Understanding the Images of Alan Kurdi With "small Data": a Qualitative, Comparative Analysis of Tweets About Refugees in Turkey and Flanders (belgium)

dc.contributor.author Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
dc.contributor.author Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem
dc.contributor.author Smets, Kevin
dc.contributor.other New Media
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-25T18:01:34Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-25T18:01:34Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.department Fakülteler, İletişim Fakültesi, Yeni Medya Bölümü en_US
dc.description.abstract One of the peak moments of the debate on the European refugee crisis was caused by the circulation of images of Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned in the Aegean Sea on September 2, 2015. The images triggered worldwide reactions from politicians, nongovernmental organizations, and citizens. This article analyzes these reactions through a qualitative study of 961 tweets from Turkey and Flanders (Belgium), contextualizing them into the framing and representation of refugees before and after the images were released. Our study finds that, despite their iconic qualities and potential to mobilize Twitter users around refugee issues, the images did not cause a major shift in common discourses and representations. Instead, references to Kurdi were incorporated into preexisting discourses on and representations of refugees, thus offering different actors in the public debate on refugees with new symbols and motifs to construct meaning. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 32
dc.identifier.endpage 4069 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1932-8036 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1932-8036
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q1
dc.identifier.startpage 4046 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/3667
dc.identifier.volume 11 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000432428000001 en_US
dc.identifier.wosquality Q3
dc.institutionauthor Bozdağ Bucak, Çiğdem en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher USC Annenberg Press en_US
dc.relation.journal International Journal of Communication en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.subject Twitter en_US
dc.subject Social media en_US
dc.subject Refugees en_US
dc.subject Alan Kurdi en_US
dc.subject Qualitative content analysis en_US
dc.subject Turkey en_US
dc.subject Belgium en_US
dc.subject Flanders en_US
dc.title Understanding the Images of Alan Kurdi With "small Data": a Qualitative, Comparative Analysis of Tweets About Refugees in Turkey and Flanders (belgium) en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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