Counter-surveillance and alternative new media in Turkey

Ataman, Bora; Çoban, Barış

doi:10.4324/9780429243912-7

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“…This is essential to be considered for future studies in social media surveillance field. This article contributes to the growing body of literature on counter-surveillance tactics (Ataman & Çoban, 2018;Hermida & Hernández-Santaolalla, 2018).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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“We Will Either Find a Way, or Make One”: How Iranian Green Movement Online Activists Perceive and Respond to Repression

Honari

2018

Social Media + Society

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While studies on the effect of repression of online activism mainly focus on the capabilities of states in surveillances and filtering on the web, this article focuses on individuals' responses to repression. Using data gathered by in-depth interviews of online activists of the Iranian Green Movement-the pro-democracy movement which emerged after the disputed 2009 elections-this article attempts to shed light on online activism under repression. The article focuses on two questions: How do activists perceive repression? How do they respond to repression? The research distinguishes three dimensions of perceived repression which interactively influence activists' choices in their response to repression: the importance of the repression, the external assessment of this repression, and the internal assessment. Regarding the response to repression, five distinct strategies are identified (1) de-identification, (2) network reformation, (3) circumvention, (4) self-censoring, and (5) being inconspicuously active. The study has a number of important theoretical and empirical implications for future studies on repression and online activism under authoritarian contexts.

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“We Will Either Find a Way, or Make One”: How Iranian Green Movement Online Activists Perceive and Respond to Repression

Honari

2018

Social Media + Society

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“…In his analysis of Zimbabwean journalists' anti-surveillance attitudes, Allen Munoriyarwa (2021) has argued that encryption tools may be expensive and thus out of reach by newsrooms with limited resources. In Turkey, anti-surveillance practices of activist citizen journalists have been analyzed, pointing at these actors' amateurish-and thus limited-knowledge of the field (Ataman & Çoban, 2018). Two articles have focused on the situation in Slovakia.…”

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Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field

Salvo

2022

Sociology Compass

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Information security (infosec) has become a field of primary interest for journalism, especially in the wake of the 2013 Edward Snowden revelations about the ramifications of Internet mass surveillance. Following the increasing dangers posed by digital threats-and surveillance in particular-to the safety of journalists and their sources, newsrooms and reporters have shown an increased interest in technological solutions for improved protection of their work and sources. In particular, the adoption of strong encryption tools for communication purposes has become an urgent matter for journalists worldwide, becoming a niche of research in journalism studies as well. By reviewing the existing literature in the field, this article examines how journalism studies approach the use of encryption and information security tools for journalistic purposes. Based on research on the major journalism studies journals and other publications, the article offers an overview of the research advancements, highlighting current major trends and research areas.

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“…The existing literature argues that the Turkish media workers after the failed coup attempt suffer from an increasing autocracy in the media landscape leading to a lack of freedom in news-making (Akin, 2017) and to their self-censorship (Davis, 2020); furthermore, the mainstream media outlets of the country function as a means of propaganda for the demands of the ruling AK Party and its president within a frame of a state of surveillance (Topak, 2019) and little space is left to journalists to fight against the authoritarian Turkish government (Ataman & Çoban, 2018). Yesil and Sozeri (2017: 543-544) claim that the Turkish government has implemented an online surveillance system according to their logic of religion and conservatism 6 .…”

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“Otherness” and Self-Censorship in the Land of Coups: Greek Correspondents in Turkey Pre- and Post-Coup Attempt

Παππάς

2022

Journalism Practice

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Greek correspondents are a unique species among the other foreign correspondents based in Turkey, due to their nationality; they have a delicate role of 'otherness' since their home and host countries are neighbors with a long history of fragile relations. Set within the frame of the failed coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016, this research localizes the differences in the Greek correspondents' job before and after the failed coup attempt bearing their 'otherness'. Based on the collection of primary data through in-depth semistructured interviews with all the Greek correspondents in Turkey, the findings were conceptualized within the Actor Network Theory combined with the framework of Histoire Croisée. The results revealed that after the failed coup attempt their work has deteriorated by four major changes: encumbrance of their journalistic role due to their 'otherness', increase of self-censorship, more workload due to higher demand for stories and extinction of governmental and diplomatic sources. This research claims that the identity of the 'opponent otherness' is a key factor aggravating the practices of foreign correspondents in times of political crises; lastly, it is revealed that when democracy is backsliding, local and foreign journalism are becoming parallelly ill and present a causality effect.

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Counter-surveillance and alternative new media in Turkey

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“We Will Either Find a Way, or Make One”: How Iranian Green Movement Online Activists Perceive and Respond to Repression

“We Will Either Find a Way, or Make One”: How Iranian Green Movement Online Activists Perceive and Respond to Repression

Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field

“Otherness” and Self-Censorship in the Land of Coups: Greek Correspondents in Turkey Pre- and Post-Coup Attempt

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