Reflections of Human in Security Concept in The World of Twitter: The #avrupabirligi Hashtag

Security means the state of being free from danger, risk or threat. In social sciences, human security is an emerging paradigm shift concerning a person-centered, multi-disciplinary understanding of security involving a number of studies and human rights. According to Amartya Sen 2000 , “hu...

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Main Authors: Sinan Aşçı, Pelin Sönmez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Akademik Bilişim Araştırmaları Derneği 2018-01-01
Series:Online Academic Journal of Information Technology
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Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ajit-e/issue/54421/740728
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description Security means the state of being free from danger, risk or threat. In social sciences, human security is an emerging paradigm shift concerning a person-centered, multi-disciplinary understanding of security involving a number of studies and human rights. According to Amartya Sen 2000 , “human security” is a keyword referring comprehensively everything free of the menaces that threaten the survival, daily lives, and dignity of individuals and to strengthening the efforts to confront these threats. On the other hand, “human insecurity” as a term stands for defining various situations where conflicts lead to perception of deprivation of some-kind, among certain people, in a given context Sirkeci, 2009 . Human insecurity affects migration movements in a way with the connection of 3Ds: namely democratic, development and demographic deficits. Accordingly, it is claimed that recent developments, the attempted coup on July 15, 2016 and the aftermath have made Turkey as a seemingly insecure place in reference to these 3Ds facilitating migration movements in and/or from the country. Sirkeci, 2017 According to the reports of Eurostat published in 2016, asylum applications filed by citizens of Turkey in European countries reached at 3779 in the third quarter comparing to the same quarter of 2015 at 985. After the attempted coup, this tendency seems on the rise, which actually signals us the fact that human insecurity perceptions among citizens. To evaluate this hypothesis, Twitter, as a public social media platform, based on the hashtags used by Turkish people, such as #avrupabirligi and #avrupabirliği in English “european ” was evaluated within the methodology content analysis.
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spelling doaj.art-5c4ea9b76869402aa38ada9fe32bd9192023-02-15T16:11:02ZengAkademik Bilişim Araştırmaları DerneğiOnline Academic Journal of Information Technology1309-15812018-01-0193172010.5824/1309-1581.2018.1.001.x2039Reflections of Human in Security Concept in The World of Twitter: The #avrupabirligi HashtagSinan Aşçı0Pelin Sönmez1Nişantaşı University New Media DepartmentKocaeli University International Relations DepartmentSecurity means the state of being free from danger, risk or threat. In social sciences, human security is an emerging paradigm shift concerning a person-centered, multi-disciplinary understanding of security involving a number of studies and human rights. According to Amartya Sen 2000 , “human security” is a keyword referring comprehensively everything free of the menaces that threaten the survival, daily lives, and dignity of individuals and to strengthening the efforts to confront these threats. On the other hand, “human insecurity” as a term stands for defining various situations where conflicts lead to perception of deprivation of some-kind, among certain people, in a given context Sirkeci, 2009 . Human insecurity affects migration movements in a way with the connection of 3Ds: namely democratic, development and demographic deficits. Accordingly, it is claimed that recent developments, the attempted coup on July 15, 2016 and the aftermath have made Turkey as a seemingly insecure place in reference to these 3Ds facilitating migration movements in and/or from the country. Sirkeci, 2017 According to the reports of Eurostat published in 2016, asylum applications filed by citizens of Turkey in European countries reached at 3779 in the third quarter comparing to the same quarter of 2015 at 985. After the attempted coup, this tendency seems on the rise, which actually signals us the fact that human insecurity perceptions among citizens. To evaluate this hypothesis, Twitter, as a public social media platform, based on the hashtags used by Turkish people, such as #avrupabirligi and #avrupabirliği in English “european ” was evaluated within the methodology content analysis.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ajit-e/issue/54421/740728avrupa birliğiinsani güven siz likkargaşagöçsosyal medyaeuropeanhuman in securityconflictmigrationsocial media
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Reflections of Human in Security Concept in The World of Twitter: The #avrupabirligi Hashtag
Online Academic Journal of Information Technology
avrupa birliği
insani güven siz lik
kargaşa
göç
sosyal medya
european
human in security
conflict
migration
social media
title Reflections of Human in Security Concept in The World of Twitter: The #avrupabirligi Hashtag
title_full Reflections of Human in Security Concept in The World of Twitter: The #avrupabirligi Hashtag
title_fullStr Reflections of Human in Security Concept in The World of Twitter: The #avrupabirligi Hashtag
title_full_unstemmed Reflections of Human in Security Concept in The World of Twitter: The #avrupabirligi Hashtag
title_short Reflections of Human in Security Concept in The World of Twitter: The #avrupabirligi Hashtag
title_sort reflections of human in security concept in the world of twitter the avrupabirligi hashtag
topic avrupa birliği
insani güven siz lik
kargaşa
göç
sosyal medya
european
human in security
conflict
migration
social media
url https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ajit-e/issue/54421/740728
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