Sessizlikten Platform Kamusallığına: Kadın Cinayetlerine Karşı Instagram’da Dijital Feminist Bilgi, Hafıza ve Direniş

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Bu çalışma, kadın cinayetlerine karşı dijital feminist mücadelenin, yeni medya ortamlarında ana-akım kamusal alanda dışlanan deneyimleri görünür kılarak nasıl bir karşı-kamusal alan inşa ettiğini incelemektedir. Çalışma, kadın cinayetlerinin geleneksel medyada bireysel ve münferit olaylar olarak çerçevelenmesine karşı geliştirilen dijital feminist söylemleri, kamusal sorun tanımı, feminist bilgi üretimi ve kolektif hafıza inşası bağlamında ele almaktadır. Kavramsal ve kuramsal çerçeve, karşı-kamusal alan yaklaşımını feminist kriminolojinin kadın cinayetlerini yapısal şiddet ve kurumsal cezasızlık ekseninde ele alan perspektifiyle birleştirmektedir. Araştırmada, Türkiye’de kadına yönelik şiddete karşı mücadele alanında faaliyet yürüten Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız Platformu, Mor Çatı Kadın Sığınağı Vakfı, Kadın Dayanışma Vakfı ve Uçan Süpürge Vakfı’nın 2025 yılı boyunca ürettikleri toplam 190 adet kurumsal Instagram paylaşımı veri seti olarak alınmış ve bu içerikler üzerinden nitel bir tematik analiz gerçekleştirilmiştir. Analiz bulguları, dijital platformların feminist STK’lara alternatif bilgi rejimleri üretme, kadın cinayetlerini kayda geçirme, anma ve hatırlama pratikleri yoluyla karşı-hafıza oluşturma ve politik mobilizasyonu mümkün kıldığını göstermektedir. Bu bağlamda dijital feminist karşı-kamusal alan, kadın cinayetlerini bireysel sapma ya da istisnai olay anlatılarının ötesine taşıyarak patriyarkal şiddet ilişkileri ve devletin sorumluluğu ekseninde yeniden çerçevelemektedir. Analiz, Instagram’ın yeni medyaya özgü görsel ve duygulanımsal mantığının feminist söylemlerin dolaşımını ve görünürlüğünü güçlendirirken, aynı zamanda platformun algoritmik yapısı ve kullanım dinamikleri nedeniyle çeşitli sınırlar ve kırılganlıklar da ürettiğini ortaya koymaktadır. Sonuç olarak araştırma, dijital feminist aktivizmin yeni medya ortamlarında sessizlikten karşı-kamusal alana uzanan bir hatta, bilgi, hafıza ve direnişi birlikte üreten çok katmanlı bir politik pratik olduğunu savunmaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Yeni Medya
• dijital aktivizm
• karşı-kamusal alan
• feminist epistemoloji
• kadın cinayetleri
• feminist kriminoloji

From Silence to Platform Publicness: Digital Feminist Knowledge, Memory, and Resistance Against Femicide on Instagram

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This study examines how digital feminist struggles against femicide construct counter-public spheres in new media environments by rendering visible experiences that are excluded from the mainstream public sphere. Focusing on digital feminist discourses developed in response to the dominant media framing of femicides as individual, isolated incidents, the study analyzes how these interventions redefine femicide as a public problem and contribute to feminist knowledge production and the construction of collective memory. The conceptual and theoretical framework brings together counter-public sphere theory with feminist criminology, particularly its structural analysis of femicide in relation to patriarchal violence and institutionalized impunity. Empirically, the study is based on a qualitative thematic analysis of a dataset comprising 190 institutional Instagram posts produced throughout 2025 by four feminist organizations in Türkiye working against gender-based violence, including We Will Stop Femicide Platform, Mor Çatı Women’s Shelter Foundation, Women’s Solidarity Foundation, and Flying Broom Foundation. The findings demonstrate that digital platforms enable feminist NGOs to generate alternative regimes of knowledge, document femicides, construct counter-memory through practices of naming, commemoration, and archiving, and facilitate political mobilization. Within this context, the digital feminist counter-public sphere re-frames femicide beyond narratives of individual deviance or exceptional events, situating it instead within patriarchal power relations and the responsibility of the state. The analysis further shows that while Instagram’s visual and affective media logic enhances the circulation and visibility of feminist discourses, it simultaneously produces limitations and vulnerabilities shaped by the platform’s algorithmic structure and usage dynamics. Overall, the study argues that digital feminist activism constitutes a multi-layered political practice that brings together knowledge, memory, and resistance, tracing a trajectory from silence to counter-public visibility in new media environments.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• new media
• digital activism
• counter-public sphere
• feminist epistemology
• femicide
• feminist criminology

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