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Under western eyes: the media in the Gulf War
(Westview Press, 1995) Mutman, Mahmut; Brahm, G.; Driscoll, M.
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Departing from oneself cases of pre-rational mimesis before a spatial artwork
(Routledge, 2001) Sarıkartal, Ç.
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Mapping the present: interview with Gayatri Spivak
(Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, 2001) Mutman, M.; Yegenoglu, M.
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Benevolence
(Routledge, 2001) Mutman, Mahmut; Taylor, V. E.; Winquist, C. E.
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Horror of a different kind: dissonant voices of the new Turkish cinema
(Screen Enterprises, 2004) Suner, A.
The article presents information on the Turkish films. Popular Turkish film of this period is generally called "YeÅŸilÃ§am films." In 1966, Turkey was fourth in terms of world film production after the U.S., India and Egypt, making 229 films. Turkish film also became very popular in other Middle Eastern countries such as Egypt, Iran and Iraq, but after this period of successful commercial growth YeÅŸilÃ§am had, by the 1980s, practically died away. The prime reason for this downfall was the paradoxical situation that there had never been a truly powerful film industry in Turkey, despite the appearance of commercial vitality in popular films. As a result, whilst this commercial vitality during the 1960s and the 1970s made certain producers and stars rich, the foundations of the film industry remained vulnerable to fluctuations in the market. After a decade of severe recession, the mid 1990s bore witness to a remarkable revival of Turkish film in two distinct areas: a new popular films achieving considerable box-office success and what might be called an "art films" receiving critical acclaim and awards at national and international festivals.
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Information arts and information science: time to unite?
(Wiley, 2006) Karamuftuoglu, M.
This article explicates the common ground between two currently independent fields of Inquiry, namely information arts and information science, and suggests a frame-work that could unite them as a single field of study. The article defines and clarifies the meaning of information art and presents an axiological framework that could be used to judge the value of works of information art. The axiological framework is applied to examples of works of information art to demonstrate its use. The article argues that both Information arts and Information science could be studied under a common framework; namely, the domain-analytic or sociocognitive approach. It also is argued that the unification of the two fields could help enhance the meaning and scope of both information science and information arts and therefore be beneficial to both fields.
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Writing culture: postmodernism and ethnography
(Sage Publications, 2006) Mutman, M.
In a radical critical gesture, postmodern ethnography emphasizes the concepts of writing, narrative and dialogue against a merely scientific recording of facts. Interestingly, it does not question an outsider's accessibility to cultural space. Instead, ethnographic knowledge is grounded on a philosophical claim on the limited nature of native knowledge itself and is rearticulated by an inclusive gesture which involves the native voice in an authentic expression of diversity. This is a redemptive gesture which fails to interrogate the limit of knowledge and reproduces the conventional ethnographic demand that the other should speak up. Following a deconstructive reading, the article suggests that the ethnographic text should instead open itself to the limit and should remark the radical loss it implies as an ethical opening of and questioning by the other, because this is the limit where the name of 'Man' is inscribed as the name of the native informant. Copyright © 2006 SAGE Publications.
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Outside in: ‘accented cinema’ at large
(Routledge, 2006) Suner, A.
This paper aims to engage in a critical analysis of the concept of ‘accented cinema’ recently developed by Hamid Naficy to refer to the emergent genre of exilic/diasporic filmmaking. Naficy’s theorization of ‘accented cinema’ in particular and discussions around exilic/diasporic cinema in general will be challenged on the basis of the observation that the cinematic styles and thematic preoccupations associated with exilic/diasporic films consistently appear also in wideranging examples of contemporary ‘world’ cinema that are often classified under the rubric of ‘national cinemas’. To illustrate this observation, the paper provides a parallel reading of three recent films – A Time for Drunken Horses (1999) by Kurdish-Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi, Happy Together (1997) by Hong Kong director Wong kar-wai, and Distant (2002) by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan – whose directors cannot possibly be considered as ‘exilic/diasporic’ in a conventional sense. Yet, it will be argued, the styles and thematic concerns associated with exilic/diasporic cinema manifestly prevail in all three films discussed in this paper as well as in many other examples of contemporary ‘world’ cinema. Departing from this observation, the paper will open up the new genre of ‘accented cinema’ to further questioning and suggest that unless the mutual entanglement between exilic/diasporic filmmaking and national cinema is disclosed, the notion of ‘accented cinema’ will not be sufficiently able to realize its critical potential.
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On document relevance and lexical cohesion between query terms
(Elsevier, 2006) Vechtomova, O.; Karamuftuoglu, M.; Robertson, S. E.
Lexical cohesion is a property of text, achieved through lexical-semantic relations between words in text. Most information retrieval systems make use of lexical relations in text only to a limited extent. In this paper we empirically investigate whether the degree of lexical cohesion between the contexts of query terms' occurrences in a document is related to its relevance to the query. Lexical cohesion between distinct query terms in a document is estimated on the basis of the lexical-semantic relations (repetition, synonymy, hyponymy and sibling) that exist between there collocates - words that co-occur with them in the same windows of text. Experiments suggest significant differences between the lexical cohesion in relevant and non-relevant document sets exist. A document ranking method based on lexical cohesion shows some performance improvements. © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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An ethics of images: the distant
(Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, 2006-01-01) Mutman, M.
