Globally connected, nationally restrained: Platform ambiguities and censorship in Turkey's drama production

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI:10.1177/13678779241254541

Ergin Bulut

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Abstract

About a decade ago, Turkey's television drama makers believed that streaming platforms would expand markets and create an uncensored space. Platforms did partly reform working conditions and enable drama creatives globally to produce quality shows. Yet creatives remain politically restrained because of platforms’ compliance with state regulations. Drawing on platform studies’ emphasis on how platforms have both restraining and enabling features, and extending this towards the contradictions around creative freedom and state control, I conceptualize drama creatives’ working experiences with national and global streaming platforms through platform ambiguity. Platform ambiguity allows a grasp of how platforms exert power over cultural producers by both enabling and restraining their creative work. Dewesternizing platforms and cultural production scholarship by highlighting how drama makers are not only creative but also geopolitical subjects dependent on the state, I show that their imaginaries and labour practices are always embedded in national contexts and shaped by regulatory structures.

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全球互联，国家克制：土耳其戏剧创作中的平台模糊性和审查制度

大约十年前，土耳其的电视剧制作者认为，流媒体平台将扩大市场，创造一个不受审查的空间。平台确实在一定程度上改革了工作条件，使全球的电视剧创作者都能制作出高质量的节目。然而，由于平台遵守国家法规，创作者在政治上仍然受到限制。平台研究强调平台既有约束性又有扶持性的特点，并将其延伸至创作自由与国家控制之间的矛盾，因此，我通过平台模糊性将电视剧创作者在国内和全球流媒体平台的工作经历概念化。通过平台的模糊性，可以了解平台是如何对文化生产者施加权力，既扶持又限制他们的创作。通过强调电视剧制作者不仅是创意主体，也是依附于国家的地缘政治主体，我对平台和文化生产的学术研究进行了去西方化，说明他们的想象和劳动实践总是嵌入国家背景并受监管结构的影响。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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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.