Visual Resistance in Platform Societies: Video Activism in Türkiye’s Feminist and Environmental Movements
- 1 Faculty of Communication, Fırat University, Elazığ, Türkiye
Abstract
This article investigates how feminist and environmental movements in Türkiye mobilize video activism to produce visual resistance within digital platforms. Drawing on the four-part analytical framework developed by Eder, Hartmann, and Tedjasukmana (2025) and Huber (2020) —platform tactics, affective and formal dimensions, manifest meanings, and latent meanings—the study conducts qualitative content analysis of six selected videos. The findings reveal that video activism functions not merely as message transmission but as a layered practice of algorithmic navigation, emotional mobilization, and symbolic construction. Feminist and ecological struggles converge through multimodal tactics that stitch together plurality and solidarity. The study contributes to the literature by situating Turkish video activism within both local political dynamics and global digital infrastructures, offering theoretical insight and empirical grounding for future research.
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