Why Twitter and Facebook are like nuclear weapons: Umut Ozkirimli traces his personal history of social media from the 2013 Gezi Park uprising to his own cancellation in 2020

EPISODE 1672: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Umut Ozkirimli the author of CANCELLED, about  his personal history of social media from the 2013 Gezi Park uprising to his own cancellation in 2020

Umut Özkırımlı is a Senior Research Fellow at IBEI. He is also a Professor at Blanquerna (Universitat Ramon Llull) and a Senior Research Associate at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs). Before relocating to Barcelona, he was a Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University. He is the author of Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000; second revised and extended edition 2010. Translated into Turkish, Greek, Arabic, Persian, Albanian); Contemporary Debates on Nationalism: A Critical Engagement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Translated into Turkish and Chinese); Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey (with Spyros A. Sofos, Hurst & Co. and Oxford University Press, 2008. Translated into Turkish and Greek). His latest books are The Making of a Protest Movement in Turkey: #occupygezi (edited collection, Palgrave Pivot, 2014) and Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (third revised and extended edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).  He also held shorter research fellowships at IWM - Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna and LSEE - Research on South East Europe, LSE. He is currently working on three monographs: Dumb Swedes, Smart Turks? Nationalism, Democracy and the Global Crisis of Trust (with Lars Trägårdh and Henrik Berggren, Bristol University Press, 2020), #MeToo: Who? The Human Rights and Wrongs of Sex (with Julie Wark, 2021) and The Politics of Polarization: Nationalism, Populism and the Future of Democracy(Polity, 2021). Other, more distant, projects include a new book series on "New Perspectives in Nationalism Studies" (with Daphne Halikiopoulou, Palgrave Macmillan); and one edited collection and one monograph to be published as part of the series (with Daphne Halikiopoulou).

Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.

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