Presentation for the Reuters Institute at Oxford University on social media and protests in Turkey. Podcast here: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/social-media-and-protests-turkey

1. Esra Doğramacı
@esrad
Turkey: Social Media & Protests

2. #OccupyGezi
#Taksim
#DirenGezi
#BugünTelevizyonlarıKapat

5. So, does social media
matter?

6. Lets do the maths
Population: 77 million
Online: 35 million*
Facebook: 30 million?**
Twitter: 6 million** = 8%
*http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/turkey/ **http://www.statista.com/statistics/284503/turkey-social-network-penetration/

7. Who’s tweeting?
87% = 5.2 million in 3 cities
2015 November general election returns

8. The answer
= Not really

9. This has something to do with
trust

10. But this is where it matters
Source: http://img.rt.com/files/news/32/f4/70/00/syrian-refugees-hunger-strike-.si.jpg

11. Source: http://gdb.voanews.com/E591985F-53C6-4E03-B816-72AFF42A699A_cx0_cy14_cw0_mw1024_s_n_r1.jpg