On October 17, 2014, three teenage girls from Denver, Colorado—two sisters and their
friend—boarded a flight to Frankfurt, Germany, planning to continue from there to Syria …

The European refugee crisis received heightened attention at the beginning of September
2015, when images of the drowned child, Aylan Kurdi, surfaced across mainstream and …

One day in June last year, a Turkish journalist working at the BBC World Service was
surprised to find her name on the top of “trending topics”, a list generated by the users of the …

Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which came on the heels of violent domestic protests in
January 2022, elicited powerful reactions in postsocialist Kazakhstan. For the past thirty …

Abstract In April and May 2007 two female suicide bombers affiliated with the Kurdistan
Workers' Party (Partiya Karkerana Kurdistan), a Kurdish guerilla organization listed as a …

Social media are usually associated with democratic political changes in authoritarian
countries. However, authoritarian regimes have also learned to control the use of social …

Sosyal ağlar, daha fazla bilginin kolay ve verimli bir şekilde taşınmasına ve yayılmasına
olanak veren ve kullanımı giderek artan etkili platformlardır. Bununla birlikte, mobil tabanlı …

This paper examines critically the role of the viral images spread through social media in the
development of the Gezi movement in Turkey. On May 31, 2013, a small scale …

The war in Syria has been covered extensively in the media. Yet, it seems the conflict had all
but been forgotten when the story of Bana Alabed surfaced on Twitter. Deploying digital …

Abstract The photo of Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian child who drowned after shipwrecking with his
family, awakened international public concern in the face of a crisis that had already been …