Turkey’s news media landscape in Twitter: Mapping interconnections among diversity

Abstract

Twitter plays a substantial role in shaping the online news media landscape, which is established on the interconnections between various actors. This research conducts network analysis in Twitter with the aim to explore Turkey’s polarized news media landscape in the aftermath of the Gezi protests. The findings, based on a relational approach, are analyzed at four levels: identifying the actors, positioning the actors and examining connections among their clusters, exploring the patterns of news diffusion, and reviewing media polarization. It has been found that distinct conditions such as intermedia differences apply to each one of those levels, while polarization is evident in the network.

The “Ambassadorial” Journalist: Twitter as a Performative Platform for Ultra-Orthodox Journalists during the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…First, it sheds light on ultra-Orthodox journalists’ professional ethos, suggesting they not only preserve community values—as the literature suggests (Golan and Mishol-Shauli 2018 ; Wasserman and Gabel 2019 )—but also protect their community from outside threats to life, rights, and a dignified existence. Second, this study contributes to understanding the vital role Twitter can play in journalistic work owing to its inter-social interactivity—pointing to a new type of connectedness and collaboration (Dogu 2020 )—and its potential in enabling capabilities and particularly the capability “to be secure.” Thus, social media such as Twitter can be more suitable for public persuasion and information owing to its unique affordances in comparison with traditional media venues (Gil de Zuniga et al. 2018 ).…”

Network Model for Online News Media Landscape in Twitter

“…More specifically, this study proposes a methodology to build and analyze the network of online news media in Twitter based on follower overlap data. As shown in previous studies of audience networks [9,10,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24], audience overlap among news sources offer important insights on how the audiences navigate through many news sources that are available online. In the context of the Twitter environment, follower overlap between news media accounts can be interpreted as follows.…”

“…However, these studies disregard a number of important things, such as edge weight that represents the strength of the overlap, and there was no assessment of the statistical significance of the observed overlap. More recent research has proposed some methodological improvements to the original approach [9,10,[19][20][21][22][23][24].…”

Medya Etkileri ve Siyasal İletişim Çalışmalarında Büyük Veri Analizi, Yeni Trendler ve Güncel Araştırma Yöntemleri Üzerine Literatür Değerlendirmesi

“…Türkiye'de son dönemde gerçekleştirilen medya etkileri ve siyasal iletişim araştırmalarında hem belli bir süre benzer tipte haberlere maruz kalmanın bireylerin tutumları üzerindeki etkisini ölçen deneysel çalışmalar (Melek ve Uluçay, 2019), hem de Twitter'da haber medyasının kutuplaşmasını ortaya koyan ve Twitter ile haber medyası gündemlerini kıyaslayan büyük veri ile gerçekleştirilmiş çalışmalar ön plana çıkmaktadır (Doğu, 2020;Doğu ve Mat, 2019;Melek, 2017).…”

“…Ağ gündem belirleme konusunda ise Türkiye'den yapılan uluslararası çalışmalar henüz Twitter içeriği ile sınırlıdır (Doğu ve Mat, 2019;Doğu, 2020). Daha çok kutuplaşma kavramı üzerinden teorik çerçevesi çizilen bir çalışmada ana akım ve alternatif medya kuruluşlarının Twitter'daki hesaplarına ağ analizi uygulanarak medyadaki kutuplaşma tespit edilmiştir (Doğu, 2020). Siyasi aktörler ve medya kuruluşlarının Twitter hesapları üzerine yapılan başka bir ağ analizi çalışmasında 2.2 milyonluk büyük veri analiz edilmiştir (Doğu ve Mat, 2019).…”