Ece Algan's Research

I have two main research interests that inform each other. First is the role that emergent media play in the construction of youth culture and negotiation of gender identities in Turkey. Second, I study the impact of the commercialized and privatized mediascape that emerged in the Middle East as a result of global economic forces, transnational institutions and corporations on the negotiation of national/cultural identities and the construction of the public sphere.

My recent publications are:

Algan, E. (2010, In press). The gendered politics of care: Redefining marriage and gender roles

on Turkish reality television. In Baruh, L. & Park, J. H. (eds.), Reel Politics. Cambridge

University Press.

Algan, E. (2009). Kanunlar, Cezalar ve Ağalar: Şanlıurfa’da Yerel Medya [Laws, fines

and agas: Local media in Sanliurfa]. In N. Turkoglu & S. Alayoglu (eds.), Karaelmas

2009: Medya ve Kultur (pp. 57-65). Istanbul: Urban.

Algan, E. (2009). “There is no permission to love in our Urfa”: Media, youth identities and social

change in Southeast Turkey. In T. Tufte & F. Enghel (eds.), Teens Changing the World:

Youth, Communication and Social Change. Sweden: International Clearinghouse at NORDICOM.

Algan, E. (2009). What of ethnography? Television and New Media 10(1): 7-9.

Algan, E. (2006). Medya okuryazarligi alaninda teorik ve pratik yaklasimlar [Theoretical and

practical approaches in Media Literacy]. In N. Turkoglu (ed.), Medya Okuryazarligi

[Media Literacy Conference Proceedings] (pp. 38-44). Istanbul, Turkey: Marmara

Universitesi Ilestisim Fakultesi Yayini.

Algan, E. (2005). The role of Turkish local radio in the construction of a youth community. The

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 3(2): 75-92 [lead

article].

Algan, E. (2004). Development of local radio in Southeast Turkey. Journal of Radio

               Studies 11(2): 254-267.

Algan, E. (2003). Privatization of media in Turkey and the question of media hegemony in the era
               of globalization. In L. Artz and Y. R. Kamalipour (Eds.), The globalization of corporate
               media hegemony (pp. 169-192). New York: SUNY Press.

Algan, E. (2003). The problem of textuality in ethnographic audience research: Lessons learned in
               Southeast Turkey. In M. Kraidy & P. Murphy (Eds.), Global Media Studies: Ethnographic
                 perspectives (pp. 23-39). New York: Routledge.