Ready, Set, Remix: Layers Of Resistance In Turkey’s Digital Everyday Through Remix Videos

This thesis examines political remix videos and remix culture that have emergedwithin digital space, a virtual and stratified extension of everyday life, by focusingon the context of resistance in Turkey. It analyzes the transformation of the dissidentidentity and resistance narratives that surfaced during the 2025 Saraçhane protestswith the nostalgic affects tied to the 2013 Gezi Park protests and early Republicannarratives. By comparing remix videos from the 2010s to 2020s, it temporarilyand thematically traces the practice of remixing resistance as a new media formshaped by socio-political dynamics and technological environment. These emotionallyresonant audiovisual narratives, which have found a meaningful place on socialmedia platforms, are discussed as digital, everyday, and socially embedded tactics ofresistance against invisibility in traditional media and social forgetting. This analysisis based on de Certeau’s (1984) theory of strategies and tactics, emphasizingtheir mnemonic and communicative functions. It argues that media practices basedon user participation and multilayered reproduction in digital environments offer ameaningful contribution to, and reflection of, the formation of resistance identitiesand narratives in contemporary society.