Social Media and Local Culture: A Content Analysis for Turkish Village Pages on Facebook and Twitter

Gürcan, H. İ.

Abstract:
Thanks to the spread of the internet to larges masses, it is now more often observed in all aspects of daily life routines. The opportunities to use the internet for a variety of activities ranging from banking to information gathering and job applications make people‘s lives easier. In addition to its use in business sector, the internet has been a place for many websites aiming at contributing to socialization and the entertainment of the users at universal level. The concept ―global village‖ suggested by McLuhan has been acknowledged more thanks to the social networks emerged on the internet and attracted many fans at global level. This new trend also affected the people living in rural areas and they prepared web pages for their villages and therefore initiated a new means of communication. Local cultures now have the opportunity to introduce themselves to a larger audience through the internet. The village websites designed and published have been an important step to provide information about the history, culture and life conditions of each village and share this information and communicate with those who already left the village and started to live somewhere else. In addition to web pages available, the groups and pages created on social network websites also made it possible for those still living in the village and those migrated to share and communicate with each other. In this study, the contents of 50 groups or pages about villages created on Facebook and Twitter will be analyzed.

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  • Gürcan, H. İ. (2012). Social Media and Local Culture: A Content Analysis for Turkish Village Pages on Facebook and Twitter. International Journal of Social Sciences, I(2), 12–19.

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