Papers by Roya Imani Giglou
Use a key word list that reflects the literature on your topic, and use software when possible to... more Use a key word list that reflects the literature on your topic, and use software when possible to determine the relevancy of data. Casually read through tweets, delete irrelevant data from your sample, and then randomly select replacement tweets from other samples. To facilitate transparency in the research, tweets deleted from the samples should be retained. All major methodological decisions should be carefully documented (e.g., sampling, cleaning, data management). Manual Content Analysis Manual content analysis is time-consuming but still useful as software does not yet have the capability to pick up nuances of human communication such as slang, sarcasm, hashtags, emoticons, and acronyms. While time-consuming, when possible open links and embedded media in Twitter feeds to determine their content and its relevance to your study. Consider crowdsourcing as a cost-saving measure when manual content analysis is needed.
Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
New Media & Society, Nov 30, 2016
The Gezi Park demonstrations across Turkey in the early summer of 2013 offered another opportunit... more The Gezi Park demonstrations across Turkey in the early summer of 2013 offered another opportunity to examine the role played by social media in a social movement. This survey of 967 ethnic (Turkish or Kurdish) minorities living in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany focuses on attitudes and behaviors alongside uses of offline and online networks to make connections with others during and after Gezi. We investigate whether the respondents living in the diaspora experienced communication-generated social capital. We also examine whether the social capital already built through lives spent in Europe, where connections to majority populations had been forged, was at least temporarily reversed through a process of re-bonding, as ethnic minorities turned their attention and loyalty to the social movement in Turkey.
Innovative Higher Education, 2023
Given the still existing restrictions of COVID-19, blended learning is undoubtedlybecoming a bett... more Given the still existing restrictions of COVID-19, blended learning is undoubtedlybecoming a better-fitting strategy for higher education institutions in underprivi-leged countries. Acknowledging the current changes in higher education, this studyaims to investigate the elements that influence students’ satisfaction and their futurepreferences regarding blended learning in Algeria. A total of 782 questionnaireswere collected from different Algerian universities. A structural Equation Mod-eling (SEM) analysis was conducted to investigate the relationship among the latentvariables of the proposed theoretical model. Moreover, an unsupervised sentimentanalysis approach was applied to analyze the qualitative data received in the formof feedback from the participants. The results show that students’ perceived ease ofuse and perceived usefulness of blended learning had a significant positive impacton their satisfaction. Similarly, satisfaction had a positive influence on students’future preferences regarding blended learning. In turn, students’ perceived ease ofuse and usefulness had an indirect effect on their future preferences, mediated bysatisfaction. Additionally, qualitative data echoed students’ eagerness to adopt moreadvanced learning technologies and what obstacles currently stand in their way. Thecontribution of this study is to reflect the current situation of blended learning adop-tion in developing countries and to support future curriculum planning and develop-ment. It can also help teachers, students, and policymakers to make better decisionsand recommendations for an improved and more sustainable learning and teachingenvironment in the future.
Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion, 2022
A large influx of refugees in several European countries has created challenges at all levels of ... more A large influx of refugees in several European countries has created challenges at all levels of society, starting with the actors in charge of their integration. During this crisis, social media platforms seem to have played a major role in the refugees’ journey and inclusion in their host countries. Based on in-depth interviews with 28 Syrian refugees who settled in Belgium after 2015, this chapter looks at the ways they use social media in the hope of integrating in the host country and overcoming cultural challenges. Social media use has helped them alleviate their social isolation, access information in their native language, and find out about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in their new country.
ECREA Digital Fortress Europe Conference, 2019
International Communication Gazette, 2019
This study constructs and tests the building of social capital and integration among Turkish mino... more This study constructs and tests the building of social capital and integration among Turkish minorities (n = 967) residing in three countries with different integration policy realities according to the Migrant Integration Policy Index for Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. Through online and offline surveys, the study examines the extent to which bridging and bonding social capital, the dominant language of media use, and the socio-demographic characteristics of respondents affect their degree of integration. The results show that the degree of integration increases with a sense of belonging to a faith, length of stay in Europe, exposure to European mainstream media, and through bridging with natives in the host society. Integration levels decrease, however, with the retention of Turkish citizenship. The degree of integration among the Turkish diaspora varies widely across the three countries under study.
