Depoliticizing Politics: Egypt’s Media Boycotts in the Turkish Media

By focusing on public discourse about the 2013 Egyptian boycott of Turkish television series, this paper analyzes the rarely discussed “media boycott” phenomenon in media studies. By examining the discursive chasms of Turkish Press and entertainment media through a critical discourse analysis (CDA), we investigate how the Turkish dailies take a position to determine the boycotting issue to the public, and enquire into the politics around the boycotting discourse which created an illusion that markets are not embedded in political relations, which can be considered separate domains under capitalism. The concept we called “depoliticizing the politics” denotes that Turkish agents framed the boycott as a solely economic crisis by dismissing the conflict’s political dimension. … celý popis

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Publikováno v

Communication, culture & critique Ročník 14; číslo 3; s. 405 - 421

Hlavní autoři

Kaptan, Yeşim, Kraidy, Marwan M

Typ dokumentu

Journal Article

Jazyk

English

Vydáno

Oxford University Press 01. 09. 2021

Témata

Egypt

Media Boycott

Media Discourse

Turkey

Turkish TV Series

Turkish TV Series

Media Boycott

Turkey

Media Discourse

Egypt

ISSN

1753-9129
1753-9137

DOI

10.1093/ccc/tcab002