Visual Resistance in Platform Societies

Video Activism in Türkiye’s Feminist and Environmental Movements

Bibliographic Data

ID22010564
AuthorsAyşe Fulya Şen (0000-0003-3350-8292, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume15
Issue12
Pages1289-1307
Publication date2025-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAdvances in Applied Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2165-4328 • E-ISSN: 2165-4336
PublisherScientific Research Publishing, Inc. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4236/aasoci.2025.1512073
OpenAlexW7116102285
LanguageEN
References cited17

This article investigates how feminist and environmental movements in Türkiye mobilize video activism to produce visual resistance within digital platforms. Drawing on the four-part analytical framework developed by Eder, Hartmann, and Tedjasukmana (2025) and Huber (2020)—platform tactics, affective and formal dimensions, manifest meanings, and latent meanings—the study conducts qualitative content analysis of six selected videos. The findings reveal that video activism functions not merely as message transmission but as a layered practice of algorithmic navigation, emotional mobilization, and symbolic construction. Feminist and ecological struggles converge through multimodal tactics that stitch together plurality and solidarity. The study contributes to the literature by situating Turkish video activism within both local political dynamics and global digital infrastructures, offering theoretical insight and empirical grounding for future research

Digital media · Digital video · Political activism · Politics · Qualitative research · Turkish · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Social Media and Politics

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