Review: Technology and National Identity in Turkey. Mobile Communications and the Evolution of a Post-Ottoman Nation

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Author(s)	Petr Kučera
Contact	Petr Kučera, Charles University, Celetná 20, Praha 1, 110 00, Czech Republic. E-mail: kucerapetr@post.cz
Issue	CyberOrient, Vol. 8, Iss. 2, 2014, pp. 89-93
Published	November 10, 2014
Type	Book Review
Abstract	Technology and National Identity in Turkey is a social study of technology or, more precisely, of the cultural, historical, social, psychological and individual contexts, attitudes, and practices connected to and resulting from the use of mobile phones in Turkey. It also looks into the ways this technology has been 'domesticated' or 'nationalized' and links it to the shaping of national identity.
Keywords	identity, public sphere, mobile phones, Turkey, communication studies, globalisation

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