Ogan work on social protest in journal
Professor Emerita Chris Ogan is author of “Challenges of conducting survey research related to a social protest movement: Lessons learned from a study of Gezi protests involving the Turkish diaspora in three European countries,” published in The Information Society Jan. 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 the methods and issues behind the trio’s study of the Gezi Park demonstrations in Turkey in the summer of 2013 and how the series of events reflected the role of social media in social movement.
In the original research that built the basis of this article, the authors investigated whether respondents in the diaspora experienced communication-generated social capital, surveying 967 ethnic minorities in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. In this follow-up in The Information Society, they concluded a number of lessons that could be applied to similar studies of ethnic minorities or vulnerable populations.
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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