POLITICIANS SHARE LOCAL ISSUES THROUGH TWITTER: A SAMPLE OF THE POLITICIANS OF EASTERN ANATOLIA REGION

Yıl 2019, Cilt: 6 Sayı: 13, 1 - 21, 30.04.2019

Nural İmik Tanyıldızı , Gökhan Alptekin

Öz

As a new media product, the Internet has great implications for the political sphere.The main purpose of the study is to determine whether the members of the Parliament use Twitter as a social media tool.Content analysis method was applied. In the research conducted between the dates of 01-31 May 2018, 48deputies of the Eastern Anatolia Region shared their personal accounts through Twitter application. Accordingly, it was determined that the daily share rate of 48 deputies belonging to the Eastern Anatolia Region is 3.60 Tweets-Retweet.The province with the highest daily share is Erzurum. The minimum percentage of daily sharing is in Ardahan.“The development, environment and infrastructure” categories have a share ratio of 1.19 in total, while it is 2.55 in the “spore” category in the topics dealt with by parliamentarians in the tweets. As a result of the analyzes, it was seen that the application of Twitter did not use enough level by the deputies of Eastern Anatolia Region in order to inform the public and transfer the regional developments. However, it was found that the usage practices had more national sharing than the shares that they represent.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Political Communication, Social Media, Twitter

Kaynakça

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