This article examines the Turkish State's recent practice of removing pro-Kurdish mayors
and appointing trustees in their place without holding new elections. By comparing previous …

For about four decades, social sciences scholars have more or less agreed on what
quantitative and qualitative methods could and could not do (Morgan, 2007). Qualitative …

This article examines tweets about state violence targeting student protesters at the
University of Cauca in December 2018. Its objective is accounting for the role of …

Despite hundreds of years of forced and violent assimilation from multiple sources, Kurds
continue to exist as dissidents, progressing their ethnonational and cultural ways of being …

Social media is a critical element of contemporary ecologies of violence, especially in
countries with a long-standing history of armed conflicts–such as Colombia, the setting of …

Drawing on the frameworks of peace journalism, this book offers new insights into the
Pakistani media coverage of Afghan refugees and their forced repatriation from Pakistan …

While political communication scholars usually debate whether the internet and social
media are democratizing forces for China, scarce attention has been given to the role of …

This article analyzes tweets in the Turkish language from November 2020 to May 2021 in
which Kurds are explicitly mentioned that feature negative animalization directed toward …

This research examines social media discourses to unravel how moral evaluation can be
used to legitimize and delegitimize state violence. Based on a Colombian case of police …

This article contributes to the existing literature on the populist online communication of
governments. We look at the role of the micro-blogging social media platform Twitter under …