Digital Archives: How Western Newspapers Frame Our Remembrance of the Gezi Park Protest
Digital Archives: How Western Newspapers Frame Our Remembrance of the Gezi Park Protest
Author(s): Nihar Sreepada, Ahmet AksoySubject(s): Media studies, Archiving, Electronic information storage and retrieval, Communication studies, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta sociálních věd
Keywords: Gezi Park; Digital Archives; Collective Memory; Media Framing
Summary/Abstract: 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.
Journal: Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics
- Issue Year: 17/2023
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 123-144
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English
