The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey

dc.authoridVarol, Onur/0000-0002-3994-6106
dc.authoridBas, Ozen/0000-0002-8895-9704
dc.authoridVarol, Onur/0000-0002-3994-6106
dc.authorwosidVarol, Onur/L-7749-2014
dc.authorwosidBas, Ozen/AAM-8969-2020
dc.authorwosidVarol, Onur/T-6764-2019
dc.contributor.authorBaş, Özen
dc.contributor.authorOgan, Christine L. L.
dc.contributor.authorVarol, Onur
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-19T15:12:32Z
dc.date.available2023-10-19T15:12:32Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.department-temp[Bas, Ozen] Kadir Has Univ, New Media, Istanbul, Turkey; [Bas, Ozen] Kadir Has Univ, Sch Commun, TR-34083 Istanbul, Turkey; [Ogan, Christine L. L.] Indiana Univ, Media School, Bloomington, IN USA; [Ogan, Christine L. L.] Indiana Univ, Luddy Sch Informat Comp & Engn, Bloomington, IN USA; [Varol, Onur] Sabanci Univ, Fac Engn & Nat Sci, Istanbul, Turkeyen_US
dc.description.abstractEvidence that women have paid the price of what has been labeled the shadow pandemic is found in the increase in violence against them. The rates of femicide and lack of trust in the Turkish judicial system of the authoritarian government are worrisome. Protests have been made in the streets and through social media in response. Our goal was to determine the role of legacy news media and social media in bringing awareness of the femicide issue to the public and how affective publics function surrounding a relatively unaddressed societal problem using datasets created by women's organizations. We conducted a content analysis on 150 sampled femicide cases in Turkey before and during the pandemic taken from online news sources. We investigated the quality of traditional news media coverage and the volume of social media users expressing emotional reactions to individual femicides over time. Results suggest that the journalistic performance of covering the issue of femicide fails to detail essential facts, and awareness and concern for the issue are evident in the Likes, retweets, shares, and expressions of emotional engagement provided to the victims, while online reactions to femicide have increased substantially since 2019, contributing to the formation of affective publics. The study makes a conceptual contribution to the understanding of legacy media and social media's roles in spurring public engagement about serious social problems in autocratic political contexts while advancing the methodological tools of combining social scientific techniques with computational ones.en_US
dc.identifier.citation1
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/20563051221138939en_US
dc.identifier.issn2056-3051
dc.identifier.issue4en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85142686972en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221138939
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/5469
dc.identifier.volume8en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000927942400001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.khas20231019-WoSen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofSocial Media + Societyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectcontent analysisen_US
dc.subjectFacebookEn_Us
dc.subjectdata analysisen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectfemicidesen_US
dc.subjectShareEn_Us
dc.subjectsocial mediaen_US
dc.subjectissue awarenessen_US
dc.subjectFacebook
dc.subjectpublic engagementen_US
dc.subjectShare
dc.subjectaffective publicsen_US
dc.titleThe Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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