Media ecology of a revolt: Following hashtags and hyperlinks in the Gezi

protest movement

Davide Beraldo, Evelien D'heer, Molly Kalan, Zuzana Karascakova, Emily Stacey

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Research Questions

• RQ1: What hashtags are co-occurring in the Gezi protest movement?

• RQ2: How are protest hashtags related to Gezi Park used to disseminate information via hyperlink?

• RQ3: How is the information disseminated via hyperlink different across hashtag clusters?

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Methodology & Tools• Data retrieved June 7 - June 9

• Twitter Search API: 500,000 tweets with keyword “Gezi”

• Instagram API: 4,038 photos with #gezi, #occupygezi, #direngezi

• Scripts to extract co-occurring hashtags and hyperlinks

• Gephi

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Hashtag Co-occurrence

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Bipartite Hashtag & Domain

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Hashtag Co-occurrence

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Hashtag Co-occurrence

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Discussion

• Clusters suggest different intent

• Tactical use of #instagood hashtags

• AV content shared most often; few mainstream news sources

• Hashtag-Platform specificities

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