The After-Life of Eurovision 2003: Turkish and European Social Imaginaries and Ephemeral Communicative Space

Christensen, Miyase; Christensen, Christian

doi:10.1080/15405700802197834

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“…These columnists exercise a degree of autonomy, independence, and influence and contribute to an environment of public debate. As argued elsewhere, news discourses, particularly those generated in newspaper columns, contribute to public discourse on crucial issues, and there is a close relationship between journalistic texts and social imaginary (Christensen and Christensen, 2008). The problems, however, as discussed in this article, go beyond the everyday communicative practice engendered within the media space.…”

Section: Public Sphere At the Juncture Of The National And The Post-nmentioning

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Notes on the public sphere on a national and post-national axis

Christensen

2010

Global Media and Communication

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Since Turkey became a candidate for the European Union in 1999, democratic rights and freedom of expression have been key issues in discourses surrounding EU—Turkey relations. Discussions on these questions often centre on state censorship and legislative constraints. The role of the media themselves, however, and the deeply-ingrained elements and historically-contingent norms and practices within public culture that shape the public sphere, have received a significantly lower level of attention. Despite recent legislative changes towards greater freedom of expression, major hurdles that limit democratic rights and freedoms persist in practice, as highlighted by the judicial trial (and the subsequent murder in January 2007) of the Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink. The police raid of Nokta magazine in 2007 is another case in point. The purpose of this article is to discuss current questions related with freedom of expression and tolerance of diversity in the Turkish media based on in-depth interviews with journalists and with the Dink and Nokta cases as examples; and to offer critical reflections on the public sphere in Turkey in its current state.

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Section: Public Sphere At the Juncture Of The National And The Post-nmentioning

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Notes on the public sphere on a national and post-national axis

Christensen

2010

Global Media and Communication

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“…Research on the ESC has studied the contest as an occasion for the strategic representation of the nation (Bolin, 2006;Baker, 2008;Mitrović, 2010;Jordan, 2011) and analysed understandings concerning nationality in the audience and media reception of the contest (Pajala, 2006;Christensen and Christensen, 2008;Coleman, 2008;Georgiou, 2008). This has made an important contribution to the study of the cultural politics of contemporary Europe.…”

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Performing the 'New' Europe

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“…The concept of "ephemeral communicative space" (Christensen and Christensen 2008) was developed to explain how certain zones emerge as extensions of preexisting communicative spaces within which debates take place in more limited time frames (such as short-term discussions of national image and politics following major international sporting victories).…”

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The Arab Spring As Meta-Event and Communicative Spaces

Christensen

2013

Television & New Media

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The uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, immediately labeled "the Arab Spring," are best described as processes rather than outcomes. Despite being a common area of media focus due to decades-long geopolitics, the Arab Spring, as a mediatized meta-event, has led to the reemergence of the region as a discursive territory. The communicative spaces that opened up during and in the aftermath of the uprisings allowed for a multiplicity of topics to reenter public discourse across local, national, and transnational scales. In the process, seasoned debates such as religious sectarianism and democratic institutionalization gained magnitude. More specific debates such as Turkey's role as a model/antimodel added new discursive aspects to the multitopic ensemble. The purpose of this article is to reflect on the communicative and scalar dimensions in the mediation of the Arab Spring by way of taking the debates on Turkey as a case in point. a Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the town of Sidi Bouzid in protest against harassment he was experiencing from local authorities (he would later die as a result of the injuries sustained by his self-immolation). Bouazizi's act triggered a wave of protests in Tunisia, prompting the longtime ruler Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali to resign after twenty-three years in power. The protests then spread, first to Egypt, and then on to Libya, Syria, and Yemen,

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The After-Life of Eurovision 2003: Turkish and European Social Imaginaries and Ephemeral Communicative Space

Cited by 21 publications

References 17 publications

Notes on the public sphere on a national and post-national axis

Notes on the public sphere on a national and post-national axis

Performing the 'New' Europe

The Arab Spring As Meta-Event and Communicative Spaces

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