Revolution, modernity and the Arab Spring

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buir.advisorÇınar, Alev
dc.contributor.authorCafnik Uludağ, Petra
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-25T12:42:42Z
dc.date.available2017-07-25T12:42:42Z
dc.date.copyright2017-07
dc.date.issued2017-07
dc.date.submitted2017-07-20
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.descriptionCataloged from PDF version of article.en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Ph.D.): Bilkent University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2017.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 164-197).en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation critically examines how linguistic and discursive practices in global media discourses devalorize the revolutionary implications of the so called Arab Spring. By using media framing analysis it approaches the global media’s construct of the Arab Spring as a revolutionary event in three steps. First, it analyzes framing and usage of the name Arab Spring, showing how the name itself implies two defining characteristics of the events: the Arabness and the Springness. Second, it focuses on the universal conception of revolution, questioning its relationship with Western modernity that affects the way global media approach and represent non- Western revolutions. Third, it compares global media practices with local media practices, highlighting how Eurocentric understanding of the events affects media reporting in global news outlets. The thesis finds that regional, cultural, and political peculiarities of the Arab Spring affected global media’s reporting. When the global Western media approached the revolutions in the Arab world, the Arab Spring was not just a name; it became a condensation of political and social contexts that provided the meaning for the events. Western media has conceptualized the Arab Spring as a regional Arab event, a temporary awakening, that can suddenly turn into a suppression of will and progress. Further on the concept of revolution as used by the media failed to explain the events: first, because the concept is defined by its own Western identity; second, because it is defined with its own understanding of modernization and progress that is specific to the European context.en_US
dc.description.degreePh.D.en_US
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dc.description.statementofresponsibilityby Petra Cafnik Uludağ.en_US
dc.embargo.release2020-07-20
dc.format.extentxii, 197 leaves : charts ; 29 cmen_US
dc.identifier.itemidB156051
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/33509
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherBilkent Universityen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectArab Springen_US
dc.subjectEurocentrismen_US
dc.subjectMedia Discourseen_US
dc.subjectOrientalismen_US
dc.subjectRevolutionen_US
dc.titleRevolution, modernity and the Arab Springen_US
dc.title.alternativeDevrim, modernleşme ve Arap Baharıen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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