Browsing by Subject "Inclusivity"

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Parents’ and children’s perception of restaurant inclusivity
(2021-07) Altıntepe, Büşra
Restaurants are public spaces which everyone has the equal right to access. It matters how inclusive the restaurants are for parents and children. However, the issue of restaurant inclusiveness from the family and child perspective has not been a frequent focus on previous studies. This study aims to understand how parents and children perceive restaurants’ inclusivity and to examine whether there are any differences in perceptions of them or not. Furthermore, it aims to see parents’ and children’s priorities in a restaurant with a comparative approach. Moreover, it addresses if there are any notable functions of the restaurant besides eating for parents and children. A mixed methodological approach was used for the study. An online questionnaire was conducted with 40 parents, one-to-one interviews were carried out with 60 children, and interviews were supported with a drawing method, including the drawings of 30 of the children who participated in the study. The findings of the study show that there are differences between the perceptions and priorities of the parents and children in a restaurant environment. Additionally, restaurants have other notable functions besides eating for parents’ and children. Especially children perceive the restaurant as a public space that allows them to play and socialize. Furthermore, children’s drawing analysis method was applied in a restaurant inclusivity context for the first time and confirmed that the use of mixed methodology is beneficial for children’s studies. This study helps to improve the knowledge about parent and child inclusivity in restaurant environments and also, it contributes to designers and restaurateurs regarding family inclusivity by offering recommendations and reasonable adjustments to increase inclusivity.
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Wise People Commission through national press representations: a peace journalism analysis
(2020-12) Aytemiz, Öykü Deniz
Inclusivity in peace processes is a norm that aims to engage marginalized actors and issues at different stages of a peace process. Previous studies show that inclusivity can contribute to the building of sustainable peace through creating transparency and accountability, garnering public support, and addressing legitimacy gaps. Through its agenda-setting power and mass communication platform, the media can enhance these functions of inclusivity and support the creation of a democratic debate that involves different segments of society. Based on this, this study analyzes how the national press in Turkey represented the activities and meetings of the Wise People Commission, which was a consultative inclusion mechanism that aimed to build a bridge between the public and negotiation parties in the peace process of Turkey (2009-2015). In order to do this analysis, this study uses a coding scheme based on Johan Galtung‟s peace and war journalism framework; and finds that peace journalism is overall more dominant in the sample of five daily national newspapers. The findings also suggest that rather than a conscious and knowledgeable peace journalism approach that can support the expected benefits of inclusivity, the news in the sample had a truth-based journalism approach that is driven by political party positions of the newspapers. The elite oriented representation of WPC suggests that the press discourse itself was exclusive to high politics, and this can be detrimental to the functions of inclusivity. Thus, the media debate around the Kurdish issue can be expanded in order to contribute to sustainable peace.