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- Title
Child Marriages: The Role of Twitter on the Child Marriages Problem in Turkey.
- Authors
Bayhantopçu, Ü. Esra
- Abstract
Child marriage is one of the major human rights problems in the world. Media is one of the most important tools to deal with this problem. This study intends to analyze the current portrayal of the child marriage problem on Twitter and examine the role of social media on this problem in Turkey. The presentation of the child marriage problem on Twitter is analyzed by examining the Twitter posts of 14 different accounts from the representatives of 4 different groups (5 newspapers, 3 government agencies 3 women's rights defenders, 3 NGOs working on children) for 5 different child marriage cases that occurred in Turkey. The sample is determined by using the purposive sampling method. Van Dijk's (1983) critical content and discourse analysis method is used for data analysis. 684 tweets for each case in the sample, shared on the day the cases happened and the following 8 days, were analyzed. According to the findings, the problem of child marriage in Turkey is not represented adequately on Twitter and the problem is not highlighted by the relevant groups. Despite the potential of social media to make the problem more visible, it has been observed that Twitter is not being used effectively to eliminate the child marriage problem in Turkey.
- Subjects
CHILD marriage; HUMAN rights; SOCIAL media; TWITTER (Web resource); NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations
- Publication
KADEM Journal of Women's Studies, 2021, Vol 7, Issue 2, p191
- ISSN
2149-4878
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21798/kadem.2022.57