Television in Turkey

Yesim Kaptan is Assistant Professor at the School of Communication Studies at Kent State University, USA. She was a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research focuses on transnational media, audience reception, global popular culture and consumerism. Ece Algan is Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Media & Creative Industries at Loughborough University London, UK. Her research focuses on global communication, local radio and television, ethnic broadcasting, media activism, new media use, media ethnography and youth cultures.

1. Introduction: Turkey's National Television in Transnational Context.- 2. The Regulation of Television Content in Turkey: From State Monopoly to Commercial Broadcasting and Beyond.- 3. Televised Journalistic Documentaries of the 1990s: The form, content, and historical juncture.- 4. Revisiting the Unplugged Margins: Rural Television Audiences and Mediatization.- 5. Debating Women's Issues on Turkish Television: Exploring the Role of Political  Power in Women's Talk.- 6. Getting married on TV: Women's Fragile Trust in the Marriage Show.- 7. Representing Female Detectives in Turkish Police Procedurals.- 8. Continuities and Changes in the Transnational Broadcasts of TRT.- 9. Mediatisation and hyper-commodification of sports in the post-1980 Turkey.- 10. From TRT to Netflix: Implications of Convergence for Television Dramas in Turkey.- 11. Mediatised culturalisation through television: Second-generation Alevi Kurds in London.- 12. Turkish Drama Serials and Arab Audiences: Why Turkish Serials are Successful in the Arab World.- 13. Consuming Halal Turkish Television in Indonesia: A Closer Look at the Social Responses towards Muhtesem Yüzyil.

"The subject is of immense interest and value to today's academic and public discussion of media, transnationalism, and localism. ... Television in Turkey provides a diverse but connected account of a complex subject. It draws its analyses from various contents ... . it will be of immense value to students, researchers and academics, and journalists interested in Turkish television studies, its transnational and global expansion, and those interested in media and gender studies in general." (Mohammed Alrmizan, Contemporary Review of the Middle East, Vol. 8 (3), September, 2021)

"This much-needed collection fills a void in television studies and is an important addition to the analysis of transnationalisation. The chronicling of the complex interplay of local, transnational, and political is perfectly reflected in the title Television in Turkey:Local Production, Transnational Expansion, and Political Aspirations." (Nazan Haydari, Critical Studies in Television, Vol. 16, (2), 2021)