Abstract
This chapter revisits the issue of media representation of gender-based violence with a focus on social media on the Istanbul Convention in Turkey. After summarizing the similar anti-gender debates and policies throughout the world, the chapter first reviews the research literature on gender, violence, and the media. Then, the historical context of the Istanbul Convention in Turkey is summarized. The analysis of Twitter reveals that a wide coalition of feminists, the LGBTQI movement, leftists, and social democrats defend the right to live while pro-AKP and pro-Erdoğan Islamist populists frame the issue as a crisis of family and traditional values with the conspiracy about the West. After discussing the research findings, the chapter ends by listing the future challenges.
This chapter, initially submitted in March 2021, was reviewed in June 2021 following the changes relating to the Istanbul Convention in Turkey. The TCAT data used in the final part of the chapter is taken from the data being prepared for the SFB 1472 Transformationen des Populären project at Siegen University, supported by DFG Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft. I would like to thank PhD student Lena Teigeler for her support in understanding TCAT tool.
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TCAT: The Digital Methods Initiative Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolset (DMI-TCAT) is a digital research toolset used by researchers to retrieve and collect tweets from Twitter. For more details, see Borra and Rieder (2014).
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The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) is part of the Media Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. It is a research hub on digital methods for Europe-wide internet studies research groups. They develop digital research tools and produce collaborative research to analyze online environments and social media platforms.The summer and winter schools organized every year by DMI allow participants to produce hands-on activities, try tools and produce new research tools in a collaborative environment. The author is one of the participants in their winter school. For more details about the DMI, see https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/.
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Bek, M.G. (2023). Gender, Violence, Populism and (Social) Media in Turkey. In: Williamson Sinalo, C., Mandolini, N. (eds) Representing Gender-Based Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13451-7_11
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