Ferruh Yilmaz
I am currently Associate Professor in the Communication Department at Tulane University. Before becoming an academic, I worked as a journalist for a number of news organizations in Britain, Denmark and Turkey including the BBC World Service and Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) and Cumhuriyet (Turkish daily newspaper). I also worked as information officer at the Board for Ethnic Equality in Denmark (shut down in 2002).
My research is concerned with how the debate on (Muslim) immigration has led to the transformation of the social and political landscapes in Western Europe with a focus on Denmark. My research examines the process in which populist far right movements have gained unprecedented influence in European political discourse by antagonizing Muslim immigrants and Islam (In Denmark, Norway and Finland, the far right populists have become the second biggest parties in the parliament) and the media’s role in this process. I examine the rhetorical strategies of the populist far right’s political intervention, which has turned a society that understood itself as divided between social classes into a society that now conceives itself as an organic (ethnic/cultural) unity as opposed to the cosmopolitan cultural elite and Muslim immigrants. Furthermore I examine the role of moral panics and controversies in this transformation. The main focus of my research has been on building an operational theory of socio-political change developed through my published articles that explore different aspects of the change.
My next research project will expand on the relationship between moral panics, public crises, populist strategies and the media in a more comparative framework in order to develop a theory on the relationship between crisis, the media and political change.
Address: 219 Newcomb Hall
1229 Broadway
New Orleans, LA 70118
My research is concerned with how the debate on (Muslim) immigration has led to the transformation of the social and political landscapes in Western Europe with a focus on Denmark. My research examines the process in which populist far right movements have gained unprecedented influence in European political discourse by antagonizing Muslim immigrants and Islam (In Denmark, Norway and Finland, the far right populists have become the second biggest parties in the parliament) and the media’s role in this process. I examine the rhetorical strategies of the populist far right’s political intervention, which has turned a society that understood itself as divided between social classes into a society that now conceives itself as an organic (ethnic/cultural) unity as opposed to the cosmopolitan cultural elite and Muslim immigrants. Furthermore I examine the role of moral panics and controversies in this transformation. The main focus of my research has been on building an operational theory of socio-political change developed through my published articles that explore different aspects of the change.
My next research project will expand on the relationship between moral panics, public crises, populist strategies and the media in a more comparative framework in order to develop a theory on the relationship between crisis, the media and political change.
Address: 219 Newcomb Hall
1229 Broadway
New Orleans, LA 70118
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