Ogan gives keynote at Istanbul conference
Professor Emerita Christine Ogan spoke Dec. 11 at the Media-Bridge-Cultures conference in Istanbul.
The conference brings scholars together to explore research about how the media portrays, creates and connects cultures and countries.
Ogan’s talk, “The Turkish Diaspora in Northern Europe: The Method and the Meaning of Connections Made with Turkey over the Decades,” looked at communication and technology resources for Turkish workers in Europe with their families still in Turkey and with Europeans.
She compared those means, which were affected by underdeveloped technology, a language barrier and a lack of dictionaries, with the communications of newer generations of Euro-Turks native to Europe.
Ogan’s research is based on her experiences in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Turkey interviewing first, second and third generation European Turks.
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