The symbol of social media in contemporary protest: Twitter and the Gezi Park movement

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dc.WoS.categoriesCommunicationen_US
dc.authorid0000-0002-7789-3834en_US
dc.contributor.authorErhart, Itır
dc.contributor.authorJenzen, Olu
dc.contributor.authorEslen-Ziya, Hande
dc.contributor.authorKorkut, Umut
dc.contributor.authorMcGarry, Aidan
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-11T08:15:14Z
dc.date.available2020-11-11T08:15:14Z
dc.date.issued2020-07
dc.description24 pagesen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article explores how Twitter has emerged as a signifier of contemporary protest. Using the concept of 'social media imaginaries', a derivative of the broader field of 'media imaginaries', our analysis seeks to offer new insights into activists' relation to and conceptualisation of social media and how it shapes their digital media practices. Extending the concept of media imaginaries to include analysis of protestors' use of aesthetics, it aims to unpick how a particular 'social media imaginary' is constructed and informs their collective identity. Using the Gezi Park protest of 2013 as a case study, it illustrates how social media became a symbolic part of the protest movement by providing the visualised possibility of imagining the movement. In previous research, the main emphasis has been given to the functionality of social media as a means of information sharing and a tool for protest organisation. This article seeks to redress this by directing our attention to the role of visual communication in online protest expressions and thus also illustrates the role of visual analysis in social movement studies.en_US
dc.fullTextLevelFull Texten_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1354856520933747en_US
dc.identifier.issn1748-7382
dc.identifier.issn1354-8565
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85087550252en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/2591
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/1354856520933747
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000546024100001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.nationalInternationalen_US
dc.numberofauthors5en_US
dc.publisherSage Publications Inc.en_US
dc.relation.ispartofConvergence-The International Journal Of Research Into New Media Technologiesen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectVisual communicationen_US
dc.subjectSocial media imaginariesen_US
dc.subjectTwitteren_US
dc.subjectOnline activismen_US
dc.subjectSocial mediaen_US
dc.subjectProtesten_US
dc.subjectAesthetics of protesten_US
dc.subjectGezi Parken_US
dc.titleThe symbol of social media in contemporary protest: Twitter and the Gezi Park movementen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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