Music Videos as Protest Communication: The Gezi Park Protest on YouTube

Olu Jenzen; Itir Erhart; Hande Eslen-Ziya; Derya  Güçdemir; Umut Korkut; Aidan  McGarry

doi:10.5117/9789463724913

Music Videos as Protest Communication: The Gezi Park Protest on YouTube

Olu Jenzen, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Derya Güçdemir, Umut Korkut, Aidan McGarry

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Abstract

This chapter explores the relevance of the protest song as political communication in the Internet era. Focusing on the prolific and diverse YouTube music video output of the Gezi Park protest of 2013, we explore how digital technologies and social media offer new opportunities for protest music to be produced and reach new audiences. We argue that the affordances of digital media and Internet platforms such as YouTube play a crucial part in the production, distribution and consumption of protest music. In the music videos, collected from Twitter, activists use a range of aesthetic and rhetorical tools such as various mash-up techniques to challenge mainstream media reporting on the protest, communicate solidarity, and express resistance to dominant political discourse.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Aesthetics of Global Protest
Subtitle of host publication	Visual Culture and Communication
Editors	Aidan McGarry, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Olu Jenzen, Umut Korkut
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Publisher	Amsterdam University Press
Chapter	10
Pages	211-231
ISBN (Electronic)	9789048544509
ISBN (Print)	9789463724913
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724913
Publication status	Published - 9 Dec 2019

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Jenzen, O., Erhart, I., Eslen-Ziya, H., Güçdemir, D., Korkut, U., & McGarry, A. (2019). Music Videos as Protest Communication: The Gezi Park Protest on YouTube. In A. McGarry, I. Erhart, H. Eslen-Ziya, O. Jenzen, & U. Korkut (Eds.), The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication (pp. 211-231). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724913

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Jenzen, O, Erhart, I, Eslen-Ziya, H, Güçdemir, D, Korkut, U & McGarry, A 2019, Music Videos as Protest Communication: The Gezi Park Protest on YouTube. in A McGarry, I Erhart, H Eslen-Ziya, O Jenzen & U Korkut (eds), The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam , pp. 211-231. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463724913

Music Videos as Protest Communication: The Gezi Park Protest on YouTube. / Jenzen, Olu; Erhart, Itir; Eslen-Ziya, Hande et al.
The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication. ed. / Aidan McGarry; Itir Erhart; Hande Eslen-Ziya; Olu Jenzen; Umut Korkut. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019. p. 211-231.

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