Digital Transformation in Media & Society

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DOI :10.26650/B/SS07.2020.013.01   IUP :10.26650/B/SS07.2020.013.01    Full Text (PDF)

Digital Transformation in Television Series As a Popular Culture Product: A Study on Transnational Fandom of Turkish Television Series

Pınar Aslan

Turkey has become the world’s second exporter of television series after the United States. At the same time, fandom related to Turkish television series has expanded in scale, and changed in nature. This chapter offers an in-depth analysis of these changes as they relate to contemporary fandom. It accounts for the emergence of devoted fans of Turkish television series all over the world, a group that offers important insight for the future development of Turkish television series.


Keywords: Television series, popular culture, fandom

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