ORTADOĞU’DA DEMOKRATİKLEŞME SÜRECİNDE YENİ MEDYANI by Habibe Akcay Bekiroğlu
2010 yılı sonrasında Ortadoğu’daki toplumsal dönüşümlerde yeni medyanın yerinin anlaşılması bu ça... more 2010 yılı sonrasında Ortadoğu’daki toplumsal dönüşümlerde yeni medyanın yerinin anlaşılması bu çalışmanın konusunu oluşturmaktadır. Yeni medya teknolojilerinin gelişmesi ve yaygınlaşmasıyla tüm dünyada büyük dönüşümler yaşanmıştır. Özellikle sosyal medyayla birlikte iletişim süreci daha özgür, katılımcı, karşılıklı ve zaman ve mekândan bağımsız hale gelmiştir.
Ortadoğu Arap coğrafyasında baskıcı ve totaliter rejimlerin halkı önemsemeyen, antidemokratik uygulamaları söz konusudur. Bunun sonucunda birikmiş halk öfkeleri tepkisel hareketlere dönüşmüş, yeni medya ise halkın kendini ifade etmesinde, bilgi sahibi olmasında ve aynı amaç için birlikte hareket etmesinde önemli bir araç rolünü üstlenmiştir. Uzun yıllardır hüküm süren baskıcı yönetimler kısa sürede devrilmiştir. Tüm bunlar demokratikleşme süreci açısından dikkate değerdir.
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Media Literacy and Academic Research, Dec 31, 2022
This study’s aim is to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and socia... more This study’s aim is to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and social media addiction (SMA) in Communication undergraduate students in Turkey. In addition to EI, the impact of demographic variables and social media use habits on SMA were investigated. For the study, quantitative method was chosen, and an online questionnaire was conducted on 317 Communication undergraduate students in Turkey with 301 participants being the final sample from different cities in Turkey. As a result of the study, analyses indicated that EI and SMA were related at medium and low levels. The EI partly predicted SMA. It was determined with Path analysis that intrapersonal skills, dealing with stress and adaptability could be statistically significant predictors of SMA sub-dimensions virtual tolerance and virtual communication at a negative level, and time spent on social media, number of posts on social media could have a significant impact on students’ SMA at a positive level. This research differs from other research conducted in Turkey in terms of SMA being examined with the focus of EI.
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Ordu üniversitesi sosyal bilimler enstitüsü sosyal bilimler araştırmaları dergisi, Dec 1, 2016
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Bireylerin duygusal zekâsı, kendi ve başkalarının duygularını tanımlamayı, kontrol etmeyi ve yöne... more Bireylerin duygusal zekâsı, kendi ve başkalarının duygularını tanımlamayı, kontrol etmeyi ve yönetmeyi sağlayan bütüncül bir yapıyı oluşturmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, duygusal zekânın göstergesi olarak bireylerin kişisel beceriler, kişilerarası beceriler ve genel ruh durumu düzeylerinin yüksek ya da düşük olmasının sosyal medya bağımlılığıyla ne denli ilişkili olduğu ele alınmıştır. Ayrıca kişisel beceriler, kişilerarası beceriler, genel ruh durumunun sosyal medya bağımlılığını ne derece etkilediği (yordadığı) ve bu değişkenlerin demografik özellikler ile sosyal medya kullanım alışkanlıklarına göre farklılık düzeyi bu çalışmada incelenmiştir. Araştırmada nicel araştırma deseni seçilmiş, amaçlı ve kolayda örneklem tekniği ile belirlenen 207 kişiden veriler elde edilmiştir. Araştırmanın verileri 01-20 Mayıs 2019 tarihleri arasında yapılandırılmış soru formu ile sınıf ortamında yapılan yüz yüze anket yöntemiyle toplanmıştır. Çalışma bulgularına göre kişisel beceriler, kişilerarası becerile...
