Turkish Youth's (Re)Construction of their Political Identity in Social Media, before “Resistanbul”

2015 ◽  
pp. 1227-1248
Author(s):  
Tüge T. Gülşen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
High Sense

This chapter explores the political potential of social media widely used as a means of communication by Turkish young people and examines how they perceive social media as alternative social environments, where they can manifest their political identities. In addition, the study conducted aims at understanding whether the political situation in Turkey before the “Resistanbul” events, beginning toward the end of May 2013, created fear among young people that could cause them to hesitate to express their political thoughts or feel the need to veil their political identities. The results of the survey reveals that Turkish young people, despite having a high sense of freedom, tend to be politically disengaged in social media, and they seem to be hesitant to reveal their political identities in this alternative democratic social space, but they do not mind “others” manifesting their political identities.

Turkish Youth’s (Re)Construction of their Political Identity in Social Media, before “Resistanbul”

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tüge T. Gülşen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
High Sense

This chapter explores the political potential of social media widely used as a means of communication by Turkish young people and examines how they perceive social media as alternative social environments, where they can manifest their political identities. In addition, the study conducted aims at understanding whether the political situation in Turkey before the “Resistanbul” events, beginning toward the end of May 2013, created fear among young people that could cause them to hesitate to express their political thoughts or feel the need to veil their political identities. The results of the survey reveals that Turkish young people, despite having a high sense of freedom, tend to be politically disengaged in social media, and they seem to be hesitant to reveal their political identities in this alternative democratic social space, but they do not mind “others” manifesting their political identities.

scholarly journals Language, Social Media and Political Identity (Re)presentation: A New Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of Social Media Political Discourse

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Farhat Sajjad ◽  
Mehwish Malghnai ◽  
Durdana Khosa
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Political Ideologies

As language is central to all social processes and practices, so it is considered as the most effective tool for (re)shaping and (re)constructing the social realities and political identities as they are negotiated, (re)constructed and thus projected in the broader social and cultural contexts. Since the advent of new media technologies, particularly social media, the forms and modes of political identity construction and (re)presentations are also transformed. As debated earlier that language enables its users, specifically political actors, to exhibit the political ideologies and identities effectively, so the political actors frequently exploit these platforms to achieve their pre-defined political agendas. Within the same context the political rhetoric, specifically the ones that is generated and exhibited on social media network sites, offers a new visibility for the researchers to explore and predict how ideologies and perceptions can be achieved, advocated, altered and rebuilt through discursive discourse strategies on these networking sites. Providing the power of social media for political participation, political engagement and political activism, there is a need to design such framework that can offer a different lens for the analysis of critical yet sensitive issue of political identity (re)presentation beyond the textual level. To address the above debated issue a new theoretical framework is presented in this paper that enables to analyse the text with special reference to the context in which the political identities are negotiated, (re)constructed and (re)presented. This framework is designed by collaborating the approaches of CDA, Political Identity theory, Social Media theory and Political Discourse theory that enables to explore the interrelationship between the “language in use” and the context in which it is created and consumed. 

Youth Politics in Africa

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ransford Edward Van Gyampo ◽  
Nana Akua Anyidoho
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
National Level ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Youth Politics ◽  
Participation Decision ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The One ◽  
Media Channels

The youth in Africa have been an important political force and performed a wide range of roles in the political field as voters, activists, party members, members of parliament, ministers, party “foot soldiers,” and apparatchiks. Although political parties, governments, and other political leaders often exploit young people’s political activity, their participation in both local and national level politics has been significant. In the academic literature and policy documents, youth are portrayed, on the one hand, as “the hope for the future” and, on the other, as a disadvantaged and vulnerable group. However, the spread of social media has created an alternative political space for young people. Active participation of young people in politics through social media channels suggests that they do not lack interest in politics, but that the political systems in Africa marginalize and exclude them from political dialogue, participation, decision-making, and policy implementation. The solution to the problem of the exclusion of young people from mainstream politics would involve encouraging their participation in constitutional politics and their greater interest and involvement in alternative sites, goals, and forms of youth political activism in contemporary Africa.

Unofficial contentions: The postcoloniality of Straits Chinese political discourse in the Straits Settlements Legislative Council

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P.S. Goh
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The Political ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Legislative Council ◽  
British Rule

This paper reads the debates of the Straits Settlements Legislative Council to trace the political contentions over policies affecting the Chinese community in Malaya. These contentions brought the Straits Chinese unofficials to engage the racial ambivalence of British rule in Malaya, in which the Straits Chinese was located as both a liberal subject and an object of colonial difference. Contrary to conventional historiography which portrays Straits Chinese political identity as one of conservative loyalty to the Empire, I show that the Straits Chinese developed multiple and hybrid political identities that were postcolonial in character, which would later influence the politics of decolonisation and nation-building after the war.

scholarly journals Identiteit: 'n vlietende entiteit Die politieke invloed op die Israelitiese stamme gedurende die tyd van die Rigters

1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-328
Author(s):  
Magdel le Roux
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Settlement Period ◽  
Limited Space ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Unique Identity ◽  
History Of

AbstractPresent discussions about the history of Israel pay a great deal of attention to the question of Israel as an ethnic group with a prominent, distinguishable and unique identity. By means of empirical facts, this article aims to show that the Israelite tribes were subjected to many different and divergent influences during the settlement period which contributed towards their identity. Because of limited space this article will concentrate only on the political identity but it does not deny the other important historical dimensions pertaining to the discussion. The political situation is therefore an instrument to illustrate that ethnical identity is not shaped in a vacuum, but is dependent upon events taking place in their vicinity. They form part of an allencompassing process. The conclusion drawn from this discussion is that Israel should not be understood as an identifiable entity, because history does not allow existing identities to stagnate, but strives to affirm and to renew.

