219278
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T23:13:00Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractFollowing the coup attempt in Turkey, former Gulenists made appearances on various television channels and disclosed intimate and spectacular information regarding their past activities. We ask: what is the political work of these televised disclosures? In answering this question, we situate the coup within the media event literature and examine the intimate work of these televised disclosures performed as part of a media event. The disclosures we examine were extremely spectacular statements that worked to reconstruct a highly divided and polarized society through an intimate language. Consequently, these television performances had two functions: ideological and affective. First, these disclosures and television shows chose to foreground sensation and therefore mystified the illegal networks that historically prepared the coup. Second, using a language of regret and apology, these disclosures aimed to teach the audience how to be purified and good citizens through a mediated, pedagogical relationship. Within the vulnerable context of a hegemonic crisis, these disclosures intended to form their own publics where citizens were invited to sympathize with those who made mistakes in the past, ultimately aiming to create national unity and reconciliation.
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dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.issue1
dc.description.openaccessNO
dc.description.volume41
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0163443718803262
dc.identifier.eissn1460-3675
dc.identifier.issn0163-4437
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85058984441
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443718803262
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/9911
dc.identifier.wos454134200010
dc.keywordsAffect
dc.keywordsConfession
dc.keywordsCrisis
dc.keywordsMedia event
dc.keywordsPerformance
dc.keywordsPublic
dc.keywordsSincerity
dc.keywordsTelevision
dc.keywordsTurkey
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltd
dc.sourceMedia Culture & Society
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectSociology
dc.titleTurkey's failed coup as an 'ongoing media event' and the formation of public affect
dc.typeJournal Article
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local.contributor.kuauthorBulut, Ergin
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