“As Reliable as a Kalashnikov Rifle”: How Sputnik News Promotes Russian Vaccine Technologies in the Turkish Twittersphere

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dc.WoS.categoriesCommunicationen_US
dc.authorid0000-0002-7538-2694en_US
dc.contributor.authorFurman, Ivo Ozan
dc.contributor.authorGürel, Kurt Bilgin
dc.contributor.authorSivaslıoğlu, Fırat Berk
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-21T06:47:24Z
dc.date.available2023-09-21T06:47:24Z
dc.date.issued2023-01
dc.description.abstractEstablished in 2014, SputnikTR (a localized version of Sputnik News) is the most popular pro-Russian media outlet active in Turkey. The news content published by SputnikTR's Twitter account currently attracts the highest engagement rates among the international public broadcasters active in Turkey. SputnikTR's official Twitter account has more followers (1M) than Sputnik News English (326K). This article argues that SputnikTR's Twitter account is used to promote Russian vaccine technologies in Turkey. We believe that it is also a conduit for the dissemination of pro-Russian as well as anti-Western narratives to the Turkish online public. Using a computational methodology, we collected 2,782 vaccine-related tweets posted by SputnikTR's Twitter account between April 2019 and April 2021. We deployed framing as well as critical discourse analysis to study the contents of our dataset. Our findings suggest that SputnikTR uses (a) disinformation as well as misinformation in vaccine-related news and (b) unethical communication techniques to maximize engagement with content posted on Twitter. Our findings are significant insofar as they are the first documented instances of Russian propaganda efforts on Turkish Twitter. These efforts seem to be focused on promoting the Russian vaccine while encouraging public hesitancy toward Western vaccine technologies.en_US
dc.fullTextLevelFull Texten_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/20563051221150418en_US
dc.identifier.issn2056-3051
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85147384000en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/5198
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221150418
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001061154900001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.issue1en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.nationalInternationalen_US
dc.numberofauthors3en_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publications Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofSOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETYen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectPUBLIC DIPLOMACYen_US
dc.subjectNETWORKED AUTHORITARIANISMen_US
dc.subjectMEDIAen_US
dc.subjectEraen_US
dc.title“As Reliable as a Kalashnikov Rifle”: How Sputnik News Promotes Russian Vaccine Technologies in the Turkish Twittersphereen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.volume9en_US

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