How did domestic and foreign press represent the 2013 protests in Turkey? What was the role of social media and what lessons can we draw or learn from media, narratives and failures?

1. Esra Doğramacı
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Media &
(mis)representation
Turkey: 2013 protests

2. What is happening in Turkey?

4. versus

5. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22859959

6. Turkish Media Failure
Source: https://twitter.com/aycanarslan/status/342021804140924928/photo/1

7. Turkish Media Failure

8. Foreign Media Failure

9. Foreign Media Failure

10. …social media enters

11. What is news media?
1. Reporting = facts
2. Journalism = context
3. Analysis = (meaning)
Otherwise its ‘news requiring least effort’

12. 1. Beware of emotive language
2. Quantify (numbers) v. descriptions
3. Look at both sides
Lessons
Via @FatmaKilicaslan Via @BusraAkin

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