Türkçede yeni gelişmekte olan bu alandaki kuramsal tartışmayı besleyecek bir başlangıç çalışması olma amacındadır.
The study examines the example of ‘Gıdadedektifi’ to understand how the food movements in Turkey use social media as a field of struggle. Gıdadedektifi’s digital food activism experience was evaluated through content analysis of 1070 tweets and 229 Instagram posts shared on Twitter and Instagram during 2021. Content analysis indicates that Gıdadedektifi is sharing extensively on label analysis of packaged products, legislation and food safety; and uses most the hashtags #neyediğinizibilin (knowwhatyoueat) and #neiçtiğinizibilin (knowhatyoudrink). In this direction, it can be said that the initiative is trying to create an agenda/public opinion on label literacy and food safety. The accounts to which the initiative directs its claims/demands mainly consist of public institutions/officers. Campaigns were made to assure policy change by mentioning those public actors in 6.5% of the posts on Instagram and 28.5% on Twitter. However, the participation and interaction rates of Gıdadedektifi’s accounts are not very high. In addition, the low number of posts about the positive achievements of the campaigns in the sample suggests that the contribution of the initiative to policy making is limited. The fact that Gıdadedektifi is occasionally getting paid to review products also necessitates questioning the relations between activism and consumption. The review of the one-year activity of Gıdadedektifi shows that social media is an effective tool, at least in creating a food agenda in Turkey. However, the analysis indicates that the potential of networking of this tool has not been sufficiently exploited.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, developments in information and communication technologies have radically transformed and digitised our daily lives. Every individual in the digital ecosystem, continually participates in data production by leaving digital traces. These data stacks, which could not be processed in a reasonable time with existing software or human resources, are called big data. Those who are pro-big data, emphasise its potential to improve our understanding and perception of world affairs. However, there is a need for data journalists to be "digital watchdogs" (Felle, 2015; 2016) that will make sense of the data and reveal the stories hidden in them for the public good. The discussion of big data in the context of journalism started with the Wikileaks in 2010. Data journalism has come to the fore as a new practice covering the stages of cleaning, editing , visualising, processing and contextualising data. Investigative data journalism (Mair, & Keeble, 2013), which seeks to "find what is hidden in the shadows" based on infor-mal/confidential data, and to find the relationships in it, is emphasised as an important tool of democracy. Both professionals and academics assume that; the media, which has been gradually losing blood under the influence of neoliberal, conservative and authoritarian governments , could regain the fourth power function with the aid of investigative data journalism.
In the neoliberal media autocracy of Turkey, mass media are propaganda tools rather than the public watchdogs. The coup attempt in 2016 gave the government additional power to institutionalise this regime. Critical journalists have become the enemies of the state and suffered from threats from various sources. This attack on critical journalism is increasing alongside the deepening of the democracy crises, positioning journalists as victims. This study argues that bridging the fields of journalism safety and victimology would benefit journalists. Therefore, a critical analysis of reports on journalism safety, opponent journalists' social media posts, and related news was performed in order to discuss the possibility and advantages of bridging this gap to help journalists deal with victimisation. The findings demonstrate the acceptance of journalists as a new subject for victims' rights might activate new mechanisms of protection for them. This means searching for new rights can contribute to their physical, mental, and moral recovery.
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