Okan Kırbacı, a research assistant at the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, presented two papers titled “An Analysis of Quora in the Context of User Labor” and “Traces of Yeşilçam in Quality Television: The Example of a Club Series” at the Cultural Informatics, Communication and Media Studies Conference.
In his paper titled “An Analysis of Quora in the Context of User Labor” presented together with Melda Öztutgan, Kırbacı critically examined the relationship between user interactions, community dynamics and labor production on Quora, a social media platform, and platform capital. With the theoretical framework built on the concepts of digital labor and crowdsourcing, the study has revealed that Quora feeds off Web 2.0 culture and crowdsourcing, thus expanding its content and business model.
In his report titled “Traces of Yeşilçam in Quality Television: The Example of the Club Series,” Kırbacı examined the first season of the Club series through content analysis. He stated that the Club series bears traces of Yeşilçam in terms of activating myths such as self-sacrificing motherhood, melodramatic love affairs, and the willful driver character that are frequently encountered in Yeşilçam. However, he also stated that the series differs from Yeşilçam in terms of focusing on the September 6-7 Incidents and minority stories; its use of the musical genre and the western codes of the genre; and that the aspects it differs from constitute the characteristics specific to quality television.
We congratulate Res. Asst. Okan Kırbacı and wish him continued success.
