Activist translation in Turkish digitosphere: Transforming translation process(es) and translator role(s)

This dissertation investigates the functions and dynamics of translation and translators in activist knowledge accumulation and practice of activism by analysing some of the activist platforms in Turkish digitosphere, and the firsthand records of the digital activist translators from such platforms where activist translation plays a pivotal role in causing potential sociocultural and sociopolitical changes through textual transformations and translators' evolving forms of engagement. These activist platforms, activist translators, and activist translation practice have, over time, experienced a restructuring process with the technological developments created by the globalization movement and the increased intercultural interaction of activist struggles with the digital turn in the 2000s. Furthermore, this research has also indicated that themes of activism other than feminism ― and queer to a limited extent ―, and the application of activist translation in today's ever-digitalizing environments have been ignored and underproblematized in terms of activist translation and its engagement with such a transformative knowledge transfer, textual production, circulation, and reception. Within this scope, this dissertation aims to fill the existing gap regarding the underproblematized interaction among translation, activism, and digitality in Turkish context. Having critically and closely analysed the interventions and modifications the digital activist translators made on these platforms, this dissertation sets forth that activist translators challenge and disrupt hegemonic public narratives through peculiar textual production and translation strategies, forms of engagement, peculiar ethical justifications, and challenges.