Ozduzen, O. orcid.org/0000-0003-3639-9650 and McGarry, A. (2020) Digital traces of “Twitter Revolutions”: resistance, polarization, and surveillance via contested images and texts of occupy Gezi. International Journal of Communication, 14. pp. 2543-2563. ISSN 1932-8036
Abstract
Protest movements have been galvanized recently by social media and are commonly, and somewhat hyperbolically, referred to by mainstream media as “Twitter revolutions.” This article identifies social media as a battleground for disseminating contending versions of reality, not only during Twitter revolutions, but also in their aftermath. Articulating the enduring impact of popular social movements and examining how protestors and governmental supporters contest their meaning over time, the article studies the digital traces of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey (2013) after the mobilization dissipated. The digital traces of protests act as critical digital artifacts of contestation with actors on both sides (pro- and anti-AKP [Justice and Development Party] government in Turkey). These digital traces are reanimated by both actors to build support, assert truth claims, foster identity/community, and/or demand recognition. The article deploys content and multimodal analyses of texts and images on Twitter, shared through hashtags on the protests when the protests’ alleged leaders faced trials (2018‒2019).
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 (Ozge Ozduzen and Aidan McGarry). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
Keywords: | digital traces; online polarization; resistance; surveillance; Occupy Gezi; political image |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2021 13:13 |
Last Modified: | 04 Aug 2021 17:10 |
Published Version: | https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/12400 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Southern California |
Refereed: | Yes |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:176779 |