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Yayın Social exclusion of women refugees in public imagination: underrepresentation and depersonalisation(Kilis 7 Aralık Üniversitesi, 2022-12-31) Pandır, MüzeyyenThis paper studies the news images of Syrian women refugees and the representational practices employed in them to question how these portraying practices position women refugees, and how they actually act as ways of socially excluding them in the host community. Analysed are the newspaper photographs of Syrian women refugees published in top-selling four Turkish newspapers in 2015. Using a content analysis fed by visual analysis, the ways of visually portraying women refugees is studied by investigating the representational elements and practices in the images, which are subject, theme, camera distance, camera angle and location. The findings reveal that Syrian women refugees are underrepresented and in the rare cases of their appearance, the way they are portrayed position them as distant, passive and depersonalised subjects as part of the masses. The underrepresentation and depersonalisation of women refugees, who are among the vulnerable women group 1) erase the individual life stories and varied lived experiences of women refugees from public imagination and deny the female refugee agency, 2) prevent the emergence of the public talk on the women refugee problems, which in turn 3) prevent the formation of a social understanding and empathy towards women refugees. Thus, it is argued that the ways in which Syrian women refugees are portrayed in the media act as barriers for their social inclusion.Yayın Media portrayals of refugees and their effects on social conflict and social cohesion(T.C. Dışişleri Bakanlığı Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi, 2020) Pandır, MüzeyyenMedia portrayals of refugees can produce prejudice toward refugees as well as understanding and acceptance. In that sense, the media have the potential to be part of the problem or part of the solution in issues of conflict and cohesion between host and refugee communities. In this critical time when the future of Syrian refugees in Turkey is being discussed, this article reviews previous research on the media’s representation of refugees, identifies the dominant representational practices and discusses their effects on the inclusion and exclusion of refugees, which may lead to social cohesion or social conflict, respectively. The main body of the article first identifies the negative effects of refugee representations, namely victimization, depoliticization, dehumanization, marginalization, homogenization and deindividualization, and explains in what ways these representations stigmatize refugees as “other” in society and produce prejudice and xenophobia toward them. The article then turns to the representation strategies used to reduce prejudice and motivate understanding in society. Here, empathizing with refugees and taking a rights-based journalism approach are identified among the media’s inclusion practices toward refugees. Overall, specifically focusing on Syrians in Turkey, the paper aims to initiate a discussion on how the media can play a role in assisting the acceptance of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in a new country by raising awareness about the media’s representational practices.Yayın Stereotyping, Victimization and depoliticization in the representations of Syrian refugees(Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2019-06-26) Pandır, MüzeyyenThis paper studiesthe representational constructions of the image of Syrian refugee in newspaper photographs and discusses the processes in which the Syrian refugee is victimized, stereotyped and depoliticized through representation. It analyses Syrian refugee photographs published between 2011 and 2015 in five Turkish newspapers. Working within visual sociological and constructivist perspectives, and synthesizing content and visual analyses, the study first dwells upon the universal “ideal victim” profile mentioned in victimology studies, then reveals that the image of Syrian refugee is predominantly constructed as “victim” in the analyzed newspaper photographs. The study elaborates that refugees’ victimhood is represented through different themes of suffering, which appear around the themes of poverty, displacement, the need, and loss and pain. Then the victimization of the refugee is problematized and discussed under two main arguments. The first argument discusses that the prevalence of the victim discourse in Syrian refugee photographs is achieved through the technique of stereotyping, which reproduces the universal image of the refugee as weak and vulnerable, regardless of time and context. The second argument discusses that victimization works as a device for depoliticization, which imagines the refugee only as weak and powerless rather than a subject with political agency who produces action and results. The paper concludes that victimization and depoliticization produce a disparity between the lived experiences of the refugee (who has survived a war) and the representations of the refugee (who is a powerless war victim).Yayın Unpacking the discursive construction of heirloom seeds: discourses, contests, connections(Bursa Uludağ University, 2024-08-31) Pandır, Müzeyyen; Erol, MaralThe 2006 Turkish Seed Law prohibited the selling of uncertified heirloom seeds, triggering heated debates on and around seeds. This paper examines the construction of discourses on heirloom seeds in Türkiye, focusing on the arguments of the key social actors in the field with a view to understand how knowledge production is taking place on seed. Conducting interviews with key state and non-state actors and analyzing their published documents related to heirloom seed through discourse-historical approach, we examined the argumentative perspectives shaping the discourse on seed. The results revealed a discursive dichotomy constructed between "heirloom seed" and "certified hybrid seeds." In particular, built on commercial and food security concerns, the state discourse frames heirloom seeds as low-yield and unable to feed the nation in comparison to certified hybrid seeds, whereas non-state discourse using the perspectives of agrobiodiversity and farmers’ sovereignty construct heirloom seeds with superior features, qualifying them as compatible with biodiversity and the current global and regional economic, environmental and climate problems. The study concludes that different perspectives and interests produced contradictory knowledge about seed (hence food) and caused different realities to exist simultaneously within this knowledge.Yayın Public service announcements about migrants: strategic constructions to reduce prejudice(Anadolu Üniversitesi, 2025-06-30) Pandır, MüzeyyenIn countries with large refugee and migrant