The Problem of Polarization

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-128
Author(s):  
Robert B. Talisse
Keyword(s):  
Polarization Effect ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Polarization Phenomenon ◽  
Group Interactions ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Polarization Dynamic ◽  
Belief Polarization

This chapter completes the diagnostic argument by showing how the political saturation of social space contributes to our vulnerability to belief polarization. Belief polarization is the phenomenon by which like-minded individuals transform into more extreme versions of themselves in the wake of group interactions. It is argued that as the belief polarization effect can be prompted by mere corroboration of one’s views (rather than by face-to-face group discussion), politically saturated social environments can generate within us extremity shifts simply in the course of everyday activities. The belief polarization phenomenon initiates a broader polarization dynamic that dissolves citizens’ democratic capacities.

Geographic Insights Into Political Identity

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Gilbert ◽  
Connie Yang
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Geographical Research ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Global Identities ◽  
The University

Moving away from the conventional geopolitical analyses of territory, states, and nations, geographical research is now focused on the ways that political identities are constituted in and through spaces and places at various sites and scales. Many geographers attend to how power gets articulated, who gets marginalized, and what this means for social justice. Poststructuralist theory problematized the fundamental premise that the literal subject is resolutely individual, autonomous, transparent, and all knowing. Feminist and critical race scholars have also insisted that the self is socially embedded and intersubjective, but also that research needs to be embodied. There are four prominent and inherently political themes of analysis in contemporary geographical research that resonate with contemporary events: nation states and nationalism; mobility and global identities; citizenship and the public sphere; and war and security. Geographers have critically examined the production and reproduction of national identity, especially salient with the rise of authoritarianism. Geographers have also focused on the contemporary transnationalization of political identity as the mobility of people across borders becomes more intensive and extensive because of globalization. Consequently, globalization and global mobility have raised important questions around citizenship and belonging. Rethinking war and the political, as well as security, has also become a pressing task of geographers. Meanwhile, there has been a growing attention to the political identities of academics themselves that resonates with a concern about forms of knowledge production. This concern exists alongside a critique of the corporatization of the university. Questions are being raised about whether academics can use their status as scholars to push forward public debate and policy making.

YouTube and bereavement vlogging: Emotional exchange between strangers

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Parental Death ◽  
Unexpected Finding ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Grief And Bereavement

Through a qualitative study of YouTube bereavement vlogs and posts by young people about parental death, this article examines the rise and significance of intimate mourning between strangers. An unexpected finding of this research has been the speed with which young people create vlogs or post messages of their bereavement; very often within hours of a death. The question of time in relation to bereavement grief is thus a feature of this article’s analysis. The article argues that YouTube, like other social media, exposes and contests the disenfranchising of grief in offline social settings and relationships while, at the same time, enfranchising disaffected and excluded bereavement discourse via media sociality. It also argues, conversely, that YouTube, like other social media, is now a primary social space (not secondary or supplementary); it provides the where and how and who to connect with regarding personal grief and bereavement.

scholarly journals Political and Civic Identity of Libertarians in Contemporary Russia: Problems and Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-569
Author(s):  
Denis A. Dumler
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
Broad Approach

Libertarianism is a new ideological trend, popular among young people. We try to find out whether libertarianism rises as independent political movement or it is the reaction on the fall of popularity of traditional political parties. For that purpose, the author made the comparative analysis of the program documents of the Libertarian Party of Russia with the classical works of the American libertarians and analyzed the published interview both of the party leaders/activists and of the experts. The author used the interview which he took from some activists in order to clarify the political identification of the Russian libertarians. The political identity of libertarians is characterized by the broadest possible interpretation of personal and economic freedom. Libertarians believe that such freedom is compatible with law and legality and is opposite to anarchy. At the same time, they avoid definitions and norms that could constrain freedom by both the state and the adherents of certain, including liberal, values and slogans. This broad approach makes it difficult to politically identify libertarians, but contributes to their attractiveness among young people.

scholarly journals Indonesia Leader Forum, post-truth and political interests in social media and television

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
Mariana Ulfah ◽  
Amadou Barry
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This paper aims to how Indonesian Leaders Forum (ILF) as a new talkshow program in Indonesia effort to increasing political interest of citizens. This research uses descriptive qualitative method with a case study of the ILF Program. By using descriptive method, the author can explain the background of the incident, some perspective on the event and analyze in depth. So the ILF can answer the public's concerns about the political situation in Indonesia today conclusion contains the main points of the article.

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