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People need the power of societies to feel the support of people who think like them. The individ... more People need the power of societies to feel the support of people who think like them. The individual who is in search of meaning for his own life considers the collective movement as an opposition and the point of establishing himself. Social movements as the manifestation of the displeasure and rebellion against sanctions are the nerve endings of the opposition periods. These movements may cause important problems in the long term for governments who cannot analyze the processes accurately and cannot interpret these processes. Social movements are the products of the collective mind. Therefore, communication tools which support this collectivity are needed. As the organization of collective behavior becomes the main purpose, social media turns into a more important gathering place than the streets. On the other hand, it is possible to say that a new perception and interpretation process is achieved for participating in social movements with this new point of view. Unlike previous examples, the purpose of the new social movements is to have visible identities in the social area and maintain a specific lifestyle. In short, it is possible to explain the new social movements as the individual’s effort to exist and maintain their existence in daily life. The Internet was originally created as a tool used by the military in the USA in 1969. Today it has become one of the main tools for almost one third of the world’s population (Szajkowski, 2011). According to Castells (2012/2013), communication technologies, particularly social media, play an efficient role in the construction of social movements. Castells reiterates the crucial role of wireless communication networks in the emergence of this new form of rebellion and its attempts to achieve its target. Movements which are deemed as using social media efficiently include the “Arab Spring”, a reaction to oppressive governments which occurs in Arabic geography particularly in Tunisia and Egypt; “Occupy Wall Street”, which emerged as the result of the anger against the finance world in the USA; the “Angry People’s Movement” in Spain which consists of unemployed young people who do not depend on any political movement; and the latest being the rebellions which started in “Taksim Gezi Park” and spread to nation-wide. The usage of social media as an efficient mobilization and coordination tool in these movements has made the discussions and researches on social media even more important. According to some researchers, these movements which are coordinated through social media and spread to wide audiences are qualified as “social media revolutions”, and the experienced social reactions and opposition movements become the “tool of struggle” of the social media revolution. The interactive nature of social media means that the content may be fictionalized and shaped (produced again). That is, an active role is given to the audience who in the position of the receiver of the social media texts, but also exert an effect on them. It determines the agenda of the receiver (user) with the agenda that is shaped/ fictionalized while being a determinant of the content. Social media texts are the media text in which different discourses may occur together. Like other mass communication tools, meaning in social media is established within a hegemonic structure. Forming the meaning they are the opposite meanings. Due to its nature, social media is a tool which includes different meanings. In the texts with multi-meaning, the meaning is provided by using intertextuality, irony, metaphor, and simile. This study is a language analysis. The size of the study is formed by how the language is organized, how the social movements are represented, for what kind of meaning it is used and how the social movements are perceived in social media from the point of view of the TEMA foundation. This study uses the Discourse Analysis technique to analyze the posts and shares by TEMA foundation between 28th May and 11th June 2013 as the Gezi Park rebellion started and its effect on the agenda.
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Öz Televizyonun büyülü dünyası bireylerin ilgisini çekerek onları yönlendirmektedir. Televizyon p... more Öz Televizyonun büyülü dünyası bireylerin ilgisini çekerek onları yönlendirmektedir. Televizyon programları arasında dizilerin çok önemli bir izlenme potansiyeli bulunmaktadır. Bu dizilerden bir tanesi de eleştirildiği halde izlenme rekoru kıran Aşk-ı Memnu dizisidir. Toplum tarafından kabul görmeyen, yasak aşkı konu alması nedeniyle eleştirilmesine rağmen, Aşk-ı Memnu dizisinin neden bu kadar yoğunlukta izlendiği bu çalışmanın ana sorunsalıdır. Çalışmada, izleyicilerin Aşk-ı Memnu dizisini nasıl okudukları ve alımladıklarının belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Alımlama analizi yönteminin kullanıldığı bu çalışma, eşit sosyo-demografik özelliklere sahip 12 katılımcıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Dizinin bazı bölümleri-özellikle de final bölümü-katılımcılarla birlikte izlenmiş ve ardından programın katılımcılar üzerindeki bilişsel-psikolojik etkilerini belirlemek için her katılımcıyla derinlemesine görüşmeler yapılmıştır. Daha sonra, televizyonun ideolojik boyutu da göz önünde bulundurularak katı...