International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, 2018
This article describes how interpersonal relationships structures and standards are evolving. By ... more This article describes how interpersonal relationships structures and standards are evolving. By focusing on a social network context, this study examined different factors that can affect forgiveness decision of a victim of an online offense. In addition, it inspected whether the decrease of trust after an online-related offense can be affected by forgiveness. 323 participants took part in this study by completing a questionnaire that recorded different measurements. Structural equation modeling was used as the main technique for data analysis, and AMOS was used as a tool. Surprisingly, while empathy and commitment had no significant direct effect, results showed that the severity of the offense, its frequency and pretransgression trust are the main factors that influence forgiveness. Moreover, a victim's trust towards the transgressor decreased much more in the absence of forgiveness than in its presence. A valuable contribution of this article is in the prospect for related f...
The Information Society, 2017
ABSTRACT Research on social protest movements raises many complicated methodological issues. This... more ABSTRACT Research on social protest movements raises many complicated methodological issues. This article systematically explains the methodological quandaries the authors confronted when studying demonstrations and online and offline activism by ethnic Turks in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands in support of the Gezi Park protesters in Turkey. It explains how participants were recruited and surveyed in this complex and extremely sensitive environment. It offers lessons learned that can be applied to other studies involving surveys of ethnic minorities engaged in social protest movements. More generally, they may also apply to surveys of any vulnerable population about sensitive issues.
Telematics and Informatics, 2017
Based on an offline and online survey of 967 people of Turkish origin living in these countries, ... more Based on an offline and online survey of 967 people of Turkish origin living in these countries, we test how legacy and social media have influenced the participation of the members of the Turkish diaspora in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands in the mid-2013 protests in Turkey’s social movement referred to as Gezi Park. This study also investigates how living in Europe can influence the behavior and attitudes of the sampled individuals from the Turkish Diaspora of Germany, Belgium and Netherlands during the period when the Gezi Park demonstration took place. Our results make it clear that social media were used by those who supported the protest movement, while those who opposed the protest movement primarily used or followed traditional sources of media, including Turkish and European television. Furthermore, supporters amongst the diaspora for the Gezi-protests were primarily active in accruing social capital through bonding and social networking among those who belong to the Turkish diaspora under the guise of the Gezi Park protests. Finally, a significant number of the supporters of the protests in the three countries took part in several different means of supporting the movement, including: disseminating awareness about the Gezi protests through social media, engaging in meetings, and in some cases, even severing contact with friends and acquaintances who did not share their support for the protest movement.
The Gezi protests in Turkey in May 2013 involved the European diaspora as well as the Turkish pop... more The Gezi protests in Turkey in May 2013 involved the European diaspora as well as the Turkish population in Turkey. Ethnic minorities whose roots were in Turkey may have felt torn between their country of residence and the nation where they or members of their family were born as they passively or actively participated in those events. Through an online and offline survey, we focused on activities of Turkish and Kurdish ethnic minorities in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, and their attitudes and behaviours related to the demonstrations taking place in the country of their ethnic origins. A survey of 967 respondents who either actively or passively supported the Gezi movement or opposed it altogether was conducted to determine the nature of diaspora involvement in the demonstrations. We investigated the use of social media to communicate with others about the demonstrations; the relationship between the diaspora and friends and family in Turkey; the attitudes towards Turkey as ...
Conference Paper / Websci2014, Indiana, 2014
Recent high profile political actions during the Arab spring revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and ac... more Recent high profile political actions during the Arab spring revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and across the Arab world and lately during the Gezi Park movement in Turkey been observed by scholars who have been conducting research about the role of online social media to facilitate and support the political mobilization and mass social change (See for example Gerbaudo, 2012; Tufekci, 2012; Howard and Hussein, 2011; Lim, 2012; and Stepanova, 2011). Some scholars and journalists have stated that the role of online social media, which are built around weak ties, have been overstated and have failed to effect the intended change. They also assert the media may have been used by the government to crush opposition protests and identify protesters (Gladwell, 2010), Other scholars have argued that online social media may spark and accelerate a social movement and help activists to organize their activities and strengthen their voices against authoritarian leaders and work to influence opinion across the world . This research attempts to map the online and offline networks of Turkish diaspora in three European countries using the Gezi park protests as a case study. The research also aims to understand the role of online social media and use of a particular social media platform, the micro- blog Twitter, during the movement. I will examine Twitter‘s impact on the relational and structural attributes the activists‘ social networks and its relationship to the building of social capital. A mixed-methods approach will be used in this study: an online and offline survey; social network analysis; in-depth interviews of key actors; and content analysis of tweets.