populations, it is crucial to build good relations between the newcomers and the host communities. One method of increasing social acceptance and reducing prejudice is using media-based information and awareness-raising activities. !is study examines "ve public service announcement (PSA) "lms prepared by the Turkish Presidency of Migration Management between the years 2017-2021 to increase the social acceptance of migrants, and discusses their potential to reduce prejudice. !e PSAs are examined using a visual content analysis method focusing on the migrant pro"le, narrative structure, language and tone, emphasis on di#erence or similarity, representation of stereotypes, and narrator. !ree main "ndings emerged from the study: Firstly, the PSAs feature a theme of “Great Türkiye”, which emphasizes the greatness of Turkish history and assigns a responsibility to Turkish people to protect those in need, ultimately constructing a superiority over migrants. Secondly, PSAs present migrants in an ambivalent way as capable people contributing to the Turkish economy (visual) and as people in need of help (narrative). !irdly, PSAs use emotional language to deliver messages of understanding and benevolence. Overall, the study argues that PSAs strategically construct Turks as superior and portray migrants as ambivalent to reduce the perception of migrants as a competitive threat to Turks and with an emotional language they make the didactic messages seem less oppressive and patronizing. While these strategies may promote acceptance, their long-term impact is questionable if they are not supported by the teaching of values such as equality and respect.Yayın Photographs of Syrian asylum seekers in Turkish newspapers(Akademisyen Kitabevi, 2018) Selvin, Erdem; Pandır, Müzeyyen; Rog, Hanna[No abstract available]Yayın “Wanted! Ottoman Strawberry”: discursive practices of heirloom seeds in Turkey(Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), 2021-10-10) Erol, Maral; Pandır, MüzeyyenHeirloom seeds have been an oft-discussed subject in Turkey recently, especially since the introduction of a law that forbid selling of non-certified seeds in 2006, and a new by-law that passed in 2018. As material-semiotic actors, heirloom seeds are cherished both by proponents of ecological diversity who are mostly considered on the left of the political spectrum, and by nationalists and purists who are opposed to importing hybrid seeds from Israeli companies for reasons of purity and national self-sufficiency. Both parties agree on their interest in non-GMO, organic agriculture practices, yet they have different motivations for desirability of the seeds themselves, and what they represent. As such, heirloom seeds stand in the discursive junction of nationalism, ecological diversity, sustainable agriculture, and food security. This research is an analysis of the discourses of the main actors involved in agricultural policies (e.g. Ministry of Agriculture, Chamber of Agricultural Engineers, Turkey Seed Growers Association, Farmers Union, and environmental organizations). These actors engage in different kinds of knowledge production about heirloom seeds through their discursive practices, affecting the growing, purchasing, and exchange of the seeds in question. With an aim to reveal the continuities and conflicts in the discourse on heirloom seeds, we argue that heirloom seed is a site for resistance for good relations between human and more-than-human worlds, even though there is a strong tendency to co-opt it for industrial agriculture controlled with certification and patents.Yayın The construction of Syrian refugee identity by symbolic annihilation(University of Birmingham, Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS), 2022-09-16) Pandır, MüzeyyenThis paper is about identifying the ways in which some Syrian refugees and refugee experiences are underrepresented or made invisible in media representations. This mediated invisibility is partly achieved through representing the refugee within usual stereotypical patterns which reduce the experiences of the refugee only to a few (victimhood or being a threat) and partly through symbolic annihilation, which is defined as the absence of representation (Gerbner, 1976). Through an analysis of newspaper photographs published between the years 2011-2015, this paper discusses that what is made invisible in Syrian refugee representations are the diversity of their lived and positive experiences and characteristics, such as being entrepreneurs, well-educated people and even “normal people” enjoying the daily life. Diversity in representation is important because it reflects the actual complexity of lived experiences of refugees and brings a challenge to the stereotypical refugee images. Portraying the diverse refugee experiences also emphasizes the human agency which is neglected in the case of refugee/migrant issues. Consequently the study demonstrates and discusses that the identity of Syrian refugee is constructed not only through manifest representations but also through underrepresentation and symbolic annihilation.Yayın Reproduction of social biases through AI: a study on AI developers' awareness on social biases(BIDGE Publications, 2023-12-11) Şahin, Aylin; Pandır, MüzeyyenArtificial Intelligence (AI) stands as an evolving and controversial force, changing the way of work in numerous sectors including education, art, finance, health, transportation, and security, also having influences over daily lives. While discussions often revolve around the technological breakthroughs and economic ramifications of AI, it is imperative to recognize and address the social impacts and consequences it carries, particularly with respect to potential social biases and discriminations that it will (re)produce or contribute to. This study explores AI developers' awareness and perspectives on gender, race and ethnicity-based biases in general, and how AI may contribute to these in particular. Surveys were conducted with 60 professionals working in different areas of AI and related issues. The findings revealed relatively informed understandings of the concepts of gender, race and ethnicity, whereas a lack of awareness among participants about prejudice. The study discusses that while considering what new technologies bring to society, it is crucial to understand how these new technologies may perpetuate existing social problems. To prevent such developments, it is crucial that those who play a role in the development of these technologies have an informed and ethical perspective towards the reproduction of social inequalities, for building more inclusive societies.Yayın Exploring the dynamics of aesthetic judgments: the interplay of subjective and objective elements beyond socio-economic divides(Livre de Lyon, 2024-10) Kara, Şeyma Nur; Pandır, Müzeyyen; Öztürkçü Akçay, Aysel[No abstract available]
