This article examines the dissemination of images of mutilated and humiliated dead bodies
of 'others' and reactions of Twitter users to these images as dehumanizing practices. When …

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 …

During the urban clashes between Kurdish militants and Turkish state forces in 2015-2016,
young politicized social media users in Istanbul witnessed and experienced political …

Protest movements have been galvanized recently by social media and are commonly, and
somewhat hyperbolically, referred to by mainstream media as “Twitter revolutions.” This …

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 …

Increasingly large numbers of women in Turkey have suffered abuse or lost their lives
through attacks by men. In 2019 alone, 474 women were killed by men. Based on theories of …

On the weekend of 1–3 April 2022, Western media sources broke news of a number of
civilian corpses uncovered in Bucha, a satellite town to the northwest of Kyiv from which …

Symbols are primarily used by diplomatic actors to better project the core ideas behind
certain political initiatives. Author defines symbolic violence as a practice, manifested in …

Social uprisings clearly show that social media tools, especially Twitter, help news spread
more than the press does recently. In some cases Twitter substitutes traditional media if …

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