“An Analysis over Social Media Regarding Domestic Violence against Women in Turkey”
Ozlem Akguc Cetinkaya

Abstract
In this study, that covers an assessment on Turkey regarding “domestic violence against women”, an analysis was performed by the content analysis method based on the fact that the women use social media channel for their confessions especially regarding being subject of domestic violence. The thing intended with this study, that is based on categorization of data obtained from the web site called “itiraf.com” –which frequently gives place to confessions of women regarding being subject of domestic violence- and on analysis through content analysis, is to perform a different “domestic violence” analysis with the help of data to be obtained from social media where the women can express themselves without being ashamed and without feeling under pressure by the presupposition that it is hard to confess violence even to closest ones in countries such as Turkey where traditional patriarchal structure prevails. By the study, in addition to some demographical data, results relevant to the type of domestic violence against women, the source of violence and the attitudes of women as the result of violence were obtained.

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