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Öz Televizyonun büyülü dünyası bireylerin ilgisini çekerek onları yönlendirmektedir. Televizyon p... more Öz Televizyonun büyülü dünyası bireylerin ilgisini çekerek onları yönlendirmektedir. Televizyon programları arasında dizilerin çok önemli bir izlenme potansiyeli bulunmaktadır. Bu dizilerden bir tanesi de eleştirildiği halde izlenme rekoru kıran Aşk-ı Memnu dizisidir. Toplum tarafından kabul görmeyen, yasak aşkı konu alması nedeniyle eleştirilmesine rağmen, Aşk-ı Memnu dizisinin neden bu kadar yoğunlukta izlendiği bu çalışmanın ana sorunsalıdır. Çalışmada, izleyicilerin Aşk-ı Memnu dizisini nasıl okudukları ve alımladıklarının belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Alımlama analizi yönteminin kullanıldığı bu çalışma, eşit sosyo-demografik özelliklere sahip 12 katılımcıyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Dizinin bazı bölümleri-özellikle de final bölümü-katılımcılarla birlikte izlenmiş ve ardından programın katılımcılar üzerindeki bilişsel-psikolojik etkilerini belirlemek için her katılımcıyla derinlemesine görüşmeler yapılmıştır. Daha sonra, televizyonun ideolojik boyutu da göz önünde bulundurularak katılımcıların verdikleri cevapların yorumları yapılmıştır. Yapılan çalışmanın sonucunda alımlama analizinin savunduğu gibi izleyicilerin aktif oldukları bulunmuştur. Abstract Magical world of TV attracted the interest of individuals conduct them. Among all television programmes, tv series have an important watching potential. Ask-ı Memnu is one of these tv series which beats the watching records although mostly criticized. While the series of Aşk-ı Memnu is not gained admission by public and is criticized to be about forbidden love why the series is so popularly watched is main problematic of this study. The study is aimed to determine how audience have recepted and read the series of Aşk-ı Memnu. This study, which used the method of reception analysis was carried out with twelve participants having equal socio-demographic features. Some episodes of the series including especially final one were watched with the participants, and then interviews with each participant were conducted to determine cognitive psychological impact of the series on the program's participants in-depth. Later, comments on answers of the participants have been made by considering the ideological dimension of the television. It is concluded that audiences are active as reception analysis predicts.
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This study aims to determine the dimensions of digital schizophrenia caused by Facebook use among... more This study aims to determine the dimensions of digital schizophrenia caused by Facebook use among the young in terms of the manner of their communication, self-presentation, social interaction, and interpersonal relation. In order to do this a questionnaire was applied on 365 university students. According to the results of empirical research, the contacts and communications through Facebook explain Digital Schizophrenia in the dimensions of Fragmented Personality, Depreciation of the Professional Role and the Digitalization of the Interpersonal Relations. Also the study the relations between self-esteem and Facebook use and the relations among the factors. Accordingly, self-esteem influences all the dimensions of digital schizophrenia.
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Dijital Evrende Reklam , 2023
Bu çalışmanın amacı, Instagram’ı aktif olarak kullanan annelerin söylemlerinden hareketle Instagr... more Bu çalışmanın amacı, Instagram’ı aktif olarak kullanan annelerin söylemlerinden hareketle Instagram reklamlarındaki stratejileri belirlemektir. Çalışma verilerinin toplanmasında derinlemesine mülakat yöntemine başvurulmuştur. Araştırmanın amacına uygun olarak seçilen 10 katılımcı ile araştırmacı eşliğinde gerçekleştirilen görüşmelerde, Instagram sayfalarında reklam amacıyla paylaşılan içeriklerin, anneler tarafından nasıl algılandığı ve katılımcıların Instagram reklamlarına yönelik geliştirdikleri olumlu ya da olumsuz duygusal tepkiler belirlenmiştir.
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People need the power of societies to feel the support of people who think like them. The individ... more People need the power of societies to feel the support of people who think like them. The individual who is in search of meaning for his own life considers the collective movement as an opposition and the point of establishing himself. Social movements as the manifestation of the displeasure and rebellion against sanctions are the nerve endings of the opposition periods. These movements may cause important problems in the long term for governments who cannot analyze the processes accurately and cannot interpret these processes.
Social movements are the products of the collective mind. Therefore, communication tools which support this collectivity are needed. As the organization of collective behavior becomes the main purpose, social media turns into a more important gathering place than the streets. On the other hand, it is possible to say that a new perception and interpretation process is achieved for participating in social movements with this new point of view. Unlike previous examples, the purpose of the new social movements is to have visible identities in the social area and maintain a specific lifestyle. In short, it is possible to explain the new social movements as the individual’s effort to exist and maintain their existence in daily life.
