Centering Community
Introspecting Mobile Media and Political Engagement: Bharatiya Janata Party’s Smartphone Campaign 2014
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Durgesh Tripathi, Namit Vikram Singh
This paper looks into the changing environment of political engagement through the use of digital technologies such as smartphones or feature phones in a country like India. The paper takes into account the case of 2014 general elections in particular of the national political party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and illuminates upon how mobile media has changed the scope for political engagement in India, the observations from the 2014 general elections of BJP in India and lastly, the nature of impact that was seen in India through BJP's mobile media campaign.
Representations of Refugee Children in the Film Misafir
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Elif Gizem Ugurlu
Migration isn’t simply an economic and political issue, the dimension of humanity is the most important one. Human beings have to leave their homeland throughout the history of mankind because of many reasons. Some left their country voluntarily while some migrations were indispensable. Children, old people, and the handicapped have always been the most negatively affected individuals in this process. Nearly half of the total refugees throughout the world are children under the age of 18. There are more than thirty thousand of children refugees currently in worldwide. The civil war in Syria, which started in 2011, has dragged thousands of people living in the area into migration. Turkey, located in a critical area between the Middle East and Europe, opened its gates to the people who had to leave their homeland. There are hundreds of Syrian children who are now living in Turkey with their families. The issue of migration has been used in cinema since the very beginning of the history of cinematography. The film named Misafir (2017, Andaç Haznedaroğlu), which is the topic of this study, is chosen with the purposeful sampling method. Misafir depicts the life of two children who had to come to Turkey from Syria because of the war. Problems and representation of refugee children are researched on the basis of the film and the role of cinema in transmitting these problems and creating the atmosphere of empathy is discussed.
The Contributions of Cinematographic Experience to Development Process of TV Series in Turkey - Arka Sokaklar
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Hakan Ugurlu
The media sector in Turkey has been revived in the 2000s, and the number of locally produced series has increased. The TV series named as Arka Sokaklar whose first episode was broadcasted in 2006, is still broadcasting in TV with its 523rd episode in its thirteenth year in 2019. The importance of Arka Sokaklar is that it was a witness to a big part of the era from the revival of media sector in Turkey to modern-day. It is also important that the watcher is still interested in this long lasting TV series. There were also differences between the previous episodes and the last episode in terms of the layout elements. In this study; in order to reveal the cinematographic development of Arka Sokaklar, the layout elements such as technical elements like prominent scales of shots, lenses, camera angles, the use of camera movements, image effects, and editing; and symbolic elements like sound, space and the use of depth of field are examined. Moreover, the dynamic rhythm of the series is discovered with examination of the comparison of the number of cuts and average of cuts; the number of sequence and sequence average between one episode from the first part and the last episode of Arka Sokaklar. In the lights of these data, it gives information about the contributions of the usage of developing technology and increasing cinematographic experience to developing era of series sector in Turkey.
