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.

So glad to see this article finally see the light! Out now in @emospasoc: we explore how distinct emotions, distrust and disillusionment, shaped the emergence, mobilisation & persistence of anti-lockdown protests. With @ozgeozdu & Bogdan Ianosev. doi.org/10.1016/j.em...

📢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)

İmamoğlu’s X account—Istanbul’s mayor and Erdoğan’s top rival, recently jailed—has been blocked in Turkey. A clear example of how Musk’s ‘commitment to free speech’ favors illiberalism over progressive voices. Erdoğan’s government’s rising authoritarian moves benefit from this new online environment

Ah😍 So amazing to see the notebook again, brings back so many memories! Notes on talks by Jolie and the best academic crew!!what a journey it’s had😄

Fierce protests after Turkish President Erdogan's main rival Imamoglu jailed Protests against the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who denies corruption charges, continued on Sunday.

The BBC has finally made the protests in Turkey its top headline. It also references X, which shut down 700 opposition accounts in Turkey that supported democracy and called for the release of İmamoğlu, Erdoğan’s main rival. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘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....

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