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Gezi in the Center and Periphery the Protests as Communicated by the Turkish Media

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In the Aftermath of Gezi

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This study investigates the role of English-speaking Turkish media in accounting for the protests in Taksim. We applied a combined quantitative and qualitative methodology to five highly accessed online newspapers, with the aim of exploring how events were reported to the international audience. The resulting picture reveals a variety of media discourses, dominated though by a lack of analyses of the motivations for the protest: Gezi is not portrayed as having potential to be a fully democratic, national mobilization. References to other contemporary social movements are made instrumentally, in accordance with the newspaper’s editorial line. We conclude that while mainstream media did not transmit the “message” of the protest beyond Gezi, social networks have reconnected the center and the periphery of the social movement.

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  1. Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

    Erliza López Pedersen

  2. Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Marco Zoppi

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    Oscar Hemer

  2. Department of Communication, Business Information Technologies, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Hans-Åke Persson

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Pedersen, E.L., Zoppi, M. (2017). Gezi in the Center and Periphery the Protests as Communicated by the Turkish Media. In: Hemer, O., Persson, HÅ. (eds) In the Aftermath of Gezi. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51853-4_8

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