Occupation of Twitter during gezi movement in Turkey
Author
Kutay, Can
Advisor
Savaş, Özlem
Date
2015Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
This thesis will attempt to analyze the occupation of social networking site Twitter
by Gezi protestors just like any other offline public place like Gezi Park and the deoccupation
process of the same platform by the Pro-government users thus aiming to
break the linkage between “on” and” off” during Gezi protests in Turkey.
Throughout this struggle between opposite collectivities, the social networking sites
such as Twitter were defined as contested spaces that could be “freed” from the
protestors’ occupation like any offline public place.