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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Global Media and Communication and the definitive published version will be available at https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journal/global-media-and-communication ; Communications are assemblages of infrastructures, materialities and meanings. As such they are integral to the making and intersecting of the material, institutional and discursive undercurrents of neoliberal authoritarian governmentality regimes. However, the existing political communication largely focuses on the discursive dimensions of communications, and disregards how communications partake in the governing of populations through economic, material and institutional practices. By focusing on Turkey's case, here I move beyond this approach and examine the role of communications in the development of neoliberal capital accumulation, authoritarian welfare politics, political repression and the production of popular support. This analysis focuses on information society plans, e-governance and digitisation, liberalisation, de/re-regulation, and the restructuration of ownership and control of communication networks between 2002 and 2016.

This article was published in the European Journal of Communication [SAGE © The Author(s)] and the definitive version is available at: https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/23147 ; This article is concerned with the symbolic power of individualized media technologies in the peripheral contexts of capitalist globality and modernity. In a critique of studies that have suggested that technologies as structuring agents of social positions of the users seem to emerge from the neo-liberalization of the non-West and from the specific use of digital technologies, I argue that such a positioning has a deeply historical character. Its historical roots are to be found in the social, political and cultural regimes of modernity, where it is demanded that agents define and shape themselves in terms of a capacity to adjust to technological practices and to employ technologies in order to occupy distinct positions within social relations. By focusing on the social history of telephony in the post-war era through the 1970s, I show the ways in which a technology such as telephony can become a forceful agent of symbolic power that structures and deepens social distinctions within the peripheral contexts of capitalist globality and modernity.

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal New Perspectives on Turkey and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S089663460000203X ; How do digital technologies function for the state in its pacification strategies concerning the dissident political bodies, their subjectivities and communicative capabilities? How does resistance take place against the surveillance practices which come to the fore as a state form, as a means of social control, and as a mechanism of creating manageable and disciplined crowds? Drawing upon the ethnographic data, this article attempts to discuss these questions, by focusing on the contemporary politics surrounding the Kurdish movement in Turkey. In particular, it presents an analysis of the digitized surveillance and resistance of Kurds both of which come to function as crucial components of the contemporary power regimes in Turkey.