Browsing by Author "Ersoy, Metin"

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Citation - Scopus: 20
Alternative Media and the Securitization of Climate Change in Turkey
(SAGE Publications Inc. claims@sagepub.com, 2018) Defne Günay; Emre Iseri; Meti̇n Ersoy; Ersoy, Metin; Günay, Defne; İşeri, Emre
Studies on securitization dynamics in a growing number of sectors have been conducted including securitization of climate change. However a relatively understudied agent of securitization is media. In the proposed analysis we study Turkey’s media framing of climate change and whether and how it relates to the framings of security in general to acquire in-depth understanding of the role national media plays in securitization of climate change. Along with alternative online media outlet Bianet mainstream outlets (Sabah Sözcü Hürriyet Milliyet) are analyzed. This article addresses the following main research question: How do the mainstream and alternative media frame climate change in the Turkish context? In order to answer this question it adopts content analysis to analyze selected frames on climate change–related news utilized in Turkish media. Data have been collected and coded for three periods: first the period of September–December 2007 when climate change was high on the global agenda. Second January 1 to March 25 2015 which was the period before the Pew survey began. Third we have collected data for October 1 to November 4 2015 which is the period just before the United Nations Paris Agreement on Climate Change was signed. We find alternative media’s potential to serve as “alternative public sphere” by voicing the unspoken in public debate on climate change. © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Framing environmental debates over nuclear energy in Turkey's polarized media system
(Routledge, 2021) Meti̇n Ersoy; Emre Iseri; Ersoy, Metin; İşeri, Emre
‘The age of sustainable development’ has been characterized by an on-going debate over how to define development and which alternative energy resources to rely upon. It is high time to rethink the news media's role in this debate due to transformations in journalism particularly the role of the media in harnessing the sustainable energy transition. Accordingly this paper examines the role of the news media in environmental debates over Turkey's nuclear program within the country's polarized media system. Adopting a content analysis method the paper illuminates how selected media outlets (three mainstream and one online alternative) have framed and disseminated debates over Turkey's nuclear program. The findings reveal that the media system matters in public debates on energy but also that the alternative media have the potential to contribute to societal debates on issues–even within a polarized media setting–by voicing unspoken ideas. © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Framing the Syrian Operations: Populism in Foreign Policy and the Polarized News Media of Turkey
(USC ANNENBERG PRESS, 2021) Emre Iseri; Metin Ersoy; Ersoy, Metin; Iseri, Emre
How do news media outlets react to an international crisis during a resurgence of populism at home? Led by President Erdogan's AK Party Turkey's military operations toward Syria provide fertile ground to examine how an increasingly polarized media industry has used populist framing to report on the conflict. Adopting a framing analysis method this article analyses 2166 examples of news coverage of the conflict by 3 mainstream national online news outlets with printed versions affiliated with certain political parties or sociopolitical camps-namely the pro-government Sabah the moderate/the pro-government Hurriyet and the opposition/ Kemalist Sozcu-as well as one alternative media outlet Bianet. The findings reveal that the creation of a sense of crisis over Syria has precipitated a rally-round-the-flag effect. This prompted the ruling AK Party's populist discourses to dominate the public sphere through the mainstream media including opposition outlets with detrimental implications for the state of democracy. It will likely serve as a baseline to make cross-country comparisons on the interplay among the media landscape international crises and authoritarian governments at a time of resurgent populism.
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Citation - Scopus: 19
Media Framing of Climate Change Action in Carbon Locked-in Developing Countries: Adaptation or Mitigation?
(Routledge, 2021) Defne Günay; Emre Iseri; Meti̇n Ersoy; Adeola Abdullateef Elega; Ersoy, Metin; Gunay, Defne; Iseri, Emre; Elega, Adeola Abdulateef
As the public draws most of its information on scientific issues from the media studies of media coverage of climate change have proliferated. Here we analyze whether newspapers in developing countries frame climate action as an adaptation or mitigation issue. Mitigation refers to activities to reduce or prevent carbon emissions whereas adaptation refers to activities to adjust economic and social systems to the effects of climate change. To this end we conduct a comparative quantitative analysis of climate change news framing in newspapers from two carbon locked-in developing countries: Nigeria and Turkey. Our first research question is whether newspapers in the two countries frame climate change as a mitigation or adaptation issue. Our second research question is whether there is a relationship between the use of foreign sources and the use of a mitigation frame. We find more adaptation framing in Nigerian newspapers whereas adaptation and mitigation frames are more evenly seen in Turkish newspapers. We also find that the use of foreign sources in news with a climate action frame is negatively correlated with the use of an adaptation frame in our sample. Our findings improve understanding of the factors shaping climate change communication in developing countries. © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Mediated public diplomacy and peace journalism: International public news agencies on the Syrian crisis
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2024) Meti̇n Ersoy; Emre Iseri; Ersoy, Metin; İşeri, Emre
As the liberal international order has been falling the heteropolar order coupled with politics of uncertainty has been rising. In this context illiberal regimes of status-seeking powers have realized the value of public diplomacy to promulgate their versions of the “reality.” Those illiberal regimes’ adoption of public diplomacy tools (incl. international public news agencies) has generated discussions on theoretical and practical approaches to the field at the intersection of political science/international relations media and communication studies. Against this backdrop this paper aims to contribute to the emerging literature on public diplomacy of non-Western illiberal democracies. With the assumption that those regimes' illiberal democratic characteristics will be reflected in their public agencies' coverage styles (e.g. monologic conflictive and unbalanced) the article raises the following question: How do illiberal democracies utilize international public agencies as public diplomacy channels? To answer this question it compares framing strategies (peace/war journalism) of the Russian TASS and the Turkish Anatolian Agency public agencies during the Syrian crisis. The findings reveal that those illiberal regimes’ public agencies have reported the crisis as a state-centric monolog in conflict with the West by distrupting the global public good (i.e. peace). © 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Populist and Anti-Populist Discourses in Nigerian and Turkish Presidential Elections: Populist Zeitgeist Debate Revisited
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2025) Emre Iseri; Muhammad Auwal Ahmad; Ezgi Su Mete; Metin Ersoy; Ersoy, Metin; Iseri, Emre; Ahmad, Muhammad Auwal; Mete, Ezgi Su
Today many scholars question whether populism has indeed become the zeitgeist detriment of democracies around the globe. This study compares populist discourses in Nigeria and T & uuml,rkiye during their 2023 presidential campaigns. Utilizing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) it explores how did the victorious presidential candidates employ digital media platforms to disseminate their populist and anti-populist messages? This research reveals that Bola Tinubu's anti-populist discourses mitigated polarization and led to a smooth electoral success in Nigeria. In sharp contrast Recep Tayyip Erdo & gbreve,an's populist discourses exacerbated political divisions in T & uuml,rkiye. It concludes that populism neither universally dominates global trends nor guarantees electoral victory even in polarized Eurasian-African context. Nonetheless whether labeled as populist or anti-populist during electoral campaigns such characterizations do not necessarily translate into corresponding policy actions once in office.