Digital Archives: How Western Newspapers Frame Our Remembrance of the Gezi Park Protest-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Digital Archives: How Western Newspapers Frame Our Remembrance of the Gezi Park Protest

Published:2023-12-01 Issue:2 Volume:17 Page:123-144
ISSN:2570-5857
Container-title:Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics
language:en
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Author:

Sreepada Nihar¹,Aksoy Ahmet²

Affiliation:

1. Manship School of Mass Communication , Louisiana State University , Journalism Building Baton Rouge , LA , USA

2. Division of Business, Leadership, & Communication , Columbia College – SC, U.S.A. , 1301 Columbia College Dr. , Columbia , USA

Abstract

Abstract We analyze the coverage of the Gezi Park protests by two major Western newspapers—The New York Times and The Guardian—through the lens of media framing, rhetoric, and collective memory. We argue that these digital archives frame Turkey’s Gezi Park protests as a challenge to an authoritarian government by promoting the themes of unrest as a conflict of ideologies, oppression of citizens, and the park as a site of memory. In a concluding section, we focus on the significance of digital archives as repositories of collective memory and the role of media framing in shaping these reconstructions of events in the past.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Sociology and Political Science,History,Cultural Studies

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/jnmlp-2023-0012

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