Environment as Politics: Framing the Cerattepe Protest in Twitter

Doğu, Burak

doi:10.1080/17524032.2017.1406384

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“…In between the year of 2013 to 2014, Twitter users have been discussing on real world problems; environment issues as stated by Iman et al (2017). This is also supported by Doğu (2017) whereby it stated that Twitter play an important role in covering issues that are not reported by mainstream media. As a result, the environmental protests on Cerattepe, Turkey, has been successful.…”

Section: Environment On Twittermentioning

confidence: 81%

Eco-Activist Social Media Influencers (SMI) on Twitter: Does Credibility Matter?

Ahmad Mijar,

Mazinina

2021

IJOHS

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The emergence of social media specially twitter plays a significant role in today’s era. The bond between people and their smartphones is also inseparable. The first thing that people would do when they wake up is to check their phones. This leads to the deprivation of people watching television. People have now turn to Twitter for any news or trends that are occurring and substitute the physical newspaper. With the vast number of users on social media, Social Media Influencers (SMI) have also been influencing others by their opinions or expertise. However, with all the technologies and changing that are going on, environment still suffers from these man-made developments. Therefore, this paper seeks to understand how the eco-activist SMI create awareness on environment on Twitter. Using Social Credibility Theory, a qualitative content analysis of eco activist SMI twitter accounts was conducted. The findings indicate that trustworthiness, expertise and active online presence are salient features of an eco-activist SMI when communicating environmental messages through twitter.

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Section: Environment On Twittermentioning

confidence: 81%

Eco-Activist Social Media Influencers (SMI) on Twitter: Does Credibility Matter?

Ahmad Mijar,

Mazinina

2021

IJOHS

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“…Interestingly, the external politicization of the protests also happened through the opposition parties. For instance, a network analysis of social media use against the Cerattepe mining project finds that most tweets on the issue are from the accounts affiliated with the opposition party, CHP (Doğu, 2017). During our interview, Karahan explained that despite the prominent use of social media accounts to protest the project, some members of the Artvin CHP provincial office contracted business deals with Cengiz Holding after the project started.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…The increasing number of extractive projects has led to a rise in grievancedriven local environmental activism in the last several decades in Turkey (Adaman and Arsel, 2005;Adem, 2005;Doğu, 2017;Knudsen, 2016;Özkaynak et al, 2015). Despite their growth in numbers, the grassroots resistance to environmentally destructive development projects faces several significant challenges.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Struggle to Keep Environmental Protests Above Party Politics: The Cerattepe Case

Karakoç

SOYLEMEZ-KARAKOC²

2023

Alternatif Politika

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The Cerattepe mining project for the extraction of gold and copper in the city of Artvin has been controversial since the mid-1980s. Local resistance against the project peaked in 2015-2016 in the form of blockages, sit-ins, social media protests, litigations, and signed petitions. This paper analyzes protests against the Cerattepe mining project in terms of their motivations, strategies, limitations, and political perceptions. Through an original survey analysis (N=253) and interview data, we find that the locals frame their activism as above party politics to keep a legitimate position in resisting the mining project. This strategy has remained intact for several years despite the politicization attempts of resistance from national-level political parties. We explain this strategy with the national consensus on prioritizing economic growth over environmental issues, neoliberal developmentalism with strong state support for private companies, and high levels of political polarization in society. Overall, the study offers an understanding of the challenges in front of environmental issue-based activism in Turkey and reveals the strategies of locals in resisting an environmentally destructive mining project.

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“…During environmental protests against the operation of the Cerattepe gold mine in Turkey in 2016, the protest network on social media adopted the framing of political economic and environmental justice. Those frames indeed fostered stable connections between activist groups (Doğu, 2019). Findings on the 2014 Colombian presidential election suggested a radical difference between the focus of journalists and the public on Twitter.…”

Section: Literature Review Framing Theorymentioning

confidence: 97%

“Make A-meme-rica Great Again!”:

Tran

2022

SMC

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Via a content analysis of 491 internet memes posted within the #maga and #trump2020 network on Twitter during the 2020 US presidential election, this study determined (1) who did the memes target, (2) how were the targets portrayed in the memes, and (3) what were the main themes, or ideas, of the internet memes posted within the community. Findings suggested that the community surrounding the #maga and #trump2020 hashtags primarily employed internet memes to express grassroots support for Donald Trump, his allies, Republican politicians, and conservatives. At the same time, they attempted to create an unfavorable, sometimes menacing, portrayal of Joe Biden, his allies, Democratic politicians, and liberals. Findings, as well as the political participation of internet memes during the election, were discussed.

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Environment as Politics: Framing the Cerattepe Protest in Twitter

Cited by 13 publications

References 29 publications

Eco-Activist Social Media Influencers (SMI) on Twitter: Does Credibility Matter?

Eco-Activist Social Media Influencers (SMI) on Twitter: Does Credibility Matter?

A Struggle to Keep Environmental Protests Above Party Politics: The Cerattepe Case

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