Research Article

Public Sphere and Experience: Online Ethnographical Analysis of the Fikir Sahası YouTube Programme as An Example of Proletarian/Counterpublic Sphere

Volume: 3 Number: 2 December 26, 2025
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Public Sphere and Experience: Online Ethnographical Analysis of the Fikir Sahası YouTube Programme as An Example of Proletarian/Counterpublic Sphere

Abstract

This study is based on an online ethnographic approach that aims to highlight and discuss some aspects of the Fikir Sahası programme broadcast on Fikir TV YouTube channel that correspond to Kluge and Negt's definition of the proletarian/counterpublic sphere in the discourse dimension and to understand how new media can provide an environment for the formation of a proletarian/counterpublic sphere. In the YouTube programme under consideration, it is seen that the participants and the moderators of the programme are both activists and use a discourse to critically analyse the conceptions of the dominant public sphere formed by the combination of the bourgeois public sphere and the public sphere of industrialised production. It is tried to be understood how these criticisms are articulated with Kluge and Negt's conception of the proletarian/counterpublic sphere based on the collective experience horizon of the ‘proletarian’/subaltern class. Between 24 November 2024 and 19 January 2025, four programmes that were broadcast on Fikir TV YouTube channel and lasted approximately 4 hours and 15 minutes were selected through the criterion sampling method discussed under the heading of purposive sampling. The discourse-based data obtained from the sample were analysed by making interpretations and inferences by reviewing public sphere themes, codes-themes-categories such as “football as the public sphere of industrialised production”, “alternative football formations” and “gender-oriented football”. It has been concluded that new media is of significant importance in terms of revealing the defects of the mainstream sports media's language, form of representation and the world of meaning it imagines, and understanding the potential of mediating the discourse forms of counterpublic sphere subjects with limited visibility to make them audible-visible.

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References

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Communication Studies

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 26, 2025

Submission Date

January 31, 2025

Acceptance Date

April 9, 2025

Published in Issue

Year 2025 Volume: 3 Number: 2

APA
Yıldırım, B. (2025). Public Sphere and Experience: Online Ethnographical Analysis of the Fikir Sahası YouTube Programme as An Example of Proletarian/Counterpublic Sphere. Eurasian Journal of Media Communication and Culture Studies, 3(2), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.69999/emedia.1630583
AMA
1.Yıldırım B. Public Sphere and Experience: Online Ethnographical Analysis of the Fikir Sahası YouTube Programme as An Example of Proletarian/Counterpublic Sphere. EMEDIA. 2025;3(2):1-19. doi:10.69999/emedia.1630583
Chicago
Yıldırım, Berkay. 2025. “Public Sphere and Experience: Online Ethnographical Analysis of the Fikir Sahası YouTube Programme As An Example of Proletarian Counterpublic Sphere”. Eurasian Journal of Media Communication and Culture Studies 3 (2): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.69999/emedia.1630583.
EndNote
Yıldırım B (December 1, 2025) Public Sphere and Experience: Online Ethnographical Analysis of the Fikir Sahası YouTube Programme as An Example of Proletarian/Counterpublic Sphere. Eurasian Journal of Media Communication and Culture Studies 3 2 1–19.
IEEE
[1]B. Yıldırım, “Public Sphere and Experience: Online Ethnographical Analysis of the Fikir Sahası YouTube Programme as An Example of Proletarian/Counterpublic Sphere”, EMEDIA, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1–19, Dec. 2025, doi: 10.69999/emedia.1630583.
ISNAD
Yıldırım, Berkay. “Public Sphere and Experience: Online Ethnographical Analysis of the Fikir Sahası YouTube Programme As An Example of Proletarian Counterpublic Sphere”. Eurasian Journal of Media Communication and Culture Studies 3/2 (December 1, 2025): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.69999/emedia.1630583.
JAMA
1.Yıldırım B. Public Sphere and Experience: Online Ethnographical Analysis of the Fikir Sahası YouTube Programme as An Example of Proletarian/Counterpublic Sphere. EMEDIA. 2025;3:1–19.
MLA
Yıldırım, Berkay. “Public Sphere and Experience: Online Ethnographical Analysis of the Fikir Sahası YouTube Programme As An Example of Proletarian Counterpublic Sphere”. Eurasian Journal of Media Communication and Culture Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, Dec. 2025, pp. 1-19, doi:10.69999/emedia.1630583.
Vancouver
1.Berkay Yıldırım. Public Sphere and Experience: Online Ethnographical Analysis of the Fikir Sahası YouTube Programme as An Example of Proletarian/Counterpublic Sphere. EMEDIA. 2025 Dec. 1;3(2):1-19. doi:10.69999/emedia.1630583