This practice-based project examines how feminist movements in Turkey have mobilized digital media under conditions where civic documentation and archiving are often criminalized over the last three decades. Feminist groups have used audiovisual media to challenge gender-based violence, assert visibility, and build collective memory. Yet much of this digital material remains dispersed, vulnerable, and at risk of disappearance. The project aims to bring these fragments together, highlighting how media technologies shape feminist activism and safeguarding this history through a curated digital timeline.
Drawing on feminist media theory, intersectionality, digital ethnography, and data curation principles, the project will analyze and organize digital visual data spanning three decades of feminist activism in Turkey. It seeks to illuminate how media technologies influence feminist struggles and to amplify the voices of historically marginalized groups through alternative media historiography. The primary output will be a publicly accessible digital timeline, with research findings disseminated through articles, conferences, workshops, and public media formats.
Drawing on feminist media theory, intersectionality, digital ethnography, and data curation principles, the project will analyze and organize digital visual data spanning three decades of feminist activism in Turkey. It seeks to illuminate how media technologies influence feminist struggles and to amplify the voices of historically marginalized groups through alternative media historiography. The primary output will be a publicly accessible digital timeline, with research findings disseminated through articles, conferences, workshops, and public media formats.