The End of the Habermassian Ideal? Political Communication on Twitter During the 2017 Turkish Constitutional Referendum

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dc.authoridFurman, Ivo/0000-0002-7538-2694
dc.authorwosidFurman, Ivo/AAU-4076-2021
dc.contributor.authorFurman, Ivo
dc.contributor.authorTunc, Asli
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:40:03Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:40:03Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractWith increasing attention devoted to automated bot accounts, fake news, and echo chambers, how much of the theory of a Habermassian public sphere is still applicable to social media? Drawing on Twitter data collected on April 16, 2017, during the night of Turkey's 2017 Constitutional Referendum, we test whether the networks of political communication resemble the communicative structures characteristic of Habermas's public sphere. The referendum left the country sharply divided; 51.4 percent of the electorate voted in favor of amending the constitution to grant sweeping new executive powers to the presidency, with an overall turnout of 85.46 percent. In this article, we examine whether Twitter users were meaningfully engaged on the night of the referendum, and if their communicative patterns resembled a networked public sphere, that is, a space where information and ideas are exchanged, and public opinion is formed in a deliberative, rational manner. We find ideological uniformity, polarization, and partisan antipathy to be especially evident-mirroring existing social tensions in Turkey. Rather than resembling a public sphere, we found Twitter users to be more likely to communicate on the basis of homophily-rather than to engage in democratic debate or establish a common ground between the two campaigns.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/poi3.218
dc.identifier.endpage331en_US
dc.identifier.issn1944-2866
dc.identifier.issue3en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85089180114en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage311en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.218
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/6946
dc.identifier.volume12en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000479722800001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPolicy and Interneten_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectTwitteren_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectReferendaen_US
dc.subjectPublic Sphereen_US
dc.subjectPolitical Communicationen_US
dc.subjectPolarizationen_US
dc.subjectSocial Network Analysisen_US
dc.subjectHabermasen_US
dc.subjectGeneral-Electionsen_US
dc.subjectPolarizationen_US
dc.subjectDemocracyen_US
dc.subjectDynamicsen_US
dc.subjectMediaen_US
dc.subjectMisinformationen_US
dc.subjectNetworkingen_US
dc.subjectCampaignsen_US
dc.subjectBirdsen_US
dc.titleThe End of the Habermassian Ideal? Political Communication on Twitter During the 2017 Turkish Constitutional Referendumen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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