Discourses and Practices of Othering

Banu Baybars is Professor in the Faculty of Communication at Kadir Has University, Turkey. She is the author of Freedom’s Razored Edge: Terrorism and Media Controls in the United States and Turkey, the co-editor of If It Was Not for Terrorism: Crisis, Compromise, and Elite Discourse in the Age of “War on Terror”, and the editor of New Challenges, New Opportunities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Reputation Management and Non-State Actors in Conflicts: Conspiracies, Myths and Practices.Sarphan Uzunoğlu, PhD, is the academic coordinator and chief editor of NewsLabTurkey.org and publications coordinator of InsideTurkey.news. Uzunoğlu is also a part-time Lecturer at Ankara Bilim University and Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.Mine Bertan Yılmaz is a Research Assistant in the Faculty of Communication at Kadir Has University, Turkey. She is also a PhD candidate in Media and Communication Studies at Galatasaray University, Turkey.