duygu basaran sahin social media and politics in turkey: a mysterious relationship #digitalsociology
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Social Media and Politics in Turkey: A Mysterious Relationship
Duygu Basaran SahinThe Graduate Center, CUNY
February 27, 2015
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Gezi Park Protests
From the protests Gezi Park
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Photo credit: Osman Orsal/Reuters Source: showdiscontent.com
Allude to CNN Turk’s Indifference
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Photo credit: C. Mehmet Kösemen
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Former Primer Minister of Turkey
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Source: http://www.tccb.gov.tr/
“Social media is the worst menace to society”
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Where is Soma located?
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Soma Mine Disaster
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Source: Reuters
Abdullah Gül, Former President of Turkey
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Source: http://www.abdullahgul.gen.tr/
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Leader of the Opposition Party
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Source: www.chp.org.tr
Research Questions
Question 1: To what extent political figures’ reactions on Social media match their reactions in non-social/conventional media? Do news agencies with different political orientation react/behave differently on social media?
Data & method: 250 tweets, R’s TwitteR package, word clouds
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Official Twitter Accounts
Leader of the Opposition Party Former President of Turkey
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Official Twitter Accounts
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Research Questions
Question 2: What can Facebook comments tell us about the demographics of the commentators?
Data & method: 90 Facebook comments posted to CNN Turk’s and AA’s official Facebook pages, descriptive statistics
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Abdullah Gül, Former President of Turkey
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Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Leader of the Opposition Party
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CNN Turk
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Anadolu Ajansı
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Hürriyet
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Most Frequently Used Word
The Former President
Leader of Opposition
Party
CNN Turk AnadoluAjansı
Hürriyet
about Turkey Soma AA Soma
bicycle not In Soma Soma minute
Rome today mine Yıldız last
today let it be Erdogan minister custody
Tim (Cook) CHP custody energy Istanbul
Nice big about resources disaster
@anadoluajansi
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Facebook Comments
AA
• Video on the mine accident, its casualties and arrests
• 33 unique comments
CNN Turk
• Video by a surviving coalminer talking about poor work conditions
• 57 unique comments
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Gender Distribution of Commentators
Male65%
Female35%
Male76%
Female24%
CNN Turk AA
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41%
41%
14%
4%
62%
21%
13%
4%
Turkey urban
Turkey rural
Europe
Other
Where CNN Turk Respondents Say
They Live
Where AA Respondents Say
They Live
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Visits to Soma
The Former President’s visit to Soma
Opposition party leader’s visit to Soma
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Thank you!
Comments/suggestions/corrections are welcome.
@basaranduygu