After the first case in the world, it has been consistently shared with the public that the group most affected by the pandemic is the older adults, those with chronic conditions, cancer patients, chronic respiratory diseases and health workers. In addition, older adults with multiple diseases due to their age are more affected by COVID-19 and should not go out unless they need to protect the older adults both through government rhetoric and through the media. Especially on March 11, 2020, with the first case in the country, the announcement of the number of cases and deaths over the older adults revealed the dangerous dimension of the pandemic and called on the older adults to “stay home”. While these calls were made to remind and protect the older adults, over time, these discourses changed direction by the public and it was seen that the older adults were stigmatized, marginalized and subjected to hate speech, especially through social media. This study was conducted to make sense of tweets on Twitter that contained negative rhetoric directed at the older adults by young people. Qualitative research methods and techniques were used depending on the purpose of the study, and tweets shared on Twitter during the pandemic period were collected under themes as a result of continuous readings and analyzed by Teun A. van Dijk's critical discourse analysis method and the problems faced by the older adults with the pandemic period were evaluated.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Sociology |
Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | October 27, 2021 |
Acceptance Date | October 22, 2021 |
Published in Issue | Year 2021 |