cilt.1, sa.1, ss.8-22, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)
In Turkey, in recent years, the escalating increase in fatal violence
against women continues to pose a vital challenge. This frightening situation
is rapidly pushing some women away from safe living spaces and forcing others
to seek new ways to address the problem in digital spaces. In fact, lethal violence
against women is often a continuation of general patterns of sexist
discrimination against women. It is also a consequence of the persistent
violence perpetrated against some women by mechanisms that turn a blind eye to
the impunity of perpetrators. In this study[1], three emotions (trust/distrust,
hate and fear) obtained from 83 semi-structured questionnaires and tweets about
the prevention of femicide in Turkey were analysed. In this context, the study
has two interrelated aims. The first of these is to identify and evaluate the
deep traces left by fatal female violence in individual and social memory. The
second is to discuss the legal, socio-political and individual measures that
need to be taken urgently to eliminate this brutal form of punishment. In the
study, 79491 tweets were used for quantitative impact analysis and qualitative
analysis was conducted on 14214 individual tweets ranked in terms of impact. In
addition, the content analysis of the web questionnaire conducted with 83
people was conducted. The most basic finding of the
study was that the emotions emerged simultaneously and together and that the
emotions of distrust and hatred were closely related to each other, while a
very low correlation was observed with the emotion of fear.
[1] "Reading the Panoptic Effects
of Femicide on Twitter: The Case of Turkey" was supported by Çanakkale
Onsekiz Mart University Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit. Project
Number: 3186, code: SBA-2020."