The Young Scholars on Turkey (YSOT) Program presents
"Social Media and Digital Public Sphere in Turkey"
Courtney Dorroll
University of Arizona
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Moderated by Kadir Ustun, Research Director, SETA Foundation at Washington D.C.
The role of social media during the Arab Revolutions is often debated with strong emphasis on the particular techniques and technologies available to dissidents and the general public. This presentation aims to focus on the relationship between the digital public sphere and “national identity” by examining the YouTube ban in Turkey. In a world of fundamentally transformed modes of communication patterns, what can such bans tell us about the limits of digital public sphere and the nation-state in Turkey and the Middle East?
Courtney Dorroll is currently Jacob K. Javits Fellow and PhD student in the department of Middle East and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. Dorroll focuses on modern Turkey and contemporary issues of the Turkish diasporic community in Germany as well as media and cultural policy issues in Turkey and Germany. After obtaining her MA, Dorroll spent a year as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, Germany.
The Young Scholars on Turkey Program (YSOT) is co-sponsored by SETA Foundation at Washington D.C. and the Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS) to provide young social scientists with a venue to present their policy relevant, original academic research in the nation's capital Washington D.C. For further information about the program, please visit www.setadc.org/ysot.