On 25 February, nineteen days after two major earthquakes devastated Turkey and Syria, fans of the Turkish football team Fenerbahçe protested the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP), or Justice and Development Party, government with chants calling for them to resign. The government's belated and in..
Şebnem Baran
Şebnem Baran is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Smith College's Film and Media Studies Department. She received her doctorate in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California in 2018. Baran's dissertation explores how Anglo-American quality programming standards are claiming more importance in the global television market. Her work on Behzat Ç. and Leyla ile Mecnun surveys the Turkish interpretation of quality TV and its intersection with fan activism. In addition to fan studies, her research interests include transnational television flows, quality TV, media industries, online streaming, and audience studies.