Ozge Ozduzen

Using interviews and participant observation, we examined the emotions of anti-lockdown protesters towards news, information and misinformation sources and the political elite while exploring conspiracy coalitions in the protests and the larger affective anti-lockdown atmosphere.

📢I'm happy to share our new publication entitled '“Media is absolutely disgusting”: Emotions and affect towards political elites, information sources and conspiracy theories in anti-lockdown protests' in Emotion, Space and Society with @billuraslanozgul.bsky.social & Bogdan Ianosev (1/2)

📢I'm looking for research participants who identify as a woman in the UK, use/used dating apps and women-only dating app support groups for women on Facebook. Please get in touch with me here or over email o.ozduzen@sheffield.ac.uk for a 45 mins-1 hour interview and £20 voucher.

💥Can we still talk about identity performance on social media?💥 Hannah Ditchfield and I say yes! We explored #TikTok content about #hereditarycancer and found 3 types of identity work 👇. Part of @leverhulme.ac.uk - funded Previvorship (bit.ly/3MpCAAs), out in Social Media+Society: shorturl.at/4BV23

‘They don’t care about you, me or anyone else’: populist storytelling in anti-lockdown protests This paper contributes to the study of populism and populist social movements by emphasising the centrality of Manichaeism and conspiracy theories for populism. It reveals how these elements emerge...

📢 Happy that our article with Bogdan Ianosev and Billur Aslan Ozgul is out, examining the centrality of Manichaeism and conspiracy theories for populism and populist social movements and their organic emergence with populist storytelling in anti-lockdown protests: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Let us teach our children’: Online racism and everyday far-right ideologies on TikTok This paper identifies perceptions of injustice, grievance, and alienation as online drivers of radicalisation by concentrating on contemporary visual radicalisation patterns. It focuses on far-righ...

From @brunelcce.bsky.social [2023]: "findings highlight mundane online expressions on TikTok that reinforce notions of a shared idealised identity built on nostalgic reinterpretations of an imperial past, which contribute to mainstreaming of far-right ideologies" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Visual images are inherently political and are key sites for the negotiation, consolidation, and naturalisation of major cultural narratives and social norms underpinning collective identities of radicalised groups." by @ozgeozduzen.bsky.social & Nelli Ferenczi & Isabel Holmes
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Excited to share our latest research on #antigenderism in #Turkey with Ozge Ozduzen @ozgeozduzen.bsky.social
We introduce the concept of "masculinist entrenchment" to understand the top-down imposition of anti-genderism in Turkey. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Anti-genderism in Turkey: Masculinist entrenchment through cultural intimacies Anti-gender movements jeopardise the rights of minoritised groups including women and LGBTQ+ people. Examining the existing literature on anti-genderi…

Here is my first post here to say hello. I'm happy to share our new article with @ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social on anti-gender movements in #Turkey, using the concepts of cultural intimacies and masculinist entrenchment to examine the top-down anti-gender politics. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...