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Facebook: An Emerging Arena for Politics of Self- Determination in northern Cyprus?
Emel Akcali 
South European Society and Politics
Swansea University Author:
Emel Akcali
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/13608746.2019.1631996
Abstract
This article scrutinises the politicalrole of social media by focusing on the case of Facebook and theself-determination claims of Turkish Cypriots vis-à-vis Turkey.Drawing upon a virtual ethnography of relevant Facebooksites and groups, it analyses whether social mediaoffer an innovative public pla...
| Published in: | South European Society and Politics |
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| Published: |
Routledge Taylor and Francis Group
2019
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa50984 |
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| Abstract: |
This article scrutinises the politicalrole of social media by focusing on the case of Facebook and theself-determination claims of Turkish Cypriots vis-à-vis Turkey.Drawing upon a virtual ethnography of relevant Facebooksites and groups, it analyses whether social mediaoffer an innovative public platform for the politics of selfdeterminationor on-line claims are in reality formed and negotiatedin the same manner as the offline ones. The article comes to the conclusion that Turkish Cypriots’ Facebook activism may verywell befor strengthening their community, shielding their distinct characteristicsfrom mainland Turkey and raising their self-esteem,rather than indicating demands for complete autonomy in thetraditional political sense of the word and/or statehood. |
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| Keywords: |
Turkey, Northern Cyprus, Justice and Development Party, self-determination, de facto state, social media, conflict |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |