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Bilge Yesil | Lead Researcher
The City University of New York
Bilge Yesil is an Associate Professor of Media Culture at CUNY College of Staten Island and Doctoral Faculty of Middle Eastern Studies, CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on global media systems, industries and cultures with emphasis on the Middle East and Turkey. She is the author of Video Surveillance: Power and Privacy in Everyday Life (2009) and Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State (2016), and has published extensively on Internet policy, online surveillance, press censorship and transnational television. Her current book project, tentatively titled, Talking back to the West: How Turkey Deploys Muslim Identity Politics to Challenge the International Order and Silence Its Critics examines Turkey’s various global media and communication projects undertaken by the ruling AKP government and its proxies.
Yesil, B. (2016). State Policy towards Online Communications and the Internet Regulatory Regime in Turkey. In Locating Emerging Media (Eds. Germaine Halegoua and Ben Aslinger), New York: Routledge, pp. 36-50.
Yesil, B. (2016). Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p081651
Yesil, B., Sozeri, E. K., Khazraee (2017). Turkey’s Internet Policy after the Coup Attempt: The Emergence of a Distributed Network of Online Suppression and Surveillance. University of Pennsylvania, Center for Global Communication Studies. https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=internetpolicyobservatory
Yesil, B. (2018). Authoritarian Turn or Continuity? Governance of Media through Capture and Discipline in the AKP Era. South European Society and Politics, Special Issue: Decoding the Repertoires of Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Turkey (Ed. Cemal Burak Tansel), 23 (2): 239-257.
Sinem Aydlini | Lead Researcher
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