Multimodal online dissident culture in Instagram: A critique of the Turkish economy

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI:10.1177/13678779231213991

Balca Arda, Özen Baş

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Abstract

Ever-present mass surveillance has blocked the flourishing of a traditional dissident culture in Turkey. Focusing on popular ‘just for fun’ Instagram accounts during the lira's freefall that began in the autumn of 2021, this study seeks to identify the creative strategies for digital social resistance embedded in multimodal content sharing of posts, which are composed of visuals, text, and sound. For this, we employed a multimodal-type analysis of Instagram posts regarding Turkey's economic crisis, followed by an interpretative content analysis aiming to (1) identify, categorize, and compile a typology of the main countersurveillance strategies inherent in multimodal posts, such as memes, edited videos, and animations, Photoshop-crafted still images, and (2) explore the contextual traits of the connected dissident culture. We discuss how these multimodal-type posts support connected dissident group formation while maintaining confidentiality while criticizing governmental conduct of economic policy making in Turkey.

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Instagram 中的多模式在线持不同政见者文化：土耳其经济批判

无处不在的大规模监控阻碍了土耳其传统异见文化的蓬勃发展。本研究以 2021 年秋季里拉自由落体期间流行的 "只是为了好玩 "的 Instagram 账户为重点，试图找出由视觉、文字和声音组成的多模态内容分享帖子中蕴含的数字社会抵抗的创造性策略。为此，我们对 Instagram 上有关土耳其经济危机的帖子进行了多模态类型分析，随后进行了解释性内容分析，旨在：（1）识别、归类和汇编多模态帖子中固有的主要反监控策略类型，如备忘录、编辑视频和动画、Photoshop 制作的静态图片；（2）探索相关异见文化的背景特征。我们将讨论这些多模态类型的帖子是如何在保持机密性的同时，在批评土耳其政府制定经济政策的行为时，支持连通的持不同政见者群体的形成的。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.