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Networked misogyny beyond the digital: the violent devaluation of women journalists' labor and bodies in Turkey's masculine authoritarian regime

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Media and Visual Arts
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Sociology
dc.contributor.kuauthorBulut, Ergin
dc.contributor.kuauthorCan, Başak Bulut
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Social Sciences and Humanities
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-19T10:29:32Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractFollowing the conservative Turkish government's political-economic capture of the news media, educated and pro-feminist women journalists have migrated online. Despite having more publicity across platforms, they face immediate prosecution based on the tweet of an anonymous troll, an informant citizen or a government official. While this is a common case of networked misogyny, inspired by Liz Kelly's concept of the continuum of sexual violence, we argue that networked misogyny against women journalists is not simply technological but rather both interconnected across different spaces (online manosphere, masculine newsrooms, and authoritarian state) and intersectional feeding from nationalism, class, and anti-Western sentiments. This intersectionality renders networked misogyny against Turkey's journalists different from liberal contexts because it operates not through illegality but suspicion (of terrorism, treason). Our focus on interconnections and intersectionality allows for theorizing networked misogyny beyond the digital, genders current perspectives on authoritarianism and reframes networked misogyny as a violent war targeting women's intellectual labor and public visibility, both significant threats to authoritarian regimes across the globe. The interconnected and intersectional stories of networked misogyny from Turkey point to how fighting against this form of violence is also a fight against the post-truth regimes of authoritarianism and fight for democracy.
dc.description.indexedbyWOS
dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.issue4
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.volume24
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14680777.2023.2219861
dc.identifier.eissn1471-5902
dc.identifier.issn1468-0777
dc.identifier.quartileQ2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85161530391
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2219861
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/25894
dc.identifier.wos1000918300001
dc.keywordsNetworked misogyny
dc.keywordsAuthoritarianism
dc.keywordsSexism
dc.keywordsJournalism
dc.keywordsIntersectionality
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofFeminist Media Studies
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectWomen's studies
dc.titleNetworked misogyny beyond the digital: the violent devaluation of women journalists' labor and bodies in Turkey's masculine authoritarian regime
dc.typeJournal Article
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