This concept is contested today, along many lines, and this paper will elaborate the three main: pluralism in the structure, pluralism of content, and pluralism implying the active role of the audience. Media pluralism is the central concept around which the role of the reformed public media has been created. This paper rethinks the role of Public service broadcasting (PSB) in promoting and forging pluralism and diversity for the sake of democratic wealth of one’s society. Therefore, my paper, based on the usage of social media courses at the night of the coup and analysing these new media channels through a wider literature of citizen journalism, mostly in a theoretic way, aims to (a) demonstrate the role of social media courses especially twitter, in a democratic movement in Turkey, (b) how they changed the nature of news production, (c) how social media caused to question freedom of expression/the press and (d) gave new insights on issues regarding sociology of news and Turkish democratisation.
In this context, the increasing usage of social media in Turkey, their crucial role in resisting an oppression and organising social movements need to be systematically analysed. Within this context, the news stories produced and shared by citizen journalists helped the resistance to spread across the country and provide a global reaction against the military intervention. Along with the resistance of Turkey’s citizens against the military tanks and arms, the second reason that made it stay as an attempt coup was the increasing use of social media platforms, especially twitter.
The 15th July coup was luckily left as an attempt and since it has been widely hashtagged: #Notocoup. Although the country’s vulnerable democracy has long suffered from several coup d’etats (1960, 1971, 1980, 1997), this was quite different.
Turkey on the 15th July 2016 faced another coup attempt.
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