Who Controls the Digital Agora? Social Media Governance in the European Union, United States, and Turkey
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Doç. Dr. Nuriye ÇELİK Sinop Üniversitesi, Türkiye
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale (ESCI dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale) | ||
| Dergi Adı | Global Society | ||
| Dergi ISSN | 1360-0826 Dergi Bilgileri (2025) | ||
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | ESCI | ||
| Makale Dili | İngilizce | Basım Tarihi | 10-2025 |
| Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa | 40 / 2 / 225–261 | DOI | 10.1080/13600826.2025.2571147 |
| Makale Linki | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600826.2025.2571147?scroll=top&needAccess=true#abstract | ||
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| This study explores how the European Union, the United States, and Turkey regulate social media in the face of disinformation, political polarisation, and the erosion of democratic norms. It argues that regulatory responses are not solely technical adjustments but reflect deeper ideological orientations, revealing whether states conceive the digital sphere as a deliberative public arena or as a domain to be governed through security and control logics. Using qualitative document analysis, the research examines 38 key policy and legal documents issued between 2016 and 2024. A thematic and comparative framework is employed across five dimensions: platform accountability, content governance, data privacy, enforcement mechanisms, and user rights. The analysis is informed by Habermas’s theory of the public sphere, Foucault’s concept of governmentality, and broader media governance scholarship. Findings … |
| Anahtar Kelimeler |
| comparative governance | digital rights | disinformation | European Union | political polarization | Social media regulation | Turkey | United States |
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