The Internet was originally created as a tool used by the military in the USA in 1969. Today it has become one of the main tools for almost one third of the world’s population (Szajkowski, 2011). According to Castells (2012/2013), communication technologies, particularly social media, play an efficient role in the construction of social movements. Castells reiterates the crucial role of wireless communication networks in the emergence of this new form of rebellion and its attempts to achieve its target.
Movements which are deemed as using social media efficiently include the
“Arab Spring”, a reaction to oppressive governments which occurs in Arabic geography particularly in Tunisia and Egypt; “Occupy Wall Street”, which emerged as the result of the anger against the finance world in the USA; the “Angry People’s Movement” in Spain which consists of unemployed young people who do not depend on any political movement; and the latest being the rebellions which started in “Taksim Gezi Park” and spread to nation-wide. The usage of social media as an efficient mobilization and coordination tool in these movements has made the discussions and researches on social media even more important. According to some researchers, these movements which are coordinated through social media and spread to wide audiences are qualified as “social media revolutions”, and the experienced social reactions and opposition movements become the “tool of struggle” of the social media revolution. The interactive nature of social media means that the content may be fictionalized and shaped (produced again). That is, an active role is given to the audience who in the position of the receiver of the social media texts, but also exert an effect on them. It determines the agenda of the receiver (user) with the agenda that is shaped/ fictionalized while being a determinant of the content. Social media texts are the media text in which different discourses may occur together. Like other mass communication tools, meaning in social media is established within a hegemonic structure. Forming the meaning they are the opposite meanings. Due to its nature, social media is a tool which includes different meanings. In the texts with multi-meaning, the meaning is provided by using intertextuality, irony, metaphor, and simile.
This study is a language analysis. The size of the study is formed by how the language is organized, how the social movements are represented, for what kind of meaning it is used and how the social movements are perceived in social media from the point of view of the TEMA foundation. This study uses the Discourse Analysis technique to analyze the posts and shares by TEMA foundation between 28th May and 11th June 2013 as the Gezi Park rebellion started and its effect on the agenda.
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Sosyal medya ağları, siyasal iletişim uygulamalarını yeni bir boyuta taşımıştır. Web 2.0, siyasal... more Sosyal medya ağları, siyasal iletişim uygulamalarını yeni bir boyuta taşımıştır. Web 2.0, siyasal iletişimin geleneksel ikna ve motivasyon tekniklerini, kendi doğasına uygun olarak dönüştürmüştür. Bu dönüşüm,
siyasal iletişimde kullanılan eski bilgi ve enformasyon tekniklerini de önemli ölçüde etkilemiştir. Demokratik
katılım kültürüne katkı sağlayan alanlar olarak sosyal medyanın politik uyarlamaları, adayların sosyal medyada kendilerini sergilemeleri, seçim kazandıran stratejiler ve bu uygulamalarda sosyal medyanın rolü son
dönemdeki seçimlerde oldukça ilgi uyandırmıştır. ABD’de 8 Kasım 2016’da yapılan başkanlık seçimlerden
galip olarak çıkan Donald Trump, söylemleri kadar, sosyal medya kullanımı ve Twitter üzerinden yapmış olduğu paylaşımlarla da siyasal iletişimde sosyal medya döneminin etkilerini tüm dünyaya göstermiştir. Tüm bu
tartışmalar ışığında çalışmada, Twitter’ın siyasi seçimlerindeki rolü ele alınmış, bu amaçla, Donald Trump’ın
başkan adayı olduğu dönemde Twitter’da paylaşmış olduğu görsellerin göstergebilimsel analizi yapılarak,
çevrimiçi siyasetin düz ve yan anlamları irdelenmiştir.
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ARTICLES by Habibe Akcay Bekiroğlu
Media Literacy and Academic Research, 2023
This study’s aim is to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and socia... more This study’s aim is to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and social media addiction (SMA) in Communication undergraduate students in Turkey. In addition to EI, the impact of demographic variables and social media use habits on SMA were investigated. For the study, quantitative method was chosen, and an online questionnaire was conducted on 317 Communication undergraduate students in Turkey with 301 participants being the final sample from different cities in Turkey. As a result of the study, analyses indicated that EI and SMA were related at medium and low levels. The EI partly predicted SMA. It was determined with Path analysis that intrapersonal skills, dealing with stress and adaptability could be statistically significant predictors of SMA sub-dimensions virtual tolerance and virtual communication at a negative level, and time spent on social media, number of posts on social media could have a significant impact on students’ SMA at a positive level. This research differs from other research conducted in Turkey in terms of SMA being examined with the focus of EI.
