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This article argues that digital publics unleash and bolster everyday racism, creating
an unregulated space where anonymity and ubiquity enable the dissemination of
racist message. By creating broader visibility and wider reach of racist texts and
facilitating more participation for racists, social media platforms such as Twitter
normalize gendered and place-based racialization of refugees. Recently, hostility and
hate became the norm in derogating the refugee identity on social media platforms.
To investigate the complexity of digital racism, this article presents a unique case
study on Twitter, capturing the widespread user reactions in the aftermath of the
mass resettlement of Syrians in Turkey. It examines varying racialization of Syrians
on the Turkish Twittersphere, using sentiment and qualitative content analyses of
hashtags and mentions on Syrians, when they hit Twitter trends for Turkey for a
year, first, for mundane events and, second, during the Turkish state’s occupation in
Northern Syria.
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Ozge, Ozduzen and Umut, Korhut and Cansu, Ozduzen (2020) ‘Refugees are not welcome’: Digital racism, online placemaking and the evolving categorization of Syrians in Turkey. New Media & Society, 22 (6). ISSN 1461-7315
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