Fabricating “the people” – Negotiating representational claims in turkish social media in the context of generative AI (C01)

• Subject Area: Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438577023

The sub-project analyses the reciprocal production of media and political change in Turkey. In the second funding phase, it continues its empirical and conceptual investigation of the socio-technics of the fabrication of “the people” in social media and the negotiation of representa-tion claims with a focus on audiovisual platforms and the use of generative AI. It asks how popularity in political debates in Turkey is produced and problematised in the context of deep-fakes, fakes and AI-generated content.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1472: Transformations of the Popular
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Heads: Professorin Mine Gencel Bek, Ph.D.; Professorin Dr. Carolin Gerlitz