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Emotional intelligence is a holistic structure that enables to define, control and manage their o... more Emotional intelligence is a holistic structure that enables to define, control and manage their own and others' emotions. In this study, it was studied how related is high or low intrapersonal skills, interpersonal skills and general mood, as a sign of emotional intelligence and social media addiction. Moreover, it was analyzed the effect of personal skills, interpersonal skills, the general mood on social media addiction and these variables the level of difference according to demographic features and social media use habits. The quantitative research design was chosen in the study and data was collected from 207 participants through a purposeful and convenient sampling method. Data was collected through a face-to-face survey in a classroom setting via structured questionnaire form, between 01-20 May 2019. According to collected data, it was determined that there is a negative relationship between intrapersonal skills, interpersonal skills and social media addiction relapse and conflict lower dimension; and there is no relationship between general mode and social media addiction lower dimensions. With the increase of intrapersonal and interpersonal skills relapse and conflict level decreases. Furthermore, it has been determined that personal skills are correlated with social media addiction scale total and affect social media addiction. The research is important in terms of its results and due to the limited research in the field.
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Turkish Studies, 2019
ÖZ Sosyal medya, özellikle gençlerin gündelik hayatının önemli bir bölümünü ele geçirmiştir. Bunu... more ÖZ Sosyal medya, özellikle gençlerin gündelik hayatının önemli bir bölümünü ele geçirmiştir. Bununla birlikte sosyal medyanın, gençlerin yaşantıları ve kurmuş olduğu ilişkiler üzerinde de belirleyici bir rol oynadığını söylemek mümkündür. Bu çalışmanın amacı, üniversite öğrencilerinin sosyal medyayı kullanma yoğunluğu ile şiddete olan eğilimleri arasındaki ilişkiyi ortaya koymaktır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda Buss-Perry'nin (1992) Saldırganlık Ölçeği'nin faktörleri olan fiziksel saldırganlık, öfke, düşmanlık, sözel saldırganlığın sosyal medya kullanım yoğunluğu ile ilişkisi belirlenmiştir. Ayrıca üniversite öğrencilerinin sosyal medya kullanım yoğunluğunu belirlemeye yönelik olarak Ellison ve diğerlerinin (2007) ölçeği Türkçeye uyarlanarak kullanılmıştır. Çalışmada anket yöntemi kullanılarak sosyal medya kullanım yoğunluğu ve saldırganlık arasındaki ilişki analiz edilmiştir. Değişkenlerle ölçeğin aracı toplam ve alt boyut puanları arasındaki farklılık Man-Whitney U ile Kruskal Wallis testi, sosyal medya kullanım yoğunluğu ile saldırganlık düzeyi arasındaki ilişki ise Spearman Korelasyon testi ile ölçülmüştür. Bu çalışma sonucuna göre katılımcıların sosyal medya kullanım yoğunluğu ve saldırganlık düzeyi cinsiyet, eğitim görülen fakülte ve sanal arkadaş sayısına göre değişmektedir. Sosyal medya kullanım düzeyi ile saldırganlık faktörü alt boyutlarından fiziksel saldırganlık, öfke, sözlü saldırganlık arasında ilişki bulunmazken düşmanlık alt boyutu ile ilişkilidir. Ayrıca saldırganlık faktörü alt boyutlarının birbiri ile pozitif yönde yüksek oranda ilişkili olduğu sonucu elde edilmiştir.
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ORTADOĞU’DA DEMOKRATİKLEŞME SÜRECİNDE YENİ MEDYANI by Habibe Akcay Bekiroğlu
Ortadoğu Arap coğrafyasında baskıcı ve totaliter rejimlerin halkı önemsemeyen, antidemokratik uygulamaları söz konusudur. Bunun sonucunda birikmiş halk öfkeleri tepkisel hareketlere dönüşmüş, yeni medya ise halkın kendini ifade etmesinde, bilgi sahibi olmasında ve aynı amaç için birlikte hareket etmesinde önemli bir araç rolünü üstlenmiştir. Uzun yıllardır hüküm süren baskıcı yönetimler kısa sürede devrilmiştir. Tüm bunlar demokratikleşme süreci açısından dikkate değerdir.
