Social Media and Politics in Turkey - A Journey Through Citizen Journalism, Political Trolling, and Fake

This book examines Turkey's recent political past through focusing on particular digital media practices such as citizen journalism, political trolling and fake news circulation.

List of contents

Chapter 1: A History of Turkey's Internet
Chapter 2: A Turning Point: "¿nternetime Dokunma" March
Chapter 3: The emergence of Citizen Journalism
Chapter 4: A Major Turning Point: Occupy Gezi
Chapter 5: Civic Emergences in the post-Gezi Period
Chapter 6: Early Models for Political Trolls
Chapter 7: The State of Fake News in Turkey

About the author

Erkan Saka is associate professor of media and journalism studies at Bilgi University.

Summary

This book examines Turkey’s recent political past through focusing on particular digital media practices such as citizen journalism, political trolling and fake news circulation.

Product details

• Authors: Erkan Saka
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498591379
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9137-9
• No. of pages: 140
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Politics & government