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"I hope it doesn’t go viral: Journalism and sexist attacks in digital age". A video investigation by Çiçek Tahaoğlu

The documentary film “I hope it doesn’t go viral: Journalism and sexist attacks in the digital age” was produced by MLSA, Media and Law Studies Association, a Turkish non-profit founded in late 2017, in response to the urgent and growing need to go back to democracy in Turkey.

Cristiana Scoppa by Cristiana Scoppa
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The investigation by journalist Çiçek Tahaoğlu, together with cinematographer Yiğit Akbıyık, explores cyberbullying against Turkish women and LGBTQIA+ journalists on online platforms and is the first journalistic reportage dedicated to this subject in the country. It includes interviews with journalists Sibel Yükler, Rengin Arslan, Burcu Karakaş, Yıldız Tar, Abeer Sady and psychologist Aslı Avşar.

During the launch of the film in Istanbul on March 29, Sibel Yükler noted that: “Online violence against women and LGBTQI+ journalists is rarely talked about. At times, my heart races as I send news to my editor that are related to this issue or could cause controversies. My expression ‘I hope it doesn’t go viral,’ which gave the documentary its title, is actually a symptom of these heart palpitations”.

Journalist Burcu Karakaş who works for the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle Turkish, said: “As the number of followers on social media increases, you can reach more people; but at the same time, the discrediting campaigns rise. For example, with the women’s rights and LGBTQI+ movement growing by the day, the attacks against these movements rise, too”.

“Journalists should not shy away from protecting themselves psychologically”, said psychologist Aslı Avşar. “When journalists undervalue cyberbullying, which is a form of violence, they are trying to suppress the violence, thinking it is temporary. But this does not make the violence pass. It can turn into a trauma that will come up again in the future and bear consequences on the long run”.

Additional information on the situation of press freedom in Turkey is available on the MLSA website.
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Cristiana Scoppa

Cristiana Scoppa

Cristiana Scoppa was born in Rome, from a father from Naples, the metropolis on the Mediterranean Sea, and a mother, from German Kiel, a port on the cold North Sea. The union of these two cultural hemispheres – Northern Europe and the Mediterranean – was the starting point for Cristiana's explorations of the world, which also led her to the African continent. She learned the profession of journalism as a direct feminist practice, after joining the editorial staff of the history-and-politics focused monthly magazine 'Noidonne' (We, the women), at the age of 26. Since then, she has collaborated with various institutions and women's organizations, dealing with project design and management, communications, advocacy and participatory training. She was also a member of BabelMed's team which helped her sharpen her understanding(s) of the Mediterranean. She has a wonderful dog, Stella, who accompanies her almost everywhere.

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