Based on 9 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul, Turkey, this article explores the affective attachments circulating around urban spaces of journalism in Istanbul, with particular attention to how experiences of urban life shape journalists’ imaginaries of their relationship to each other, the city, their audience, and the broader “public” of Turkey. This article considers how journalistic life and practice is a form of subjectivity that hinges upon spatialized affects and affective spaces. These affects emerge as the physical landscapes and spaces of journalism alter, whereby journalists attach and reflect on different spaces as they try to make sense of their professional lives amidst the uncertainties of spatial change. This article orients the narratives presented—which highlight themes of professional solidarity, dispossession, and social isolation—to argue that definitions and practices of journalism are “embedded in the changing rhythms and dynamics of urban life” (Rodgers et al., 2014: p. 106).

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“It's chaos”：伊斯坦布尔新闻业的情感空间


基于在土耳其伊斯坦布尔进行的 9 个月的民族志田野调查，本文探讨了在伊斯坦布尔城市新闻空间周围流传的情感依恋，特别关注城市生活经历如何塑造记者对他们彼此、城市、受众和土耳其更广泛的“公众”关系的想象。本文探讨了新闻生活和实践如何成为一种主观性形式，它取决于空间化的情感和情感空间。这些影响随着新闻业的物理景观和空间的变化而出现，记者们在空间变化的不确定性中试图理解自己的职业生涯时，会依附并反思不同的空间。本文对所提出的叙述进行了定位——突出了职业团结、剥夺和社会孤立等主题——以论证新闻的定义和实践“嵌入在城市生活不断变化的节奏和动态中”（Rodgers 等人，2014 年：第 106 页）。