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Social movements are the products of the collective mind. Therefore, communication tools which support this collectivity are needed. As the organization of collective behavior becomes the main purpose, social media turns into a more important gathering place than the streets. On the other hand, it is possible to say that a new perception and interpretation process is achieved for participating in social movements with this new point of view. Unlike previous examples, the purpose of the new social movements is to have visible identities in the social area and maintain a specific lifestyle. In short, it is possible to explain the new social movements as the individual’s effort to exist and maintain their existence in daily life.
The Internet was originally created as a tool used by the military in the USA in 1969. Today it has become one of the main tools for almost one third of the world’s population (Szajkowski, 2011). According to Castells (2012/2013), communication technologies, particularly social media, play an efficient role in the construction of social movements. Castells reiterates the crucial role of wireless communication networks in the emergence of this new form of rebellion and its attempts to achieve its target.
Movements which are deemed as using social media efficiently include the
“Arab Spring”, a reaction to oppressive governments which occurs in Arabic geography particularly in Tunisia and Egypt; “Occupy Wall Street”, which emerged as the result of the anger against the finance world in the USA; the “Angry People’s Movement” in Spain which consists of unemployed young people who do not depend on any political movement; and the latest being the rebellions which started in “Taksim Gezi Park” and spread to nation-wide. The usage of social media as an efficient mobilization and coordination tool in these movements has made the discussions and researches on social media even more important. According to some researchers, these movements which are coordinated through social media and spread to wide audiences are qualified as “social media revolutions”, and the experienced social reactions and opposition movements become the “tool of struggle” of the social media revolution. The interactive nature of social media means that the content may be fictionalized and shaped (produced again). That is, an active role is given to the audience who in the position of the receiver of the social media texts, but also exert an effect on them. It determines the agenda of the receiver (user) with the agenda that is shaped/ fictionalized while being a determinant of the content. Social media texts are the media text in which different discourses may occur together. Like other mass communication tools, meaning in social media is established within a hegemonic structure. Forming the meaning they are the opposite meanings. Due to its nature, social media is a tool which includes different meanings. In the texts with multi-meaning, the meaning is provided by using intertextuality, irony, metaphor, and simile.
This study is a language analysis. The size of the study is formed by how the language is organized, how the social movements are represented, for what kind of meaning it is used and how the social movements are perceived in social media from the point of view of the TEMA foundation. This study uses the Discourse Analysis technique to analyze the posts and shares by TEMA foundation between 28th May and 11th June 2013 as the Gezi Park rebellion started and its effect on the agenda.
Conference Presentations by Habibe Akcay Bekiroğlu
siyasal iletişimde kullanılan eski bilgi ve enformasyon tekniklerini de önemli ölçüde etkilemiştir. Demokratik
katılım kültürüne katkı sağlayan alanlar olarak sosyal medyanın politik uyarlamaları, adayların sosyal medyada kendilerini sergilemeleri, seçim kazandıran stratejiler ve bu uygulamalarda sosyal medyanın rolü son
dönemdeki seçimlerde oldukça ilgi uyandırmıştır. ABD’de 8 Kasım 2016’da yapılan başkanlık seçimlerden
galip olarak çıkan Donald Trump, söylemleri kadar, sosyal medya kullanımı ve Twitter üzerinden yapmış olduğu paylaşımlarla da siyasal iletişimde sosyal medya döneminin etkilerini tüm dünyaya göstermiştir. Tüm bu
tartışmalar ışığında çalışmada, Twitter’ın siyasi seçimlerindeki rolü ele alınmış, bu amaçla, Donald Trump’ın
başkan adayı olduğu dönemde Twitter’da paylaşmış olduğu görsellerin göstergebilimsel analizi yapılarak,
çevrimiçi siyasetin düz ve yan anlamları irdelenmiştir.
