Defending the rainbow: The LGBTI+ community without a place in the Turkish public space in the twenty-first century-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Defending the rainbow: The LGBTI+ community without a place in the Turkish public space in the twenty-first century

Published:2023-07-01 Issue:2 Volume:8 Page:177-194
ISSN:2055-5695
Container-title:Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture
language:en
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Author:

Gümüş Burcu¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. ISNI: 0000000108423532 Doğuş University

Abstract

This study aims to discuss the virtual campaign of the dominant political power in Turkey and its supporters to keep the rainbow, the symbol of the LGBTI+ community, out of the public space via legal restrictions. It selected 1300 of the popular hashtags used in Turkey in 2020 – #Rainbow, #LGBTI, #TheRainbowisEverywhere, #BoycottLCWaikiki and #LCWaikiki, shared in Turkish and used between July and December 2020. It used the programme Python to obtain Twitter API links and Nvivo to perform a content analysis of these tweets, showing that the LGBTI+ community had used social media as an alternative public space in order to be heard.

Publisher

Intellect

Subject

Religious studies,Cultural Studies

Link

https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/qsmpc_00097_1?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf

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