The rapid development of private media and especially television in Turkey in the last two decades has led to the emergence of a consumerist society of the spectacle. This essay offers a historical and cultural analysis of this new cultural hegemony and poses the question of the status of image in such a culture. In the first part, it offers an analysis and discussion of the status of the image in the new spectacular hegemony. In the second part, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s award-winning film, The Distant, is interpreted as transforming the sense of image in everyday life and offering a new ethics and politics of image developed on the margins of contemporary cultural hegemony.
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Need for a systemic theory of classification in information science
(Wiley, 2007) Karamuftuoglu, M.
In the article, the author aims to clarify some of the issues surrounding the discussion regarding the usefulness of a substantive classification theory in information science (IS) by means of a broad perspective. By utilizing a concrete example from the High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents (HARD) track of a Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), the author suggests that the "bag of words" approach to information retrieval (IR) and techniques such as relevance feedback have significant limitations in expressing and resolving complex user information needs. He argues that a comprehensive analysis of information needs involves explicating often-implicit assumptions made by the authors of scholarly documents, as well as everyday texts such as news articles. He also argues that progress in IS can be furthered by developing general theories that are applicable to multiple domains. The concrete example of application of the domain-analytic approach to subject analysis in IS to the aesthetic evaluation of works of information arts is used to support this argument.
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Hollywood in vernacular: translation and cross-cultural reception of American films in Turkey
(University of Exeter Press, 2007) Gürata, Ahmet; Maltby, R.; Stokes, M.; Allen, R. C.
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Difference, event, subject: Antonio Negri’s political theory as postmodern metaphysics
(Pluto Press, 2007) Mutman, Mahmut; Murphy, T. S.; Mustapha, A. -K.
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Up against the wall of the signifier: gegen die wand?
(Cambridge Scholar Press, 2008) Mutman, Mahmut; Christensen, M.; Erdoğan, Nezih
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A graph based approach to estimating lexical cohesion
(ACM, 2008) Gürkök, Hayrettin; Karamuftuoglu, Murat; Schaal, Markus
Traditionally, information retrieval systems rank documents according to the query terms they contain. However, even if a document may contain all query terms, this does not guarantee that it is relevant to the query. The query terms can occur together in the same document, but may have been used in different contexts, expressing separate topics. Lexical cohesion is a characteristic of natural language texts, which can be used to determine whether the query terms are used in the same context in the document. In this paper we make use of a graph-based approach to capture term contexts and estimate the level of lexical cohesion in a document. To evaluate the performance of our system, we compare it against two benchmark systems using three TREC document collections. Copyright 2008 ACM.
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Emotion - driven design
(2008) Şener, B.; Kurtgözü, Aren Emre
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Fetal culture: ultrasound imaging and the formation of the human
(Radical Philosophy Ltd., 2008) Mutman, M.; Ocak, E.
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The Nation‐Form
(Routledge, 2008-01) Mutman, M.
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Situating logic and information in information science
(2009) Karamuftuoglu, M.
Information Science (IS) is commonly said to study collection, classification, storage, retrieval, and use of information. However, there is no consensus on what information is. This article examines some of the formal models of information and informational processes, namely, Situation Theory and Shannon's Information Theory, in terms of their suitability for providing a useful framework for studying information in IS. It is argued that formal models of information are concerned with mainly ontological aspects of information, whereas IS, because of its evaluative role with respect to semantic content, needs an epistemological conception of information. It is argued from this perspective that concepts of epistemological/aesthetic/ethical information are plausible, and that information science needs to rise to the challenge of studying many different conceptions of information embedded in different contexts. This goal requires exploration of a wide variety of tools from philosophy and logic. © 2009 ASIS&T.
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Son adam ve "zincirlerinden boşanmış kamera"
(Kebikeç Yayınları, 2009) Treske, Andreas
Yönetmen Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau ve görüntü yönetmeni Karl Freund Son Adam (Der letzte Mann, 1924) filmi ile yirminci yüzyıl sinemasının tartışmasız en önemli biçimsel yeniliklerinden birini gerçekleştirmişlerdir. Filmde yer alan kırka yakın çekimde kamera sürekli hareket halindedir. Bu, bir anlamda, kameranın ifade olanaklarından yararlanarak sinema dilinin gelişimine katkıda bulunma girişimidir. Bu hareketli kamera tekniğine die entfesselte Kamera ya da “zincirlerinden boşanmış kamera” tekniği adı verilir. Hareketli mizansen ve uzun çekim ilkesine dayanan Murnau’nun görsel üslubu sinemayı gerçekliğe daha da yaklaştırır.