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Cellular telephones, melancholia and technology in Turkey

Türkiye’de cep telefonu, melankoli ve teknoloji

Burçe ÇELİK
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56–74
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In light of media research and ethnographic fieldwork, this article focuses on the cell phone, which at the most Utopian level, is imagined to deterritorialize the existing social structure where the historical and collective melancholia determines the ways bodies act, feel and move by inserting new means of instituting and experiencing new subjectivities - subject stories.

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Objective & Hypothesis:This article seeks to analyze why and how the cell phone has become so popular and even an object of collective attachment/addiction in contemporary Turkey by attending to the collective and historical melancholia and cultural practices of technoscape.
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Key Findings & Data:In Turkey the cell phone is idealized as an agent of change and is even fictionalized as a technology that would create new possibilities of experiencing the social structure by altering the melancholic conditions of Turkish bodies.
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Conclusion & Impact:In light of media research and ethnographic fieldwork, this article focuses on the cell phone, which at the most Utopian level, is imagined to deterritorialize the existing social structure where the historical and collective melancholia determines the ways bodies act, feel and move by inserting new means of instituting and experiencing new subjectivities - subject stories.
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📍Scope:Comprehensive Sample
⚙️Variables:Türkiye · Turkey

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze why and how the cell phone has become so popular and even an object of collective attachment/addiction in contemporary Turkey by attending to the collective and historical melancholia and cultural practices of technoscape. In Turkey the cell phone is idealized as an agent of change and is even fictionalized as a technology that would create new possibilities of experiencing the social structure by altering the melancholic conditions of Turkish bodies. In light of media research and ethnographic fieldwork, this article focuses on the cell phone, which at the most Utopian level, is imagined to deterritorialize the existing social structure where the historical and collective melancholia determines the ways bodies act, feel and move by inserting new means of instituting and experiencing new subjectivities - subject stories.

Özet

Özet: Bu makale, cep telefonunun bugünün Türkiyesi'nde neden ve nasıl popülarite kazandığı ve hatta bir kolektif bağımlılık nesnesi haline geldiği sorusuna cevap üretme çabasındadır. Türkiye'de cep telefonu değişimin aracı olarak idealize edilmiş ve imgeler dünyasında melankoli ile örülmüş toplumsal yapının farklı deneyimi için yeni imkânlar yaratabilecek bir teknoloji olarak kurgulanabilmiştir. Yürütmüş olduğum etnog-rafik çalışmalar ve medya araştırmaları ışığında, bu çalışma, en aşırı hayalî uçta, bireylerin ve kolektiflerin hareketini, davranışını ve hissiyatını belirleyen tarihsel ve kolektif melankolinin içsel olduğu mevcut toplumsal yapıyı ürettiği 'yeni' kendilik hikayeleriyle sarsabilecek bir şeymiş gibi hayal edilen cep telefonu teknolojisinin analizini sunar.

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ÇELİK, B. (2010). Cellular telephones, melancholia and technology in Turkey. Toplum ve Bilim, Sayı: 117, 56–74. https://ajindex.com/articles/366945

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