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1. Serving the Evolving Communities: Functions of Turkish Diasporic Web Sites in Germany

Author

Kerem Rizvanoglu and Serhat Gürey

Subjects
Diaspora, internet, migration, identity, Turks, Germany, Social Sciences
Abstract

The central objective of this research is to shed light on the role of the diasporic web sites in terms of fulfilling various needs and expectations of diasporic communities, in which an evolving hybridity in structure has been revealed in recent years. In this context, it is aimed to investigate the functions of Turkish diasporic websites addressing the German-Turkish community. The study is undertaken by means of a content analysis of the main services provided in the five most popular Turkish web sites in Germany and through complementary semi-structured interviews with the moderators of these sites. The findings reveal that these web sites aim to undertake a unifying mission for the Turkish community in Germany.

Published
2010

3. Local Websites as the New Existence of Traditional Local Cultures in the Virtual Space: An Overview on the Local Websites of Turkey

Author

Özgürol Öztürk and Kerem Rizvanoǧlu

Subjects
Cultural experience, Multimedia, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Condolences, Virtual space, medicine.disease, computer.software_genre, World Wide Web, medicine, The Internet, Sociology, Function (engineering), business, computer, media_common, Web site
Abstract

With its original traditions and values dating back to hundreds of years in seven different regions, Turkey distinguishes by its own cosmopolite culture from the others. The local sites of the regions also differ by their aspects reflecting the old culture at both the content and the design level with original tools like "virtual graveyard visit, condolence function etc." Benefiting from the Internet technologies creatively and pragmatically, the sites actually enable the citizens (townsman) who live geographically apart to share the traditions and values of their culture. In other words, by providing the familiar cultural experience on the web, the sites enable a kind of virtual access to hometown. Being a former step of a larger study, this study aims to investigate qualitatively this new existence of the local cultures on the Internet by focusing on the content and design aspects of the sites involved.

Published
2007
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