Prof.

Erkan Saka

Selected publications

Saka, E. (2022). Researching Political Trolls as Instruments of Political Conservatism in Turkey: A Historical Framework and Methodological Reflections on a Discourse Community. In The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology. Routledge.

Saka, E. (2021). Networks of Political Trolling in Turkey after the Consolidation of Power Under the Presidency (pp. 240-255). In Digital Hate. The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech. Indiana University Press. https://iupress.org/9780253059...

Saka, Erkan. 2020. “Cryptocurrency Usage in Turkey.” Anthropology News website, September 11, 2020. DOI: 10.14506/AN.1491 https://www.anthropology-news....

Saka, Erkan (2020). "Big data and gender-biased algorithms" In The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication.  New York: Wiley Blackwell

Saka, E. (2019). Social Media and Politics in Turkey. A Journey through Citizen Journalism, Political Trolling, and Fake News. Lanham: Lexington Books 

Saka, E. (2020). Turkey. In The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society (1 edition, Vol. 5, pp. 1792–1795). Retrieved from https://www.amazon.co.uk/SAGE-...

Furman, I., Saka, E., Yıldırım, S., & Elbeyi, E. (2019). The Gulf Information War| News Coverage of the Gulf Crisis in the Turkish Mediascape: Agendas, Frames, and Manufacturing Consent. International Journal Of Communication, 13, 28. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/8991

Saka, E. (Ed.). (2019). Türkiye İnternet Tarihi [Internet History of Turkey] (Yeni Medya Çalışmaları V). İstanbul: Alternatif Bilişim Derneği. https://ekitap.alternatifbilisim.org/ymc5_turkiye_internet_tarihi.html

Erkan Saka (2018): Social Media in Turkey as a Space for Political

Battles: AKTrolls and other Politically motivated trolling, Middle East Critique, DOI: 10.1080/19436149.2018.1439271

 Saka, E. (2018). The role of social media-based citizen journalism practices in the formation of contemporary protest movements. In Rethinking Ideology in the Age of Global Discontent. Bridging Divides (Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics, pp. 48-66). Routledge.

 Saka, E. (2017). Tracking digital emergences in the Aftermath of Gezi Park Protests. Research and Policy on Turkey, 1-14. doi:10.1080/23760818.2016.1272268

 Saka, E. (2015). Integrating New Media into Higher Education: A Turkish Case in Transmedia, Convergence and Gamification. In Digital Transformations in Turkey: Current Perspectives in Communication Studies. London: Lexington Books.

Saka, Erkan. 2008. “Yol vs Kapı: Journalistic Metaphors in Understanding EU-Turkey Relations” in Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context. eds.  Miyase Christensen and Nezih Erdogan. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 Saka, Erkan. 2008. Blogging as a research tool for ethnographic fieldwork. Online document. EASA Media Anthropology Network.

 Marcus George E. and Erkan Saka, 2006, “Assemblage“, Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 23(2/3): 101-109.