Ogan paper examines social media, protests
Professor Emerita Chris Ogan’s paper, “The ties that bind the diaspora to Turkey and Europe during the Gezi protests,” was published in New Media & Society Nov. 9.
The paper, which Ogan co-wrote with Roya Imani Giglou of University of Leuven and Leen d’Haenens of the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven, focuses on how the Gezi Park demonstrations in Turkey in the summer of 2013 reflected the role of social media in social movement.
The authors investigated whether respondents in the diaspora experienced communication-generated social capital, surveying 967 ethnic minorities in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. They also examined whether these minorities built connections with majority populations in these regions.
Ogan’s research interests combine information and communication technologies with international social and political issues, as well as gender equity in communication.
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