New Media & Society, 2016
The Gezi Park demonstrations across Turkey in the early summer of 2013 offered another opportunit... more The Gezi Park demonstrations across Turkey in the early summer of 2013 offered another opportunity to examine the role played by social media in a social movement. This survey of 967 ethnic (Turkish or Kurdish) minorities living in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany focuses on attitudes and behaviors alongside uses of offline and online networks to make connections with others during and after Gezi. We investigate whether the respondents living in the diaspora experienced communication-generated social capital. We also examine whether the social capital already built through lives spent in Europe, where connections to majority populations had been forged, was at least temporarily reversed through a process of re-bonding, as ethnic minorities turned their attention and loyalty to the social movement in Turkey.
Handbook of Research on Politics in the Computer Age
This study investigates how members of the Turkish diaspora connected online using Twitter as a s... more This study investigates how members of the Turkish diaspora connected online using Twitter as a social medium during the Gezi Park protests and how those connections and the structure of the resulting Twitter network changed after the protests ended. Further, the authors examine respondents' online influence and their roles in the movement, using social network centrality measures and Tommasel and Godoy's (2015) novel metric. The authors utilize data from Twitter to determine the connections between 307 distinct users, using both online and offline surveys. The findings reveal that Turkish diaspora members' use of Twitter provided the impetus for larger structural changes to the Twitter network. Moreover, results indicate that users' influence was not related to the frequency of their re-tweets or the number of their Twitter followers. Rather, users' influence corresponds to other factors such as their ability to spread information and engage with other users and...
2015 International Conference on Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL), 2015
E- learning is gaining more popularity due to thetechnological development and the personalizatio... more E- learning is gaining more popularity due to thetechnological development and the personalization it offers forlearners and organizations. Most e-learning platforms supportgroup work and collaboration between learners, which is adesirable educational practice. Thus, virtual team members mustbe flexible to achieve their goals in a cooperative environment. Inorder to improve learners experiences, and to encouragecollaboration between them, we propose and validate a theoreticalmodel that predicts the effect of trust on learners’ forgivenesswhen a conflict occurs in a virtual team.
Based on an offline and online survey of 967 people of Turkish origin living in these countries, ... more Based on an offline and online survey of 967 people of Turkish origin living in these countries, we test how legacy and social media have influenced the participation of the members of the Turkish diaspora in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands in the mid-2013 protests in Turkey's social movement referred to as Gezi Park. This study also investigates how living in Europe can influence the behavior and attitudes of the sampled individuals from the Turkish Diaspora of Germany, Belgium and Netherlands during the period when the Gezi Park demonstration took place. Our results make it clear that social media were used by those who supported the protest movement, while those who opposed the protest movement primarily used or followed traditional sources of media, including Turkish and European television. Furthermore, supporters amongst the diaspora for the Gezi-protests were primarily active in accruing social capital through bonding and social networking among those who belong to the Turkish diaspora under the guise of the Gezi Park protests. Finally, a significant number of the supporters of the protests in the three countries took part in several different means of supporting the movement, including: disseminating awareness about the Gezi protests through social media, engaging in meetings, and in some cases, even severing contact with friends and acquaintances who did not share their support for the protest movement.
Media and migration by Roya Imani Giglou
Research on social protest movements raises many complicated methodological issues. This article ... more Research on social protest movements raises many complicated methodological issues. This article systematically explains the methodological quandaries the authors confronted when studying demonstrations and online and offline activism by ethnic Turks in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands in support of the Gezi Park protesters in Turkey. It explains how participants were recruited and surveyed in this complex and extremely sensitive environment. It offers lessons learned that can be applied to other studies involving surveys of ethnic minorities engaged in social protest movements. More generally, they may also apply to surveys of any vulnerable population about sensitive issues.
Keywords: Gezi, methodology, survey, recruitment, social movement research, online and offline data collection
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Papers by Roya Imani Giglou
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Keywords: Gezi, methodology, survey, recruitment, social movement research, online and offline data collection
Keywords: Gezi, methodology, survey, recruitment, social movement research, online and offline data collection