In response to Richter and Ye's (2023) article on Instagram influencers, I critique the study's exclusive focus on a small number of female users with high follower counts, and I argue that this restricted sample selection presents a highly limited analysis by overlooking smaller yet influential users on the platform, the quantitative dimension of follower engagement, and gendered labor practices.

This paper was originally written for the COMM701 Inquiry Into Knowledge course taught by Nazan Haydari Pekkan in Istanbul Bilgi University. In this text, I will discuss the epistemological, ontological, and methodological similarities and differences between Meltem Ahıska’s work Radyonun Sihirli Kapısı: Garbiyatçılık ve Politik Öznellik and my doctoral thesis, which aims to analyze inter-object … Continue reading Feminist Art in Turkey Situated Somewhere Between Occidentalism and Care