Social Media Theory Data Blog Post: Gezi Park Protest

 Primary Source #1

Burke Comedic Frame- Unlike the burlesque, it does not reject people for their foolishness; it considers them simply mistaken and therefore harmless. Burke says that comedy always ignores something significant, to focus on the happy.

Schemes:

enallage: Intentional grammar misuse.= çapulcu was quickly appropriated to mean a person who fights for his or her democratic rights. They use this instead of the popular TV show name South Park.

Tropes:

Substitution- anthimeria: Substitution of one part of speech for another.= Using the word çapulcu instead of South.

P-OT:

Premise:

Abstract- the believe that all Turkish activists will have the same definition of çapulcu and understand the reference to South Park

Premise Modifiers:

Enthymeme- those who participate in the protest are becoming icons, like those in South Park.

Argument Types:

Symbolic Liaison: Order/degree- how this movement correlates with the government.

Primary Sources #2

Leland M Griffin "The Rhetoric of Historical Movements"- This image was one of the main images that many news groups used to depict the terror of the Gezi Park Protest. In Griffin's piece he identifies the phases of development for social movements, beginning with a period of inception. For the Gezi Park this is the moment of inception. "A time when the roots of a pre-existing sentiment, nourished by interested rhetoricians, begin to flower into public notice, or when some striking event occurs which immediately creates a host of aggressor rhetoricians and itself sufficient to initiate the movement.

Schemes & Tropes-

Visual:

Color (saturation)- the purity or vividness or depth of a color. The dress is the accent piece of the tarp while the police are vivid.

Perspective (geometric)- an illusion of depth and space. Compared to the original image, with the use of a geometric shape (the pepper spray) they have made the woman look bigger than the police, which is also ironic.

Focus: (focalizers)- Are figures or colors or spaces used to pull the eye across the image? The woman is the focalizer, while the pepper spray makes your eyes drawn to the words.

PO-T- 

Premises:

Facts/Truth (Observed)- Concrete Data. The number of people that saw the original images of the Lady in red must understand the meaning behind their mew tapestry for their protest.

Values: (Specific)- "true for me" "good for you"- They believe that the tapestry they mad in "Memory of Resistance" is good enough to be a reason to end the violence and not have the park destroyed.

Premise Modifiers:

Presence (Aggregation)- by adding the words "Memory of Resistance" it adds new context to the image, but it also allows the viewer to decide on their own interpretation of the Lady In Red. Is she the symbol that will be remembered? Will the government always remember what hey did, or will the protesters make sure they never forget?