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The impacts of the Turkish government's conspiratorial framing of the Gezi Park protests

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What happens when a prime minister frames a momentous protest as a foreign conspiracy? The Turkish government’s reaction to the Gezi Park protests, a reaction centred on a conspiracy theory about an ‘interest rate lobby,’ provides a unique case to explore the impacts of conspiracy theories about big-scale protests. Relying on quantitative and qualitative content analysis of online users’ responses to the government’s conspiracy theories, I discuss the socio-political significance of this cons...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1080/14742837.2017.1319269

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Sociology
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Author
Publisher:
Routledge Publisher's website
Journal:
Social Movement Studies Journal website
Volume:
16
Issue:
5
Pages:
610-62
Publication date:
2017-04-21
Acceptance date:
2017-01-05
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EISSN:
1474-2829
ISSN:
1474-2837
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pubs:667864
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uuid:384d80e9-2a36-4cfa-9797-e542744b60bd
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pubs:667864
Source identifiers:
667864
Deposit date:
2017-01-02

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