The new communicative affordances of online spaces have transformed the ways and
domains we build and negotiate meaning. At the same time, they have introduced diverse …

This study analyzes social media representations of refugees in Turkey and discusses their
role in shaping public opinion. The influx of millions of Syrian refugees in Turkey has created …

This article discusses whether it is possible to frame anti-refugee discourse on social media
as a form of populism by analysing the case study of the hashtag# …

This article argues that digital publics unleash and bolster everyday racism, creating an
unregulated space where anonymity and ubiquity enable the dissemination of racist …

As the number of refugees in Türkiye continues to grow, the constructed discourse of
welcoming refugees with open arms has weakened, transforming the image of refugees …

This article constitutes a big data study of Twitter during the peak of the so-called refugee
crisis in the period between October 2015 and May 2016. The article analyzed almost 7.5 …

In this study, I examine the online discourse of the European refugee crisis on the micro-
blogging platform, Twitter. Specifically, I analyze 100 tweets that include# …

One of the peak moments of the debate on the European refugee crisis was caused by the
circulation of images of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Aegean …

Examining the relationship between social media, anti-gender and everyday polarisation,
this article identifies the ways social media platforms reflect the mundane amidst the …

This study aims to recognize the possible role of social media in forming xenophobia and
hate speech against Syrian refugees and to understand the reinforcing causes and negative …