ARTICLES by Habibe Akcay Bekiroğlu
Ortadoğu Arap coğrafyasında baskıcı ve totaliter rejimlerin halkı önemsemeyen, antidemokratik uygulamaları söz konusudur. Bunun sonucunda birikmiş halk öfkeleri tepkisel hareketlere dönüşmüş, yeni medya ise halkın kendini ifade etmesinde, bilgi sahibi olmasında ve aynı amaç için birlikte hareket etmesinde önemli bir araç rolünü üstlenmiştir. Uzun yıllardır hüküm süren baskıcı yönetimler kısa sürede devrilmiştir. Tüm bunlar demokratikleşme süreci açısından dikkate değerdir.
Social movements are the products of the collective mind. Therefore, communication tools which support this collectivity are needed. As the organization of collective behavior becomes the main purpose, social media turns into a more important gathering place than the streets. On the other hand, it is possible to say that a new perception and interpretation process is achieved for participating in social movements with this new point of view. Unlike previous examples, the purpose of the new social movements is to have visible identities in the social area and maintain a specific lifestyle. In short, it is possible to explain the new social movements as the individual’s effort to exist and maintain their existence in daily life.
The Internet was originally created as a tool used by the military in the USA in 1969. Today it has become one of the main tools for almost one third of the world’s population (Szajkowski, 2011). According to Castells (2012/2013), communication technologies, particularly social media, play an efficient role in the construction of social movements. Castells reiterates the crucial role of wireless communication networks in the emergence of this new form of rebellion and its attempts to achieve its target.
Movements which are deemed as using social media efficiently include the
“Arab Spring”, a reaction to oppressive governments which occurs in Arabic geography particularly in Tunisia and Egypt; “Occupy Wall Street”, which emerged as the result of the anger against the finance world in the USA; the “Angry People’s Movement” in Spain which consists of unemployed young people who do not depend on any political movement; and the latest being the rebellions which started in “Taksim Gezi Park” and spread to nation-wide. The usage of social media as an efficient mobilization and coordination tool in these movements has made the discussions and researches on social media even more important. According to some researchers, these movements which are coordinated through social media and spread to wide audiences are qualified as “social media revolutions”, and the experienced social reactions and opposition movements become the “tool of struggle” of the social media revolution. The interactive nature of social media means that the content may be fictionalized and shaped (produced again). That is, an active role is given to the audience who in the position of the receiver of the social media texts, but also exert an effect on them. It determines the agenda of the receiver (user) with the agenda that is shaped/ fictionalized while being a determinant of the content. Social media texts are the media text in which different discourses may occur together. Like other mass communication tools, meaning in social media is established within a hegemonic structure. Forming the meaning they are the opposite meanings. Due to its nature, social media is a tool which includes different meanings. In the texts with multi-meaning, the meaning is provided by using intertextuality, irony, metaphor, and simile.
This study is a language analysis. The size of the study is formed by how the language is organized, how the social movements are represented, for what kind of meaning it is used and how the social movements are perceived in social media from the point of view of the TEMA foundation. This study uses the Discourse Analysis technique to analyze the posts and shares by TEMA foundation between 28th May and 11th June 2013 as the Gezi Park rebellion started and its effect on the agenda.
siyasal iletişimde kullanılan eski bilgi ve enformasyon tekniklerini de önemli ölçüde etkilemiştir. Demokratik
katılım kültürüne katkı sağlayan alanlar olarak sosyal medyanın politik uyarlamaları, adayların sosyal medyada kendilerini sergilemeleri, seçim kazandıran stratejiler ve bu uygulamalarda sosyal medyanın rolü son
dönemdeki seçimlerde oldukça ilgi uyandırmıştır. ABD’de 8 Kasım 2016’da yapılan başkanlık seçimlerden
galip olarak çıkan Donald Trump, söylemleri kadar, sosyal medya kullanımı ve Twitter üzerinden yapmış olduğu paylaşımlarla da siyasal iletişimde sosyal medya döneminin etkilerini tüm dünyaya göstermiştir. Tüm bu
tartışmalar ışığında çalışmada, Twitter’ın siyasi seçimlerindeki rolü ele alınmış, bu amaçla, Donald Trump’ın
başkan adayı olduğu dönemde Twitter’da paylaşmış olduğu görsellerin göstergebilimsel analizi yapılarak,
çevrimiçi siyasetin düz ve yan anlamları irdelenmiştir.