Koray Çalışkan discusses the connection between digital political activism and on-the-ground political activism in Turkey, whether social media is an alternative to mainstream media, and how social media offers freedom of expression in an otherwise authoritarian system of politics in Turkey.
Çalışkan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Boğaziçi University.
This interview was conducted on March 28, 2018, by Emre Hatipoğlu, Associate Professor of Political Science at Sabancı University and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University.
Sponsored by The Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies, Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul, and The Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
