Irkçılık Karşıtı Protestoların Sosyal Medyaya Yansıması: Barack Obama Örneği

Year 2020, Volume: 7 Issue: 26, 187 - 206, 28.10.2020

Metin Işık , Erdal Bilici

https://doi.org/10.29224/insanveinsan.787293

Abstract

Bölgesel olarak ortaya çıkan bir olayın küresel bir olaya dönüşümünde medya, ekonomi, siyaset ve toplumsal olaylar doğrudan rol oynamaktadır. Twitter’ın olayların değişmesinde ve dönüşmesinde etkili bir rol aldığı söylenebilir. Bu çalışmada, Minnesota’da, 25 Mayıs 2020 tarihinde George Floyd’un öldürülmesi olayının medya, ekonomi ve siyaset bağlamında ırkçılık karşıtı söylemler ve protestoların nasıl bir etki yarattığı ele alınmaktadır. ABD’nin eski siyasi lideri Barack Obama’nın Twitter’daki 25 Mayıs ve 25 Haziran arasındaki paylaşımları eleştirel söylem analizi metodu çerçevesinde incelenmiştir. Olaylarla ilgili ilk paylaşımın 29 Mayıs 2020’de olduğu ve son paylaşımın ise 16 Haziran 2020’de olduğu görülmektedir. Bu tarihler arasında ırkçılık karşıtlığıyla ve protestolarla ilgili on adet tweet paylaşılmıştır. Yapılan analiz sonucunda, ABD eski başkanı Barack Obama’nın olumlayıcı, teşvik edici bir dil kullandığı tespit edilmiştir. Protestolardaki gençlerin haksızlığa karşı seslerini yükseltmesinin, Barack Obama’ya göre değişimi başlatacak umut verici bir olay olduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

Söylem analizi, Irkçılık, Barack Obama, Protest, Twitter

Reflection of Anti-Racist Protests on Social Media: The Case of Barack Obama

Abstract

Media, economy, politics and social events play a direct role in the transformation of a regionally occurring event into a global event. Accordingly, Twitter plays an effective role in changing and transforming events. The murder of George Floyd in Minnesota on May 25, 2020; The impact of anti-racist rhetoric and protests in the context of media, economy and politics have been discussed. The tweets of former US political leader on Twitter between May 25 and June 25 were analyzed within the framework of the critical discourse analysis method. The first tweet on the events occurred on 29 May 2020 and the last tweet occurred on 16 June 2020. Ten tweets about anti-racism and protests were shared between these dates. As a result of, the former president of the US has used a positive and encouraging language. It was determined that young people in protests raised their voices against injustice.

Keywords

Discourse analysis, Twitter, Racism, Barack Obama, Protest

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