%0 Journal Article
%T TWITTER AS A MACRO CYBER PUBLIC SPHERE: AN ANALYSIS OF "TRENDING TOPICS" OF TURKEY
%A £¿smail Burak Malko£¿
%J -
%D 2018
%X This research aims to collect data about Twitter's distinctive cyber public sphere and present practical results for the discussions about whether Twitter, which is an online social networking site, is a public sphere or not. For this purpose, firstly the concept is tried to be defined and its relationship between the concepts like publicness, organized politics, random urban interactions, compromise and visibility is explained within the context of the names as Habermas, Arendt, Fraser and Sennett. Then, how mass media, especially television, has been understood as a public sphere and the differences between mass media and the cyber public spheres of today, particularly Twitter, are mentioned through both sociology and communication science approaches. In conclusion, with the analysis of the data collected from the Trending Topics table of Turkey, which is considered as the macro-public layer of Twitter, Twitter's publicness is discussed and the character of its cyber public sphere is described in the context of public sphere
%K Sosyal Medya
%K Twitter
%K Kamusal Alan
%K Trending Topic
%K Tš¹rkiye
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/sosnot/issue/37831/397730