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Ozan Aşık

Ozan Aşık

@ozanmask.bsky.social

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Media sociologist/ethnographer. PhD @University of Cambridge. Research on digital journalism, platforms, social media use, disinformation and AI.

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Ozan Aşık @ozanmask.bsky.social · 3d

Conclusion: Platforms are both resisting pressure and setting new boundaries. The profession is transforming alongside this new economy, with the distinction between journalism and content creation becoming increasingly blurred in some areas.

Ozan Aşık @ozanmask.bsky.social · 3d

Finding (4): YouTube-based "micro-news centers" are eliminating division of labor: A small number of people are doing a lot of work; news quality and professional training mechanisms are weakening.

Ozan Aşık @ozanmask.bsky.social · 3d

Finding (3): Political pressure does not make YouTube a completely free space; self-censorship persists in various forms due to surveillance, the risk of lawsuits, and community pressure.

Ozan Aşık @ozanmask.bsky.social · 3d

Finding (2): Algorithmic opacity and the attention economy are undermining journalistic priorities; technically appealing, emotional/sensational content is being rewarded more; field journalism is eroding.

Ozan Aşık @ozanmask.bsky.social · 3d

Finding (1): YouTube is a partial refuge; it provides an escape from corporate/political pressure, but it is not a complete alternative to freedom. Algorithms determine visibility; this visibility reinforces existing inequalities.

Ozan Aşık @ozanmask.bsky.social · 3d

Our article with @canertuna.bsky.social titled "Journalist YouTubers: How Platformization Transforms Journalism in an Authoritarian System" has been published in the International Journal of Communication (open access): ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…

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European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Aug 25

In "Rethinking polysemy and negotiated reading of gender representation in television dramas", @ozanmask.bsky.social and Selinay Yılmazer Öcal explore how viewers engage with the diverse and conflicting meanings presented in television dramas. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Ozan Aşık @ozanmask.bsky.social · Aug 18

It presents four consecutive stages of negotiated reading: immersion, recognition of textual polysemy, resolution of the polysemic contradiction, and incorporation of polysemy.

Ozan Aşık @ozanmask.bsky.social · Aug 18

The paper conceptualizes negotiated reading as a process of critical reconciliation with the dominant ideological framework of the text rather than a process of simply rejecting/accepting some textual elements /3

Ozan Aşık @ozanmask.bsky.social · Aug 18

Given that all modes of reading in Stuart Hall's terms are more or less negotiated reading, the paper brings fresh insight into the relationship between textual polysemy and negotiated reading

Ozan Aşık @ozanmask.bsky.social · Aug 18

A new publication alert (with my thesis student, Selinay Yılmazer). The paper offers a combination of discourse analysis and audience research to explore the reception of ruler/warrior female characters in the Turkish drama "Resurrection: Ertuğrul".
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/RBYWT...

Ozan Aşık @ozanmask.bsky.social · Jan 26

BBCTurkish mentioned our paper with Selinay Yılmazer in its news article on the representation of women in the Ottoman-themed Turkish TV series.
here is the link to our article (in Turkish): dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ausbd...

Diriliş Ertuğrul Dizisinde Sunulan Osmanlı-Türk Kadını İmajı Üzerine Bir Alımlama Araştırması

Anadolu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi | Cilt: 21 Sayı: 3

dergipark.org.tr

Ozan Aşık @ozanmask.bsky.social · Nov 30

"It is time for science, not silence"

Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · Nov 30

“Science…is under attack. …

whether science should be political…is…moot…

Given…the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates.”

Princeton Prof Agustin Fuentes

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists as political advocates

Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

www.science.org