The Greek Fandom of Turkish Soap Operas and the Tourism Industry: Traveling through Borders, Realities, and Identities

Larochelle, Dimitra Laurence

doi:10.1111/jpcu.12864

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“…Journal of Current Cultural Research to positively marketing "the nation" (Larochelle 2019, Thelen et al 2020. This marketing involves the scripted presentation of identity.…”

Section: Culture Unboundmentioning

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“What is the Real Sweden?”

Blom

2023

Cult. Unbound

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While the interest and search for identity through genealogy or family history is not new, the increased mediatization, access, and range of vehicles through which one can engage and learn are. What are the effects of this mediatization of identity and genealogy? How do individuals understand and interact with these mediatized representations? Since the expanded availability and marketing of genetic/DNA testing in the 1990s, and media programmes that trace the “roots” of famous people such as “Who do you think you are?” interest in genealogy has exponentially grown. In relation, ancestry tourism has grown in popularity before the Covid-19 pandemic and is projected by many researchers, culture, and government organisations post-pandemic to be instrumental in rebuilding tourism for many affected places and countries. The Swedish reality television programme, “Allt för Sverige” acts as a bridge between the mediatization of genealogy and this ancestry tourism interest. American contestants are introduced to a frame of Swedish identity as produced through the institutional structures of a television show, reflecting larger historical and socio-cultural assumptions, ideologies, and knowledge. This identity encoded by the programme of “Allt för Sverige” is engaged with/decoded and reacted to by the contestant. Utilising the concept of frame and framing, from Goffman and media studies, the presentation of Swedish Identity in “Allt för Sverige’s” is explored in the narratives from semi-structured interviews with 16 previous contestants. This data is analysed through Hall’s theoretical encoding/decoding model. This study contributes with new knowledge to the ongoing research examining the interest and mediatization of genealogy by focusing on the effect on participants in front of the camera instead of the targeted audience.

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“…Journal of Current Cultural Research to positively marketing "the nation" (Larochelle 2019, Thelen et al 2020. This marketing involves the scripted presentation of identity.…”

Section: Culture Unboundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“What is the Real Sweden?”

Blom

2023

Cult. Unbound

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Le soft power à l’épreuve de la réception

Larochelle¹

2021

Réseaux

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En nous basant sur les données recueillies pendant notre enquête empirique sur la réception des feuilletons turcs par les Grecs, nous mettons à l’épreuve dans ce texte la notion de soft power (Nye, 2004). L’attrait des feuilletons télévisés turcs auprès des publics grecs est dû à la proximité culturelle entre les deux pays, mais cette proximité culturelle n’abolit pas les différends politiques entre ces populations voisines, pas plus que le goût pour les feuilletons télé turcs ne signifie un soutien de la population grecque au gouvernement turc. Plus précisément, notre enquête confirme le rôle joué par plusieurs facteurs tels que la prédisposition du public, les relations diplomatiques en vigueur entre deux pays, la vision du monde des téléspectateurs ou encore la mémoire collective, familiale et/ou personnelle comme tiers-médiateur de la réception de ces fictions sérielles.

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The Greek Fandom of Turkish Soap Operas and the Tourism Industry: Traveling through Borders, Realities, and Identities

Cited by 2 publications

References 23 publications

“What is the Real Sweden?”

“What is the Real Sweden?”

Le soft power à l’épreuve de la réception

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