Echo-Politics: Political Fragmentation, Echo Chambers and Polarization in Online Turkish Society
Year: 2023
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Online political fragmentation, echo chambers and polarization have been attracting a particular attention in political sciences and new media studies, especially performing data-driven analyzes on different countries.However, despite its population and dense political agenda, research on Turkey in this field has been lacking.In this thesis, focusing on Twitter which is one of the popular platforms for online political communications in the country, retrieving and analyzing up to tens of millions of tweets, indicators are found suggesting a considerable degree of fragmentation, echo chambers and polarization.
Authors: OZAYDIN, SEVAL YURTCICEK, Yurtcicek Ozaydin, Seval
Language: English
Topic: Social Media and Politics
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Tokyo Institute of Technology
OpenAlex ID: W7037499730