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<p>We analyze the coverage of the Gezi Park protests by two major Western newspapers—<italic>The New York Times</italic> and <italic>The Guardian</italic>—through the lens of media framing, rhetoric, and collective memory. We argue that these digital archives frame Turkey’s Gezi Park protests as a challenge to an authoritarian government by promoting the themes of unrest as a conflict of ideologies, oppression of citizens, and the park as a site of memory. In a concluding section, we focus on the significance of digital archives as repositories of collective memory and the role of media framing in shaping these reconstructions of events in the past.</p>
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We analyze the coverage of the Gezi Park protests by two major Western newspapers—The New York Times and The Guardian—through the lens of media framing, rhetoric, and collective memory. We argue that these digital archives frame Turkey’s Gezi Park protests as a challenge to an authoritarian government by promoting the themes of unrest as a conflict of ideologies, oppression of citizens, and the park as a site of memory. In a concluding section, we focus on the significance of digital archives as repositories of collective memory and the role of media framing in shaping these reconstructions of events in the past.

Digital Archives: How Western Newspapers Frame Our Remembrance of the Gezi Park Protest

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We analyze the coverage of the Gezi Park protests by two major Western newspapers—The New York Times and The Guardian—through the lens of media framing,...

Digital Archives: How Western Newspapers Frame Our Remembrance of the Gezi Park Protest

Publié en ligne: 31 déc. 2023

Pages: 123 - 144

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2023-0012

Mots clés
Gezi Park, Digital Archives, Collective Memory, Media Framing

© 2023 Nihar Sreepada et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Digital Archives: How Western Newspapers Frame Our Remembrance of the Gezi Park Protest

Publié en ligne: 31 déc. 2023

Pages: 123 - 144

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2023-0012

Mots clésGezi Park, Digital Archives, Collective Memory, Media Framing

© 2023 Nihar Sreepada et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
Gezi Park, Digital Archives, Collective Memory, Media Framing