Papers by Ahmet Aksoy
Carolinas Communication Annual, 2024
Environmental communication is centered around the communication practices that inform our audien... more Environmental communication is centered around the communication practices that inform our audiences about environmental affairs. The study looks at the communication approaches delivered by an environmental organization in South Carolina. Posts over the course of eight months were viewed and categorized through the Rademaekers and Johnson-Sheehan (2014) framework used to reframe climate change science in public communication. A qualitative textual analysis revealed these practices are sufficient to communicate with audiences on environmental matters in South Carolina. Our results also found the addition of the frame of civic engagement amongst its audiences. These findings inform us on social media's role in aiding environmental organizations with framing science content to publicly communicate and engage with their audiences.
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 2024
Using Co-Cultural Theory, we extend the concept of co-culture to the offspring of immigrants. The... more Using Co-Cultural Theory, we extend the concept of co-culture to the offspring of immigrants. The offspring immigrants are individuals with at least one foreign-born parent. Twenty-two offspring of Turkish immigrants born in the United States were interviewed about communication challenges from a co-cultural theoretical lens. Our analysis revealed that these participants utilize blending and co-cultural networking to process the intercultural tension they face within the US sociocultural landscape. These tensions inform us of how pronounced the US culture and power structure is and its ability to influence offspring immigrants' understanding of their cultural identity.
Communication Teacher , 2024
This activity merges dance and communication to invite intercultural learning. Through dance, stu... more This activity merges dance and communication to invite intercultural learning. Through dance, students will unpack the history, beliefs, customs, and values of the cultural groups that make up our societies.
Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics, 2023
We analyze the coverage of the Gezi Park protests by two major Western newspapers-The New York Ti... more We analyze the coverage of the Gezi Park protests by two major Western newspapers-The New York Times and The Guardian-through the lens of media framing, rhetoric, and collective memory. We argue that these digital archives frame Turkey's Gezi Park protests as a challenge to an authoritarian government by promoting the themes of unrest as a conflict of ideologies, oppression of citizens, and the park as a site of memory. In a concluding section, we focus on the significance of digital archives as repositories of collective memory and the role of media framing in shaping these reconstructions of events in the past.
Review of Communication, 2023
Contributing to the attempts to explore communication and adaptation, this study centers on the l... more Contributing to the attempts to explore communication and adaptation, this study centers on the lived experiences of second- generation Turkish Americans as they navigate a space that is shared among the culture of their origins and the U.S. culture into which they are born. By extending differential adaptation theory (DAT) to the offspring of Turkish immigrants, this qualitative study illustrates how the U.S. shapes the agency these offspring immigrants have in communicating their cultural identity. Twenty-two second-generation Turkish Americans were interviewed about communication challenges from a DAT lens. Findings suggest that U.S.-born children of Turkish immigrants take on differential means of adaptation in communicating cultural identity held in their names and access to their cultural groups. The experiences of offspring immigrants demonstrate how differential adaptation contrasts with differential adaptation experiences of their immigrant parents. Finally, limitations to this study are explored and offer a call to the continuation of cultural adaptation research.
Carolinas Communication Annual , 2023
During a crisis situation, communication professionals can realize the difficulties handling effe... more During a crisis situation, communication professionals can realize the difficulties handling effective communication. To emulate this, we propose a class activity that simulates real-life international crisis that have occurred. In doing so, students may understand and develop actions and problem-solving skills.
Journal of Media and Religion , 2021
In the aftermath of a terrorist attack on an Islamic community in New Zealand, how has the stigma... more In the aftermath of a terrorist attack on an Islamic community in New Zealand, how has the stigma and perceptions of the West about Islam impacted the reaction of audiences? Drawing on Tweets (Twitter) and the statements of Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, this paper explores how individuals construct their messages to establish a discourse that aspires to blend Islam into the “norm” of Western ideas and values. Applying the Goffman framework, we observe how the two compose their messages to resist the West’s stigma and perceptions of Islam and plea to being “normal.” Specifically, attention is placed on how normality is constructed through the presentation of Muslim’s place of worship, mosques, and their communities. A qualitative textual analy- sis revealed different interpretations of how these places of worship and their communities identify “normalness” in an attempt to de- stigmatize the negative construction of Islam in the West. Therefore, we consider how these interpretations produce normality amongst a perceived stigma of Islam in the West in the aftermath of a terrorist attack.
Book Chapters by Ahmet Aksoy
Book Reviews by Ahmet Aksoy
This review critiques Boylorn and Orbe’s Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identiti... more This review critiques Boylorn and Orbe’s Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life. Communication scholars’ account, equal parts visual and textual exploration of diversity and identity, offers the reader a unique interpretation in which our personal selves interact with the impersonal world. Through personal narratives, the authors explore the tangled relationships between culture and communication. Using auto- ethnography as a method, they present how we might further explore the aspects of race, gender, socioeconomic status, nationality, age, spirituality, and health. This review will evaluate the authors’ approach, as well as the effectiveness that autoethnography permits scholars to better understand the communicative relationships between identity and diversity.
Communication Booknotes Quarterly , 2019
A scholarly review of the book, Media Anthropology for the Digital Age, by Anna C. Pertierra.
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Papers by Ahmet Aksoy
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