Browsing by Author "Baş, Özen"
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Challenges and opportunities granted to Arab women by social media during the political upheavals between 2011 and 2018
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Publisher and Date:(Kadir Has University, 2020)Starting with 2011, the so-called Arab Spring threatened the authoritarian leaders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, enabling protesters to mobilize others to their cause and provide an effective tool for self-expression. The use of social media changed the demographic makeup of social movement participants in many countries. Of particular interest is the mobilization of women both online and offline. Literature have previously examined the impact of the use of social media ...
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The influence of electronic word-of-mouth on purchasing decisions of online consumers: The case of Airbnb users in Turkey
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Publisher and Date:(Kadir Has University, 2020)Airbnb is one of the most prominent online peer-to-peer companies in the short-term rentals business. The company works as a mediator between the host and the guest. The face-to-face interaction found in Airbnb entails more risks than other e-commerce platforms. Therefore, the heaviest burden on the company is to build trust among its users. The main goals of the study reported here are to examine the importance of online reviews found in the Airbnb, and the factors that increase the trust of the ...
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Use of Social Media in the Struggle Surrounding Violence Against Turkish Women
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Publisher and Date:(University of Southern California, 2020)Increasingly large numbers of women in Turkey have suffered abuse or lost their lives through attacks by men. In 2019 alone, 474 women were killed by men. Based on theories of connective action and affective publics, this study examines online activism regarding violence against Turkish women through a qualitative content analysis of Twitter messages with popular hashtags. Posts addressing six different cases of violent crimes directed at women that took place between 2015 and 2019 constituted the ...
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Who is responsible? The impact of emotional personalization on explaining the origins of social problems
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge, 2020)Personalization refers to the journalistic practice of including emotional case studies of ordinary people in news stories, increasing vividness and emotional charge of news and eliciting identification and empathy in news consumers. Previous research suggests that personalization of news stories increases collectivistic (compared with individualistic) causal attributions by the news audience. In response, an experiment was conducted with a week time delay between stimuli presentation and open-ended ...
