Political Polarisation on Social Media: Competing Understandings of Democracy in Turkey

dc.authorid Turkoglu, Didem/0000-0001-6843-0232
dc.authorid Tunaoglu, Doruk/0000-0002-3856-8545
dc.authorid Odabas, Meltem/0000-0001-6123-0676
dc.authorid Yavas, Mustafa/0000-0002-2777-1986
dc.authorwosid Turkoglu, Didem/AAC-1844-2022
dc.contributor.author Turkoglu, Didem
dc.contributor.author Türkoğlu, Didem
dc.contributor.author Odabas, Meltem
dc.contributor.author Tunaoglu, Doruk
dc.contributor.author Yavas, Mustafa
dc.contributor.other Core Program
dc.date.accessioned 2023-10-19T15:12:24Z
dc.date.available 2023-10-19T15:12:24Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.department-temp [Turkoglu, Didem] Kadir Has Univ, I?stanbul, Turkey; [Odabas, Meltem] Bogazici Univ, Dept psychol, Istanbul, Turkey; [Yavas, Mustafa] New York Univ Abu Dhabi, Div Social Sci, Abu Dhabi, U Arab Emirates; [Turkoglu, Didem] Kadir Has Univ, Core program, Kadir Has Cd, TR-34083 Istanbul, Turkey en_US
dc.description.abstract Heightened political polarisation threatens democratic stability. While prior studies find polarisation in competing groups' deployment of different terminologies to describe the same topic, we emphasise that it can also be evident in groups' attachment of different meanings to the same terminology. Competition for dominance in the public sphere is reflected in social media which become sites of contestation, showcasing antagonistic claims of legitimacy. In a case-study of the June 2019 rerun Istanbul elections in Turkey, we used qualitative and computational methods to analyse approximately 116,000 tweets, focusing on discussions around the themes of 'democracy', 'elections', and 'public service'. Twitter users associated the act of casting a vote not only with electing the candidate, but also with a competition over the future of Turkish democracy. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 1
dc.identifier.doi 10.1080/13608746.2023.2200901 en_US
dc.identifier.endpage 251 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1360-8746
dc.identifier.issn 1743-9612
dc.identifier.issue 2 en_US
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dc.identifier.scopusquality Q1
dc.identifier.startpage 223 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2023.2200901
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/5434
dc.identifier.volume 27 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000980299900001 en_US
dc.identifier.wosquality Q1
dc.khas 20231019-WoS en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd en_US
dc.relation.ispartof South European Society and Politics en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
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dc.subject Parties En_Us
dc.subject Mobilization En_Us
dc.subject Engagement En_Us
dc.subject Populism En_Us
dc.subject Protest En_Us
dc.subject Crisis En_Us
dc.subject Turkish politics en_US
dc.subject elections en_US
dc.subject Parties
dc.subject 2019 Istanbul elections en_US
dc.subject Mobilization
dc.subject political discourse en_US
dc.subject Engagement
dc.subject Twitter en_US
dc.subject Populism
dc.subject computational text analysis en_US
dc.subject Protest
dc.subject hashtag analysis en_US
dc.subject Crisis
dc.subject public service en_US
dc.title Political Polarisation on Social Media: Competing Understandings of Democracy in Turkey en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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