MIC Colloquium with Duru Su Kadıoğlu

This talk examines how digital platforms are reshaping journalism in Turkey, focusing on shifts in revenue models, audience data practices, and the growing importance of infrastructures such as search, social media, and digital advertising. It situates these developments within broader dynamics of capital accumulation, market concentration, and data commodification, where global technology companies increasingly structure the conditions of visibility and monetization. Drawing on my dissertation research, the focus is on regulatory and policymaking processes, particularly how the Turkish state engages with platform power through competition law, media policy, and emerging forms of digital regulation. The state is not treated as external to these dynamics; regulation is understood as embedded within existing relations of dependency and asymmetry. Using Turkey as a case study, the study speaks to broader questions of platform governance in the Global South, where these processes unfold under conditions of uneven development and structural dependency, and where platform power and state intervention are closely intertwined.

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