Abstract
140journos is a Turkish grassroots media organization, which aimed to transform the Turkish society through its creative and semi-participatory journalism practices. In 2011, the co-founders came up with the idea of a citizen media outlet operating mainly on Twitter upon noticing that the mainstream media was politically biased in its news coverage. Since January 2017, they no longer engage in citizen journalism due to the political climate in Turkey where citizens became reluctant to share information. Instead, they create news content based on photojournalism on specific issues and publish through visually dominant formats such as videos and mini photo documentaries. In this chapter, I discuss 140journos’ unethical media practices and their impact on the ethics of my research, such as controlled communication channels between the field researcher and the participants, as well as fear among participants of speaking out due to possible future repercussions. In this context, I reflect upon the ways in which a researcher might conduct reliable research without reproducing and complying with unethical practices of the media outlet.
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“Conservative Democrat,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=199&v=sreUi-ahVdw, 140journos, 25 August 2017.
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“How to prepare a 140journos documentary?” https://www.facebook.com/140journos/photos/a.495839613778499/3095246017171166/?type=3&theater, 140journos, 30 December, 2019
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“Yratıcı Fikirler Enstitüsü,” https://enstitu.com.tr/.
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A flash mob is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, and then quickly disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, and artistic expression.
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“Emniyete gore, Gezi Parkı şüphelilerinin yüzde 78’i Alevi!” T24, 25 November 2013, http://t24.com.tr/haber/gezide-kac-eylem-gerceklesti-kac-kisi-goz-altina-alindi,244706.
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Collective actions frames have three major components—injustice, identity, and agency. The latter defines the belief in the possibility of changing conditions through collective actions.
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Hashtag is a type of tag used on social networks such as Twitter and other micro blogging services, allowing users to apply dynamic, user-generated tagging that makes it possible for others to easily find messages with a specific theme or content.
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Headed by Chief of the General Staff Kenan Evren, this coup d’état was carried out under the pretext of stopping the violent conflict between far right and far left activist.
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Tuncel, G. (2020). Researcher Ethics: Between Axiological Reasoning and Scientific Discussion. In: Jeppesen, S., Sartoretto, P. (eds) Media Activist Research Ethics. Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44389-4_9
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